Sanctions imposed by the United States on three prominent and well-respected Palestinian human rights groups are "completely unacceptable and should be withdrawn", UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday.
The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, has released $10 million in response to the urgent need for food, water, shelter and other lifesaving provisions following this week's devastating earthquakes and aftershocks in Afghanistan.
Speaking to journalists in the capital of Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Friday, UN chief António Guterres rounded off the first ever visit to the Pacific nation by a sitting Secretary-General, paying tribute to the country's unbroken 50-year run as a multilingual democracy – which is now beset by major economic and environmental challenges.
Sexual violence is rife in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but urgently needed assistance for survivors has had to be halted as sweeping funding cuts bite, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned on Friday.
Women make up half of the world's population but receive only 26 per cent of media coverage, according to the latest UN-backed Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) report, the world's largest study on gender representation in news media.
As billions continue to breathe polluted air that causes more than 4.5 million premature deaths every year, UN climate experts on Friday highlighted how damaging microscopic smoke particles from wildfires play their part, travelling halfway across the world.
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