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UNGA holds World Social Summit in 2025
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 28th Feb. UN General Assembly on Tuesday has adopted a resolution that decides to convene the World Social Summit in 2025.
The summit will address the gaps and recommit to the Copenhagen…
World body wants strengthened, empowered Palestinian govt
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 28th Feb. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Tuesday said that the UN wants a strengthened and empowered Palestinian government in response to the resignation of the Palesytinian Prime Minister…
OCHA says UN aid convoy blocked outside Al Amal hospital in Khan Younis
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 28th Feb. UN relief agencies operating in Gaza on Tuesday voiced deep frustration over aid access restrictions placed by the Israeli military, after ambulances carrying patients away from a…
Rights expert deplores harassment of anti-war campaigner, pressure on judges in Russia
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 27th Feb. Top human rights expert on Russia Mariana Katzarova on Monday condemned efforts by the Russian judiciary to silence anti-war dissident Orleg Orlov.
According to reports, prosecutors…
UN reports fighting continues in eastern DR Congo
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 27th Feb. UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric on Monday said that the fghting between Government forces and the M23 rebel group has began again in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.…
UN Environment Assembly unites to combat ‘triple planetary crisis’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 27th Feb. United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6 on Monday opened the meeting of the “world’s parliament on the environment” in Nairobi with a clear call for stronger global action to…
UNRWA reports aid delivery is half in Gaza since January
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 27th Feb. UN agency on Palestine refugees UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said on Monday that very little humanitarian aid has entered into Gaza this month, with a 50 per cent reduction compared…
UNSG launches rights protection pledge, focused on war in Gaza, Ukraine
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 27th Feb. UN head António Guterres on Monday warned that an all-out Israeli offensive on Rafah would be the end of UN-led humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza and he called the…
Guterres says deadlock over disarmament ‘not acceptable’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 27th Feb. UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday expressed his concern over the deadlock on the disarmament as the UN Conference on Disarmament is consistently failing to deliver.
He stated…
UNAIDS voices concern at ‘discriminatory’ court verdict on LGBTQ
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 27th Feb. UN Programme on HIV/AIDS UNAIDS on Monday expressed deep concern over St. Vincent and the Grenadines after a recent High Court verdict that upholds discriminatory laws against the…