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General Assembly approves $3.59 billion UN budget for 2024
24 December 2023
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The Secretariat building with flags of Member States in the foreground, at UN Headquarters, in New York.
The General Assembly has approved a $3.59 billion budget for the United Nations for 2024, including the establishment of a special account to finance the Organization’s peacebuilding fund…
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INTERVIEW: Actor Natalie Portman celebrates women and girls’ voices
23 December 2023
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Academy-Award-winning actress and activist Natalie Portman (left) spoke to Melissa Fleming, UN Under-Secretary General for Global Communications, about gender equality.
Investing more in women and girls’ education, safety and economic and social empowerment will speed the drive towards gender parity…
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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
22 December 2023
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Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by a spokesperson and a representative from the World Health Organization.
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Dr. Diana Rojas Alvarez, Team Lead on Arboviruses, Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention Department, World Health Organization (…
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World News in Brief: UN chief shocked by Czech mass shooting, UNICEF appeal for West and Central Africa, world leaders urged to heed climate science
22 December 2023
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Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
The UN Secretary-General has reiterated his full solidarity with the people and Government of the Czech Republic in the wake of the mass shooting at the Charles…
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Humanitarian ceasefire only way to end Gaza ‘nightmare’: Guterres
22 December 2023
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Secretary-General António Guterres (at podium) briefs reporters on the situation in Gaza. At right is Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed hope that a Security Council resolution to get more aid into Gaza, adopted on…
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Security Council adopts key resolution on Gaza crisis
22 December 2023
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A view of the UN Security Council as members vote in favour of the draft resolution on the situation in the Middle East on 22 December 2023.
The Security Council has adopted a resolution on the ongoing crisis in Gaza, with 13 votes in favour, and the US and Russia abstaining. The resolution, among…
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Stories from the UN Archive: Audrey Hepburn on children’s rights
21 December 2023
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In 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted a Convention on the Rights of the Child without a vote. Seated from left to right are Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights Jan Martenson, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Audrey Hepburn and UNICEF chief James Grant.
Following the Second World War,…
