UN News Centre
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5 ways UN Peacekeeping partnerships drive peace and development
2022-05-28Every day, United Nations peacekeepers work to protect millions of vulnerable people in increasingly dangerous places in the world’s most fragile political contexts.
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Chile: Apology for sterilizing HIV-positive women in moment of ‘reproductive justice’
2022-05-27The head of the UN agency leading the fight against HIV/AIDS, welcomed on Friday a public apology from Chile on a landmark case of involuntary sterilization of women living with HIV.
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Rights office welcomes Zambia’s pledge to abolish the death penalty
2022-05-27Zambia’s plan to abolish the death penalty adds to the growing global chorus against the practice, the UN Human Rights Office, OHCHR, said on Friday in welcoming the decision.
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5 things you should know about the UN Ocean Conference, a chance to save the planet’s largest ecosystem
2022-05-27The Ocean is the planet’s largest ecosystem, regulating the climate, and providing livelihoods for billions. But its health is in danger. The second UN Ocean Conference, due to take place in June, will be an important opportunity to redress the damage that mankind continues to inflict on marine life and livelihoods.
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‘Think resilience’ to protect against climate and other catastrophes
2022-05-27More countries must “think resilience”, and urgently adopt and improve early warning systems to reduce risks from an increasing number of disasters across the world, a UN disaster forum concluded on Friday.
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States urged to do more to help Haitians fleeing insecurity by sea
2022-05-27Amid growing insecurity and gang violence in Haiti, the numbers of desperate people resorting to risky sea crossings has sharply increased. On Friday the UN called for regional Governments to step up protection for refugees.
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Ukrainian refugees arrive in Poland ‘in a state of distress and anxiety’
2022-05-27With more than 3.5 million people having fled to Poland since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, continues to scale up its operations to provide aid to arrivals, the agency’s spokesperson said on Friday.
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Resolve the conflict, don’t just manage it, top envoy tells Israelis, Palestinians
2022-05-27Israelis and Palestinians must push beyond the paradigm of managing the conflict and move towards resolving it, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Thursday, as he expressed particular concern that dynamics in the occupied West Bank could spiral out of control “at any time”.
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‘Protracted political impasse’ further polarizing Libya
2022-05-26Despite UN efforts, political, economic and security deadlock continues in Libya, the UN political affairs chief told the Security Council on Thursday, adding that human rights there have also deteriorated.
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Peacekeepers’ Day ceremony honours service and sacrifice of UN blue helmets
2022-05-26The United Nations paid tribute to the men and women serving under its flag in some of the most dangerous places in the world during a ceremony in New York on Thursday to mark the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.