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Inclusive peace in Afghanistan means ‘women at the centre’ urges UN deputy chief in Kabul

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United Nations Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed (Center -left) during a meeting with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani (center-right) in Kabul. (20th July 2019)

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Venezuela: European Parliament calls for additional sanctions

For the third time this year, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the situation in Venezuela, expressing its deep concern at the severe state of emergency

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‘Young people care about peace’: UN Youth Envoy delivers key message to Security Council

After visiting refugee camps in Jordan, UN-backed schools in Gaza, municipalities in Kosovo and Youth Councils in Denmark, the UN’s Youth Envoy visited the Security Council on Wednesday with a simple message from the field that “young people care about peace”.

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Monsoon rains turn millions of children’s lives ‘upside down’ across South Asia

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A young boy in Bangladesh navigates a river swollen from days of monsoon rain. He is collecting plastic bottles washed into the river to sell to recyclers to help his family purchase food.

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UN agency helps stranded Ethiopians return home, ending ‘harrowing migration ordeal’

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After being stranded in Yemen, a group of Ethiopian migrants return to Addis Ababa with the support of the International Organization for Migration.

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25 years after population conference, women still face challenges to ‘well-being and human rights’, says UN chief

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A mid-wife at the Sar-e-Hause medical health clinic in Tajikhan Village, Afghanistan, speaks with a mother and her 5-month-old baby.

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UN’s Guterres condemns ongoing airstrikes on Syria’s hospitals, medical workers

Reports that airstrikes have hit several health facilities in north-west Syria have been strongly condemned by the UN Secretary-General.

In a statement issued late July 11 evening, António Guterres said that one of the damaged facilities included a large hospital in Maarat al-Numan whose coordinates had been shared with belligerents, through the UN’s de-confliction mechanism.

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In Mozambique, it’s ‘a matter of the heart’ says Guterres, lauding the cyclone-struck nation’s ‘undeniable moral authority’

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Secretary-General António Guterres meeting with H.E. Mr. Filipe Nyusi, President of Mozambique at the Office of the President in Maputo.

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New UN poverty report reveals ‘vast inequalities’ between countries

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A woman from a low-income neighbourhood in Brazil, photographed at her window. The 2019 Multidimensional Poverty Index shows vast inequalities within countries.

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Global response to poverty and environmental goals 'not ambitious enough’

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Secretary-General António Guterres visited the low-lying island of Tuvalu in May 2019 to see how Pacific Ocean nations would be effected by the rise in sea levels.