A delegation of the United Nations will visit Bhasan Char island- the new site that the Bangladesh government has developed for the relocation of around 100,000 Rohingya refugees- in Bangladesh for assessing the facilities there
Kale joins the roster of more than 200 Indians who have died in the service of the UN.
Kale, who worked for the UN Department of Safety and Security (DSS) joins the roster of more than 200 Indians who have died in the service of the UN.
More than 24,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza, from where Hamas launched the attack in which about 1,200 people were killed and about 240 were kidnapped.
A delegation of the United Nations will visit Bhasan Char island- the new site that the Bangladesh government has developed for the relocation of around 100,000 Rohingya refugees- in Bangladesh for assessing the facilities there
In a historic step that may reshape decision and policy-making towards sustainable development, the United Nations adopted a new framework on Thursday that includes the contributions of nature when measuring economic prosperity and human well-being
As India recovers from the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, its leadership in vaccine production and its growth projection of 11.5 per cent will have an important role in helping the world overcome the pandemic, Gita Gopinath, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday
A Bangladeshi annually wastes 65 kg of food, finds a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), a Nairobi-based organization
Pakistan is attempting to turn UN's counter-terrorism efforts into justification for terrorism
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched a new element of a data tool focusing on the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines in countries experiencing humanitarian emergencies, said the office
India's murukku diplomacy got unanimous support in the 193-member UN General Assembly for its resolution to designate 2023 as the International Year of Millets to promote the healthy foodgrains in a world facing both malnutrition and unhealthy diets
Institutional suspicion and fear of Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim has escalated to epidemic proportions, the Human Rights Council heard on Thursday
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called for temporary basic income for millions of the world’s poorest women, to help them cope with effects of coronavirus pandemic and alleviate the economic pressures they face every day
UNICEF will deliver the first shipment of 264,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on 7 March as part of the first allocation of the 1.44 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility to the Ministry of Health
The UN's top human rights official on Monday called for transparent investigation into the death in custody of a writer in Bangladesh, who was held in pre-trial detention for nine months for publishing an article and sharing social media posts critical of the Government’s COVID-19 response
The Japanese government and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, have signed an agreement to provide around $10 million to support the improvement of water supply and distribution systems for Bangladeshi host communities and Rohingya communities in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar
Backing Sri Lanka in the ongoing 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), China strongly criticized the “politicization” of human rights, and lashed out at the UNHRC for, what it called, the 'open interference' in countries’ internal affairs
In a dramatic show of defiance Myanmar's Permanent Representative Kyaw Moe Tun has denounced his country's military regime before the UN General Assembly and declared he would fight for democracy
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Indian environment and economics expert Ligia Noronha as an assistant secretary-general and the head of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) New York office