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Combatting hate speech is a shared responsibility: UN General Assembly President

Countering hate speech is a key component of atrocity prevention, UN General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said on Monday, calling for more global action towards eradicating it. more

Pandemic worsened inequalities, exposed true essence of unjust global order, Cuba tells UN

New York: Addressing world leaders gathered for the first fully in-person high-level debate of the UN General Assembly in three years, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said t ...

New platform highlights women’s leadership in tackling global challenges

New York: Women Heads of State and Government meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Tuesday have highlighted how women’s full and effective parti ...

Millions in Yemen ‘a step away from starvation’

New York: The crisis in Yemen, now in its seventh year of war, continues unabated, with thousands of people displaced and millions “a step away from starvation”, the UN Humani ...

Human rights, multilateralism and battling COVID-19, top focus of European Union

New York: The European Union has been at the forefront of international cooperation to defeat “the same common enemy”, COVID-19, the President of the European Council, told th ...

‘Childhood is changing, and so must we’, UNICEF declares, as world marks historic convention

New York: Since its adoption 30 years ago, the milestone Convention of the Rights of the Child and its near universal membership has created “unprecedented international solidarity ...

Balochistan, Sindh and Mujahir activists taking protest before UN in New York to highlight Pak atrocities

New York: Ahead of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's address at the UN General Assembly in New York, protests over human rights violations in his country stare at him. Several acti ...

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