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The Progress Declaration passed by a recorded vote of 162 in favour to one against, with no abstentions. It commits governments to strengthen national road safety systems,…
The story in 60 secondsEvery electric vehicle, wind turbine, solar panel, smart phone; they all depend on minerals extracted from the earth.As countries accelerate the transition…
“Rapes, gang rapes, violent assaults and killings of civilians are a common feature of M23’s modus operandi,” the experts said in a press release. “While these…
Diplomats stood alongside city officials and neighbourhood volunteers, dishing out plates rather than platitudes, in a small but pointed answer to a question the UN spent Monday asking…
The warning comes in the latest edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report issued on Tuesday by five United Nations agencies. Estimates show that 7.8 per cent of…
“Decades of rapidly expanding space activity have shown that each launch leaves an environmental footprint, and it can take a long time to understand the impact…
Dozens of people, mostly protesters but also law enforcement personnel, have reportedly been killed since June ahead of the vote for the Legislative Assembly on 27…
“When I started as a boy, it was very, very dangerous,” he says. “People were not surprised if somebody got killed in a racing car.”That world…
He warned that without international cooperation the technology could widen global inequality instead of advancing sustainable development. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial…
For more than a year, six schools established by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) have been inaccessible, and another six have been closed, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New…