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Global youth unemployment set to slip to 73 million in 2022: UN
However, the figure is still six million higher than the pre-pandemic level of 2019, with the recovery in youth unemployment lagging behind the bounceback in...
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US faces UN review of race record
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) will host hearings in Geneva with top US officials, advocates and NGOs about whether Washington is upholding its international obligations to fight racial discrimination.
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Death toll from Sudan ethnic clashes rises to 105: official
The United Nations said Tuesday that more than 17,000 people have fled their homes from the fighting, with 14,000 "sheltering in three schools in al-Damazin."
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UN alarmed as fighting, climate displace five million in Sahel
At the end of June, 4.8 million people had fled in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, the UNHCR said in a press release to trail a visit by the agency's chief to the troubled region.
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Billions of people rely on wild species for food, fuel, income: UN
From fishing and logging to the use of wild plants in medicines and perfumes, societies across the planet use species that have not been tamed or cultivated,.
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Central African Republic facing food insecurity crisis, UN warns
The UN's World Food Programme said 2.2 million people in the war-torn country of 5.5 million were acutely food insecure, and their plight was likely to worsen during the coming months.
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SA presidential climate task team in talks with UN to usher in clean energy
A high-level delegation representing the government has been in talks with the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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UN chief calls for ending 'age of fossil fuels'
The UN chief accused the fossil fuel industry of having tried for decades to convince leaders and sway public opinion of its limited responsibility for climate change, and for seeking to "undermine ambitious climate policies."
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UN issues war crimes warning after death sentences in Ukraine war
The UN Human Rights Office said it was concerned about the death sentences imposed Thursday by pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine on two British citizens and one Moroccan man captured by Russian troops.
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UN chief warns impact of Ukraine war on world is worsening
UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that the consequences for the world of Russia's invasion of Ukraine are worsening, with 1.6 billion people likely to be affected.
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Sudan starts post-coup talks without key civilian bloc
The military takeover derailed a fragile transition to civilian rule that had been established following the 2019 ouster of president Omar al-Bashir.
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Climate action must not be delayed by global crises, UN talks told
The summary to this year's landmark climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that any further delay in action "will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all".
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UN peacekeeper killed in Mali 'terrorist' attack
The casualties were members of the mission's Jordanian contingent, a security official said separately on condition of anonymity.
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Cyclones killed 214 in Madagascar this year: UN
"Six tropical weather systems hit Madagascar from January to April 2022, killing at least 214 people and affecting about 571,100 across the country," the humanitarian agency OCHA said.
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Xi speaks with UN rights chief as Xinjiang row rages
China's Communist Party is accused of detaining over one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far-western region as part of a years-long crackdown the United States and lawmakers in other Western countries have labelled a "genocide".
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More than 100 million people forcibly displaced: UN
UNHCR said the numbers of forcibly displaced people rose towards 90 million by the end of 2021, spurred by violence in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Myanmar and Nigeria.
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UN warns that North Korea's COVID-19 response could have 'dire consequenses'
Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered nationwide lockdowns to try and slow the spread of the disease through the country's unvaccinated population, and deployed the military after what he has called a botched response to the outbreak.
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UN contributes R21 million to KZN relief fund
The province is still picking up the pieces after last month's disaster in which over 400 people died and thousands more have been left homeless.
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UN demands probe into killing of Al Jazeera journalist
Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead as she covered an Israeli army raid.
