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South Asia Summit on Education for Peace today at the United Nations Conference Centre

The Sustainable Development Council (SDC), in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Administration, Thammasat University, successfully concluded the highly anticipated…
United Nations
  • December 22, 2024

Syria’s new ‘flame of hope’ must not be extinguished: Guterres

That’s the warning from UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaking to reporters in New York on Thursday morning. He said there…
United Nations
  • December 22, 2024

World News in Brief: Deaths and injuries mount in Ukraine, refugees from Sudan, Vanuatu quake response

In October and November alone, there were more than 2,180 civilian deaths and injuries, while nearly 40,000 people have been…
United Nations
  • December 22, 2024

‘Dying hungry and in pain’: An increasingly likely outcome in Gaza

Speaking to correspondents via video link on Thursday, the senior OCHA official underscored the grim reality facing over two million…
United Nations
  • December 22, 2024

Staggering scale of Sudan crisis ‘demands sustained and urgent attention’

Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations at the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…
United Nations
  • December 22, 2024

Humanity’s fate can’t be left to algorithms, UN chief tells Security Council

Addressing ministers and ambassadors, António Guterres warned that rapid developments in AI are outpacing humanity’s ability to govern it, raising…
United Nations
  • December 22, 2024

Syria: Rights investigators call for protection of evidence, including mass grave sites

A team from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Syria visited former prisons and detention centres, including the…
United Nations
  • December 22, 2024

Security and economic woes plague West Africa, as key elections loom

Leonardo Santos Simão, highlighted upcoming presidential elections in Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea-Bissau, and the adoption of constitutional reforms amid a…
United Nations
  • December 22, 2024

Syria transition may fail if support lifeline is delayed, says IOM chief

“We are not promoting large-scale returns; the communities frankly are just not ready to absorb the people who are displaced…
United Nations
  • December 22, 2024

Sudan’s El Fasher siege: UN humanitarians killed as refugee crisis intensifies

In a new report, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) has detailed the catastrophic humanitarian situation unfolding in El Fasher,…