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VIENNA – The coronavirus pandemic is pushing more people into drug use, while illicit cultivation could also get a boost, the UN said, warning that the crisis’s fallout was likely to be felt “for years to come”. The Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which each year ...

Refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region ride a bus going to the Village 8 temporary shelter, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty/File) GENEVA – The UN rights chief called on Monday for “concerted action” to help recover from the worst global deterioration ...

Photo – AFP GENEVA – The pandemic has pushed over 100 million more workers into poverty, the UN said Wednesday, after working hours plummeted and access to good quality jobs evaporated. In a report, the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) cautioned that the labour market crisis created by the pandemic ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is seen on a screen delivering her speech remotely at the opening of a UN Human Rights Council emergency meeting on occupied Palestinian territory including East Jerusalem in Geneva on May 27, 2021. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) GENEVA – ...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 20, 2021 Malian Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and his delegation attend the inauguration of the new river port of Konna in central Mali. – Mali’s transitional President Bah Ndaw and Malian Prime Minister Moctar Ouane have resigned after the military arrested them ...

File Photo : Cristina Quicler/AFP UNITED NATIONS (Dunya News) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate end to tensions following an Israeli aggression on Gaza. “I am deeply shocked by the continued air and artillery bombardment by the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza,” Guterres said of the ...

General Debate – the United Nations NEW YORK – In his address to the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi laid bare the Israeli atrocities during the past few days, saying that, “Driven by arrogance and emboldened by impunity, Israel has mounted a relentless onslaught on the occupied and ...

Mahmud Hams / AFP/Getty Images / File  GAZA – UN-run schools in Gaza look very little like places of learning these days in the midst of a conflict between Israel and Palestinian armed groups that is in its second week. Laundry is hung on makeshift washing lines, mothers scrub infants ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Reuters / File Photo NEW YORK – The “spiraling escalation” in Israel and Palestine must be brought to a rapid end, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. Guterres “is deeply saddened to learn of increasingly large numbers of casualties, including children, from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, ...

Reuters Photo LONDON – More than 200 civil society groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, called on the UN Security Council on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar to help protect civilians peacefully protesting a military coup. Since the military seized power on Feb 1 and ousted an ...