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Agnès Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

“Urgent action” needed by Philippines over “spiralling” violations

31 July 2017
General News

The government of the Philippines needs to take “urgent action” to address a “spiralling” series of human rights violations, including the summary execution of children.

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Bakhodir Burkhanov, head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) office for the Pacific.
UNIC Canberra/Julia Dean.

Tuvalu launches first early warning system in Pacific

24 July 2017
General News

The launch of an early warning system in Tuvalu will better inform residents of the Pacific island nation about oncoming cyclones and other disasters, according to a senior UN official in the region.

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Gugulethu Jemaine Nyathi from Zimbabwe studies engineering at Jiangsu University in China.
UN News/Dianne Penn

Multilingualism promotes respect: Zimbabwean student in China

24 July 2017
General News

Growing up in a multilingual home has taught a young woman from Zimbabwe to value all cultures.

Gugulethu Jemaine Nyathi said having parents who speak different languages has served her well as she pursues an engineering degree at Jiangsu University in China.

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Afghan migrants freshly arrived at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman, Pakistan.
UNHCR/ Chaman, Pakistan/August, 2015

One million undocumented Afghans to get right to stay in Pakistan

21 July 2017
General News

Pakistan’s plan to register up to one million undocumented Afghans living in the country is set to bring “much needed relief” for many refugees unable to return home amid ongoing insecurity, the UN said on Friday.

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North Korea’s food production hit by the worst drought since 2001.
FAO/Cristina Coslet

DPRK drought affecting food production: FAO

20 July 2017
General News

Food production in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been severely damaged by the worst drought in the country since 2001, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Thursday.

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UN Resident Coordinator based in Delhi, Yuri Afanasiev, at UN Radio Studio in New York.
UN News/Matt Wells

Education, women’s empowerment “top priorities” for UN in India

19 July 2017
General News

In order to meet the challenges of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), India should prioritize women’s empowerment and educatio

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Ms. Pratibha Mehta, UN Resident Coordinator in Tajikistan, addresses the audience at the High-level event on “Human security and its contribution to Agenda 2030.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

“Improvements are astonishing” in “very poor” region of Tajikistan

13 July 2017
General News

“Astonishing” improvements came about when five UN agencies joined forces in an integrated manner to help transform one impoverished valley in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan.

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Members of the Guatemalan contingent of MINUSTAH.
UN Photo/Marco Domino (file)

UN Gender Focus: gender balance in peacekeeping, women in Uganda and Rakhine women

13 July 2017
UN Gender Focus

Greater gender balance needed in peacekeeping, says UN chief

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Myanmar Rohingyas displaced by violence in 2012 in the village of In Bar Yi, Rakhine State.
Julia Wallace/IRIN

Myanmar: Muslim, Rakhine women bond over literacy classes

11 July 2017
General News

Women belonging to different religious minorities in the restive Rakhine State in Myanmar are mending fences as they learn to read, write and sew, the UN said on Friday.

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