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Just 13 per cent of people in low-income countries, mostly brown and black, are vaccinated, says Winnie Byanyima

The green deal: Renewable energy became the new buzzword in 2021

A year when several parts of the world bore the brunt of extreme weather conditions

Past experience can help reclaim degraded land

Whether China and Russia will use their veto power to block the measure or abstain remains to be seen

In Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of five will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year, according to the UN

Tedros, a former govt minister from Ethiopia, has directed WHO throughout its management of the global response to Covid-19 and withstood occasionally withering criticism over its multiple missteps

China's foreign minister met with the UN's top human rights official on her visit to the country and shared with her that China opposes politicising human rights and imposing double standards

The head of the UN's World Food Program is telling billionaires it's time to step up as the global threat of food insecurity rises with Russia's war in Ukraine

Rights activists said the AIHRC that was abolished by the Taliban was not perfect but it mattered enormously to have a place to demand justice

World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said growing hunger will add at least 47 million people to the 276 million marching to starvation before Russia's invasion of its smaller neighbour

Addressing the United Nations Security Council, Blinken appealed to Russia to stop blockading Ukrainian ports

According to the Global Report on Food Crisis released earlier this month, 193 million people were acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries and territories in 2021

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a ministerial meeting on the escalating food security crisis, which has been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, that there is still a long way to go

The rate of urbanisation needs to be moderated in a way that the influx of population is not concentrated in bigger cities only

The Taliban-led government has ordered female staff members of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) to wear the hijab.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged the international community to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and make it a top priority.

Poor people with few assets, limited access to credit, informal employment and low wages were particularly severely hit by containment measures introduced during the pandemic

More than 1.5 million people have received health care support, and around 352,000 people have been provided with clean water and hygiene products

About 1.5 million people have received food assistance over the past seven months in Northern Ethiopia. However, this is only about a quarter of the number of people who needed assistance, OCHA said

China and Russia both have veto power and say they want to see new talks and not more punishment for the North