UN rights expert condemns ‘systematic’ war-time mass destruction of homes
An independent UN housing rights expert condemned on Tuesday the arbitrary destruction of civilian homes and infrastructure during conflicts, comparing the ongoing bombardment of...
New Data Show Massive, Wider-than-Expected Global Gender Gap
The global gender gap for women in the workplace is far wider than previously thought, a groundbreaking new World Bank Group report shows. When...
Accelerated by COVID and AI, Global Digital Landscape Remains Uneven
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about unprecedented acceleration of digital transformation across the globe – with spikes in data traffic, app usage, IT sector growth,...
Gaza: ‘Children are dying from hunger’
“Hunger has reached catastrophic levels,” Jamie McGoldrick, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told journalists at UN Headquarters on Wednesday, describing...
BRICS expresses interests of global majority
Russia took the rotating presidency of the BRICS group in 2024. Yury Ushakov, Russian presidential foreign policy aide, has granted TASS an interview in...
Russia confirmed World’s first ever combat test of hypersonic glide vehicle
Following multiple reports from Russian and Western sources that the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile was used by Russian forces to support ongoing operations in...
‘Mega election’ 2024 could be a landmark for democracy
Dozens of elections taking place this year around the world will likely be “free from hatred” and respect the will of the people, but...
North Gaza aid mission reveals more infants may die from hunger
A rare opportunity to deliver desperately needed supplies to hospitals in northern Gaza for the first time in months has been welcomed by UN...
Gaza war may fuel much wider Middle East crisis
Negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza continued in Egypt for a second day on Monday as the UN’s top rights official warned that the...
General Assembly President condemns ‘catastrophic, unconscionable, shameful’ conditions in Gaza
Ambassadors in the UN General Assembly again discussed on Monday the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the critical work of the UN agency...