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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...

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

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...

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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...

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