Myanmar quake: UN calls for urgent protection for vulnerable women and girls

This article is published in association with United Nations. Friday’s devastating earthquakes in Myanmar not only caused mass casualties and widespread destruction, they also deepened long-standing gender inequalities – leaving millions of women and girls at heightened risk, UN aid agencies warned on Wednesday. As emergency aid trickles in, women and girls who were already vulnerable […]

Local staff ‘particularly vulnerable’ to detention, as UN calls for their release

This article is published in association with United Nations. Staff members of the United Nations around the world who are recruited locally are “particularly vulnerable” to detention and should be released and allowed to go home according to the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. In the last year alone 101 UN staff members were arrested or detained […]

Security Council: UN calls for safe, unimpeded passage of aid to Ukraine

This article is published in association with European Investment Bank.

This article is published in association with United Nations. The Security Council in New York on Tuesday debated the latest barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks that have targeted multiple cities across Ukraine in recent days. The acting UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told ambassadors that the human suffering during Russia’s on-going invasion “continues at intolerable […]

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