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General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence 21 March 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe A view of the General Assembly in session. (file) The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a landmark resolution on the promotion of “safe, secure and trustworthy” artificial intelligence (AI) systems that will also benefit sustainable development for all…

Armed groups continue terror campaign across Burkina Faso

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Armed groups continue terror campaign across Burkina Faso 21 March 2024 © CIFOR/Ollivier Girard A woman fetches water by bicycle in near Boromo in Burkina Faso. Large parts of Burkina Faso are being terrorized by armed groups and the rampant insecurity is “beyond alarming”, said the UN human rights chief on Thursday following a brief visit to the country…

Stories from the UN Archive: Poetic traditions at the UN

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: Poetic traditions at the UN 21 March 2024 United Nations Heba Mostafa Mostafa Rizk of Egypt at the closing of the work of the Third Committee of the 77th General Assembly. (file) On World Poetry Day, marked on 21 March, and #ThrowbackThursday, we looked at some poetry in motion in the General Assembly’s Third Committee on social, humanitarian and…

World Down Syndrome Day 2024

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home World Down Syndrome Day 2024 21 March 2024 Building E, 1st floor, Bar Serpent Area Join UN Geneva to celebrate…

Gaza: Less than 1 in 2 UN aid missions allowed into northern zones this month

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Less than 1 in 2 UN aid missions allowed into northern zones this month 20 March 2024 © UNRWA Children in the Gaza Strip receive food as supplies continue to dwindle. Less than half of the UN aid convoys planned for Gaza’s hunger-ravaged north have made it so far this month, despite repeated appeals from the international community to ramp up relief to more than one million people on…

UN report details ‘climate of fear’ in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN report details ‘climate of fear’ in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine 20 March 2024 UNOCHA/Oleksandr Ratushniak Deminers clear a previously occupied area near the front line between Mykolaiv and Kherson in southern Ukraine. Russia has instilled a pervasive atmosphere of fear in the occupied regions of Ukraine, perpetrating egregious violations of international humanitarian and human…

‘Currently unsafe to return’ to Belarus, Human Rights Council hears

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Currently unsafe to return’ to Belarus, Human Rights Council hears 20 March 2024 Unsplash/Angie Bob Protestors at the March of Peace and Independence in Minsk, Belarus in 2020. (file) With the number of political prisoners growing and a shutdown of civic space, people in Belarus are being deprived of their rights to freedom of expression, assembly and more, a new UN human rights…

UNRWA review panel presents interim findings to Secretary-General

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UNRWA review panel presents interim findings to Secretary-General 20 March 2024 UN Photo/Manuel Elías Catherine Colonna, Chair of the Independent Review Group on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), briefs reporters at UN Headquarters. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has received the interim findings of an independent panel conducting an assessment of UNRWA, the UN…

Accountability essential to counter human rights abuse in DPR Korea

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Accountability essential to counter human rights abuse in DPR Korea 20 March 2024 Unsplash/Micha Brändli Flags of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea fly in Pyongyang. The UN’s deputy human rights chief on Wednesday underscored the need to ensure accountability for ongoing serious violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), stressing that it would also benefit…

Conflict driving hunger crisis in Sudan, UN officials tell Security Council

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Conflict driving hunger crisis in Sudan, UN officials tell Security Council 20 March 2024 © UNOCHA/Ala Kheir Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan due to the ongoing conflict. Eleven months of brutal fighting is driving a hunger crisis in Sudan, with some areas likely to experience catastrophic levels of food insecurity by the lean season in May, the UN Security…