When world leaders, numbering over 150, make their annual political pilgrimage to address the General Assembly in the third week of September, the security at the world body is exceptionally tight. And this year is no exception. After two years of on-again and off-again lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN
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Rohingya in no-man’s land seek UN protection
A Rohingya community taking refuge in a strip of land along the Bangladesh-Myanmar frontier has called on the United Nations to ensure their safety amid a recent string of violent incidents near the border. On Monday, residents of the Konapara camp, situated in no-man's land along the Tumbru border in Bandarban's
Cut revenue, arms supply for Myanmar military, UN urges nations
345 million people marching toward starvation: UN
The U.N. food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing "a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude," with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation - and 70 million pushed closer to starvation by the war in Ukraine. David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, told the
Act now on climate front, listen to countries like Bangladesh: Bachelet
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has said the international community "must heed" the voice of specially affected countries like Bangladesh and act to deploy every possible resource to make the human right to a healthy environment a reality for all. "Now is the time for action. We
Bachelet assures UN’s continued efforts to ensure safe repatriation of Rohingyas
Acknowledging Bangladesh's great difficulty in dealing with the Rohingya crisis, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has assured the UN's continued efforts to realise safe and voluntary return of the Rohingyas to Myanmar. She made the assurance when Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said that protracted stay of
The Hunger Factory: The miracle of the sudden rise and fall of food prices, Part- I
The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined “significantly” in July, with major cereal and vegetable oil prices recording double-digit percentage declines. The data, released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 5 August, adds the FAO Food Price Index averaged 140.9 points in July, down 8.6% from June,
UN’s Education Summit: An opportunity to create a bottom-up global governance
The upcoming summit on Education, part of the UN Secretary General’s ambitious agenda, can truly bring accountability and participation to the inevitably new ways education will be imparted in the future. With scorching temperatures, uncontrolled flames and floods devastating our planet, millions of people are realizing that we are all going
UN food price index dropped in July for fourth month
UN announces $5m more flood relief for Bangladesh
The United Nations (UN) has announced an additional allocation of $5 million as relief to meet the immediate needs of families caught in the deadly flooding in northeastern Bangladesh.After a coordinated appeal by the UN country team in Bangladesh, Martin Griffiths, under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, made