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Despite gaps in legal framework, fundamental freedoms were respected in impartially administered referendum, international observers say in Skopje

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Ambassador Jan Petersen, head of the referendum observation mission from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human...

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Support for underfunded crises from UN Emergency Fund

The Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) has finalised allocations totalling $80 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for humanitarian response to some of the UN's least well-funded 2018 response plans across Africa, Asia, and the...

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On International Day of Non-Violence, UN chief calls for world to follow Gandhi’s example

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The “Non-Violence” (or “Knotted Gun”) sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on...

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UN Assembly wraps up annual general debate, its global multilateral role reaffirmed; now comes the task of reform

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María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, gavels to a...

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