The premier international gathering on the future of cities wrapped up on Thursday in Abu Dhabi with delegates urging action on all aspects of rapid urbanization, recognizing that an increasingly urbanized world is a ‘transformative force’ that can be harnessed and steered...
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A database of 112 businesses connected to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory has been hailed by an independent human rights expert as “an important initial step towards accountability...
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Promoting education for adolescent girls is an “indispensable foundation for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”, Secretary-General António Guterres declared at the launch event of the Drive for 5 education initiative at UN...
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On Sunday, the first day of the tenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF10) in Abu Dhabi, Ugochi Daniels, the UN Resident Coordinator and Mehmet Emin Akdogan, Chief of...
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Attacks on health facilities in Yemen’s Marib province, east of the capital Sana’a, have left some 15,000 people – many of them displaced from other parts of the country –...
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Unprecedented global demand for face masks and other protective equipment fuelled by the coronavirus epidemic has created potentially dangerous shortages for those who need them most, the World Health Organization...
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Despite the loss of its last stronghold in Syria and the death of its leader, ISIL “remains at the centre of the transnational terrorism threat”, a senior UN official told the Security Council...
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Contributed by Japan government, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) of Islamic Republic of Iran and under technical supervision of Road, Housing and Urban Development...
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“People had suddenly the impression that the virus was in the air and…there is this cloud of the virus” that can cause infection, she said. “This is not the situation....
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A United States plan released this week to resolve the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is “lopsided” and will only entrench the occupation, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday. President Donald...
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