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Coronavirus: 'Worst yet to come' for countries in conflict, says UN chief
Since the beginning of the global pandemic, the Security Council has not met once on COVID-19, making no statement or joint resolution.
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UN launches famine and virus aid plan in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's economy has been in a slump for more than a decade, experiencing multiple climate and economic related shocks including chronic shortages of cash, fuel, medicines and food.
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Coronavirus the worst global crisis since WW II, says UN chief
Guterres said that the scale of the crisis was due to 'a disease that represents a threat to everybody in the world and... an economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no parallel in the recent past.'
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ANALYSIS: The world before this coronavirus and after cannot be the same
We must avoid the mistakes made throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries by undertaking fundamental reforms to ensure that we never again face the threat of pandemics.
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Coronavirus: ceasefires and resolutions in project at UN
Armed groups in Cameroon, the Philippines, Yemen and Syria have moved in recent days to reduce violence as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday issued an appeal for ceasefire.
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UN launches virus aid plan, says all of humanity at risk
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that unless the world came together to curb the spread of COVID-19, millions of people could die.
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UN's Guterres urges ceasefire in conflict areas, unity in COVID-19 fight
Antonio Guterres has instructed the UN Secretary General’s special envoys in every conflict zone to work for a global ceasefire.
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UN chief calls for 'immediate global ceasefire' amid pandemic
Syria has reported its first case of the COVID-19 virus, in a country already torn by 10 years of war, and other cases have emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan.
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Millions could die if virus allowed to spread unchecked: UN chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed the need for a coordinated global response to contain a 'health catastrophe' that already has claimed the lives of more than 9,000 people and infected more than 217,500 around the world.
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UN Security Council halts meetings due to coronavirus epidemic
After the earlier cancellation of the meeting planned for Tuesday, the Security Council was planning to discuss the situation in Sudan's Darfur region and hold a multilateralism meeting on Thursday.
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Algerian ex-diplomat eyed as next UN Libya envoy: sources
When asked Wednesday if UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had put forward Lamamra, a diplomatic source said, 'you're right'.
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Nearly 5 million have fled Venezuela as abuses continue: UN
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet warned that "political tensions and acts of violence by security forces and government supporters against opposition parliamentarians have continued" since September.
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UN nuclear watchdog asks Iran to 'immediately' cooperate
Grossi said the IAEA had raised questions "related to possible undeclared nuclear material and nuclear-related activities at three locations that have not been declared by Iran".
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Study: 9 in 10 of all people hold bias against women
The United Nations Development Programme studied 75 countries representing 80% of the world's population and found that nine in 10 people -- including women -- hold such beliefs.
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India defends citizenship law as UN rights chief joins legal challenge
The law, which makes it easier for religious minorities from three neighbouring countries to get Indian citizenship - but not if they are Muslim - was the spark for last week's deadly riots in New Delhi.
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UN chief declares women's inequality 'stupid' and a global shame
Antonio Guterres has warned that the state of women’s rights was dire and said he would seek to end 'default male thinking' across the United Nations.
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UN concerned by revelations of forced sterlisation in SA hospitals
The Commission for Gender Equality released a report this week, which looked at over 37 cases in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
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Human rights under assault worldwide: UN chief
Guterres said civilians were being 'trapped in war-torn enclaves, starved and bombarded in clear violation of international law' as well as 'human trafficking, affecting every region in the world, preying on vulnerability and despair'.
