Sport must show leadership amidst climate crisis: UN deputy chief
Athletes are among the most influential people on the planet and together with their managers, fans and others involved in organized sport,…
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What can the UN do? 5 of your questions answered
The current war in Ukraine, following the Russian invasion, has sparked all sorts of questions about the United Nations, particularly the role…
Ukraine’s President calls on Security Council to act for peace, or ‘dissolve’ itself
In an impassioned address to the Security Council that evoked the ashen destruction wrought during the Second World War, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on…
UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees
Reacting to the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Secretary-General insisted that unless governments everywhere reassess…
Bucha killings raise ‘serious’ questions about possible war crimes: Bachelet
Senior UN officials have echoed the Secretary-General’s call for an independent investigation into the killing of scores of civilians in the Ukrainian…
UNODC Executive Director visits the frontlines of the Asia-Pacific drug trade
© UNODC Chiang Rai (Thailand), 4 April 2022 – The so-called Golden Triangle area, bordering Myanmar, Thailand and the Lao People’s Democratic…
Interview: Slave trade reparations ‘essential’
400th anniversary of the first ship that brought the first Africans to the British colony of Virginia. We mark that as the…
UN rights experts raise alarm over Russia’s ‘choking’ media clampdown at home
The recent adoption by Russia of a punitive “fake war news” law is an alarming move by the Government to gag and…
Ukraine: UN Secretary-General calls for probe into Bucha killings
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday called for an independent investigation into the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha,…
First Person: ‘I fear I will never see my husband again’
Nataliia Vladimirova fled her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the first day of the Russian invasion, on 24 February, with her four-year-old…