UN rights experts urge Uganda to halt pre-election violence, arrests
UNITED Nations human rights experts have called on Uganda to rein in violent security forces and drop charges against political
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Code red: UN calls for urgent shift to planet-friendly development
MEGAN ROWLING UNDER huge pressure from COVID-19, climate change and natural destruction, warning lights for the planet and societies are
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UN criticised for holding back review of troubled Congo Ebola response
PHILIP KLEINFELD and BEN PARKER A review by leading aid agencies of Ebola operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Ethiopia shifts focus from war to economy, U.N. worries about Tigray
JACKSON NJEHIA and STEPHANIE NEBEHAY ETHIOPIA’S prime minister has shifted his focus away from war, opening a cross-border highway to
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Protect Journalists, Protect the Truth
In the past fourteen years (2006-2019), close to 1,200 journalists have been killed for reporting the news and bringing information to the
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UN in New York cancels in-person meetings due to COVID-19 infections
THE United Nations has cancelled all in-person meetings at its New York headquarters after five people in Niger’s U.N. mission
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Child malnutrition reaches new highs in parts of Yemen – U.N. survey
PARTS of Yemen are seeing their highest levels of acute malnutrition in children, heightening warnings that the country is approaching
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Why the UN must set up an independent body to tackle sexual abuse
ANDERS KOMPASS SIX years ago, I became a UN whistleblower, intervening to stop the sexual abuse of children by soldiers
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Power, poverty, and aid: The mix that fuelled sex abuse claims in Congo
ROBERT FLUMMERFELT and NELLIE PEYTON STRATEGIES put in place to stop such abuses largely failed during the outbreak that swept
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