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UN Chief Calls For Major Reforms To Cut Costs And Improve Efficiency

Amid financial strain and growing global challenges, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is pushing for wide-ranging structural reforms to enhance the world body’s effectiveness

2025-05-15 03:21:52 0 Comment 7134 view

Journalism Facing New Threats From AI And Censorship

Countries must do everything to ensure that free and independent news reporting can thrive, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday in a message to mark World Press Freedom Day

2025-05-06 02:44:57 0 Comment 10679 view

External Flow Of Weapons Into Sudan Must End, Insists UN’s Guterres

Two years to the day since Sudan’s brutal war erupted between rival generals who rejected the peaceful transition to civilian rule after the overthrow of Omar Al-Bashir, UN chief António Guterres insisted that the world “must not forget” the suffering of the country’s people

2025-04-18 00:56:09 0 Comment 14546 view

At Davos, UN-Sec-Gen Guterres Slams Backsliding On Climate Commitments

The world’s political and business elite present in Davos on Wednesday faced an uncompromising address from UN chief António Guterres

2025-01-24 13:32:22 0 Comment 20547 view

Syria Transition May Fail If Support Lifeline Is Delayed, Says IOM Chief

The head of the UN migration agency stressed on Friday that Syria is in no position to take back millions of Syrians following the fall of the Assad regime

2024-12-23 13:34:13 0 Comment 17833 view

Ahead Of G20 Summit In Brazil, Guterres Urges Bloc To Take The Lead On Peace, Climate And Other Challenges

The G20 group of developed economies must be at the forefront of global efforts to bring about peace, climate action, fairer international financial institutions and equitable access to emerging technologies

2024-11-19 02:32:08 0 Comment 22401 view

85 Percent Of Journalist Killings Go Unpunished

Between 2006 and 2024, over 1,700 journalists have been killed around the world

2024-11-07 05:21:33 0 Comment 21210 view

Kazan’s BRICS Summit Is A Head-On Challenge To Western Influence

As the BRICS summit unfolds in Kazan, Russia, the significance of this gathering transcends mere diplomatic niceties

2024-11-02 10:13:45 0 Comment 29879 view

Greenhouse Gases Surged To New Highs In 2023, Warns UN Weather Agency

New data released by the UN on Monday indicating that greenhouse gases have hit a record high shows once again that urgent action and not words is needed from the world’s major polluters to protect us all from climate change

2024-10-29 13:00:27 0 Comment 24662 view

Xi’s $51 Billion Pledge To Africa: A Landmark Deal Or A Debt Trap?

In a sweeping announcement at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit held on September 5, 2024 in Beijing

2024-10-29 12:35:11 0 Comment 25794 view

Investing In Clean Air Can Saves Lives And Combat Climate Change

The UN Secretary-General is marking ‘Clean Air Day’ with a call for global investment in solutions that tackle climate change and the increasing public health, environmental, and economic harm caused by air pollution

2024-09-09 04:37:51 0 Comment 22714 view

Planning Ahead: 5 Things To Know About The UN’s Landmark Summit Of The Future

Is there another way the world could be run? And in the face so much global turmoil, how can we make the future fairer?

2024-09-07 12:17:28 0 Comment 20550 view

UN Chief Urges Climate Justice For Pacific Nations Beset By Rising Oceans

Pacific island nations threatened by rising oceans, debt and geopolitical tensions can only fight back if international lenders agree to fairer terms for vital development funding and the world’s biggest polluters make a “massive increase” in contributions to address “climate chaos”

2024-08-23 06:25:29 0 Comment 24885 view

Retaliatory Spiral In Middle East Must End, Says UN Chief After Reported Strikes On Iran

NEW YORK, US: Following reports of alleged Israeli strikes inside Iran near a nuclear power station early Friday, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a new appeal to all parties to “stop the dangerous cycle of retaliation in the Middle East”.

 

2024-04-21 12:54:42 0 Comment 57678 view

‘Concerted Global Push’ For Sudan Ceasefire Is Essential: UN Sec-Gen

NEW YORK, US: “The world is forgetting about the people of Sudan” the UN chief warned on Monday, calling for a boost in humanitarian funding and a global push for peace to end a year of brutal fighting between rival militaries.

2024-04-17 19:20:50 0 Comment 58086 view

Human Ingenuity Can Help To Save Nature, Guterres Appeals On World Wildlife Day

NEW YORK, US: UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for action now to protect nature in his message to mark World Wildlife Day on Sunday.

2024-03-05 09:29:59 0 Comment 40282 view

Peace Is UN’s Raison D’être: UN Gec-Gen Guterres

NEW YORK, US: Around the globe, “peace is the missing piece” as conflicts rage, divisions grow and polarization deepens, the UN Secretary-General said on Wednesday.

 

2024-02-14 03:15:49 0 Comment 52230 view

Effort To Restart Iran Nuclear Deal ‘At A Standstill’ Security Council Hears

NEW YORK, US:The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed in 2015 lays out the rules for monitoring Iran’s domestic nuclear programme and paved the way for US sanctions to be lifted. It was agreed by Iran, the five permanent members of the Council (China, France, Russia the United Kingdom and the United States) plus Germany together with the European Union.

 

2024-01-01 14:40:58 0 Comment 52348 view

Climate Advocates Demand Stronger COP28 Language On Fossil Fuels

NEW YORK, US: The latest COP28 draft outcome text released to negotiators in Dubai Monday evening dropped a call to ‘phase out’ fossil fuels, prompting outcry from climate vulnerable countries and civil society.

 

2023-12-14 01:53:20 0 Comment 66148 view

At UK’s AI Summit, Guterres Says Risks Outweigh Rewards Without Global Oversight

NEW YORK, US: The UN Secretary-General on Thursday stressed that global oversight of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology should be based on the UN Charter’s core principles and ensure full respect for human rights.

 

2023-11-06 00:51:05 0 Comment 54132 view