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UN’s Five Major Leaders Skip Key Summit
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 (IPS) - The United Nations, over the last year, has been relentlessly promoting the upcoming Summit of the Future – scheduled for September 22-23—as a landmark event.
And rightly so.
UN deputy chief urges leaders to increase innovation amid global crises
- UN News
As world leaders gather at the UN for the Summit of the Future and General Assembly High-Level Week, the UN Deputy Secretary-General emphasised the critical role they can play driving innovation and change.
Showing resolve amid crisis: Guterres highlights UN impact in annual report
- UN News
In a time marked by escalating global crises – from rising poverty to the worsening climate emergency – the United Nations remains steadfast in its resolve to foster peace, advance sustainable development, and alleviate human suffering.
UN chief strongly condemns Mali terrorist attack
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for accountability following a “despicable” terrorist attack in Mali this week, his Spokesperson said on Thursday.
Whole generation of children ‘lost’ amid ongoing Gaza war, UNICEF warns
- UN News
Last October’s terror attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups on Israeli communities marked a devastating day for children, and the suffering has continued unabated, a senior UNICEF official said on Thursday.
‘Irrefutable’ need for global regulation of AI: UN experts
- UN News
The imperative for global regulation of the booming artificial intelligence field, or AI, is “irrefutable”, a new report from a UN expert group said on Thursday, adding that development and use of such a technology “cannot be left to the whims of markets alone”.
Security Council: Middle East envoy warns against escalation, highlights continued Israeli settlement activity
- UN News
The UN envoy supporting peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians voiced grave concern over the growing risk of widescale regional escalation during a briefing to the Security Council in New York on Wednesday.
UNAIDS: Rising debt in sub-Saharan Africa costing lives
- UN News
The report details how this debt crisis is jeopardising progress aimed at ending AIDS in Sub-Saharan African countries, which account for a significant majority of people living with HIV globally – 25.9 million people of the nearly 40 million total.
Russian attacks on Ukraine energy set to push 500,000 people out of country
- UN News
Repeated Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and power cuts in Ukraine will likely uproot an additional 500,000 people ahead of the coming winter, UN human rights monitors said on Thursday.
Mexican chinampas survive surrounded by threats
- Inter Press Service
SAN GREGORIO ATLAPULCO, Mexico, Sep 18 (IPS) - Mexican Crescencio Hernández orders radishes, herbs and lettuce for shipment to an alternative market in west-central Mexico City.
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