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Shamma Suhail Faris Al Mazrui, United Arab Emirates Youth Minister (left), Basma Baghal (righ). Source: UN News (file)

UAE focusing on making young people “positive agents”

1 October 2017
General News

Young people could be the “disruptive solution” to tackling the global challenge of violent extremism.

That’s the view of the Youth Minister in the United Arab Emirates, Shamma Suhail Faris Al Mazrui.

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Graphic from the Saudi Communication and Media Center explaining that women are allowed to drive.
Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UN Gender Focus: Saudi Arabian women, human trafficking, and youth and development

28 September 2017
UN Gender Focus

UN chief: Saudi Arabian women’s right to drive “an important first step”

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Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-second session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

At UN Assembly, United Arab Emirates stresses its resolve to fight terrorism

23 September 2017
Rejecting extremism and terrorism, a senior minister from the United Arab Emirates today told the United Nations General Assembly debate that the region must work together to eradicate the threat and its ideological roots.
Primary school children in class in Harar, Ethiopia.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

"Global Happiness Council" launched at UN Headquarters

20 March 2017
General News

By working to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (

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