Thursday, November 21, 2024

UN

UN rights chief says both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes.

Both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes in the past month, the United Nations human rights chief said, as thousands of Palestinians fled south amid Israel’s intensifying offensive against the Islamist militant group. “The atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on...

Water, indeed, is life, it’s food.

Yesterday marked the World Food Day, a day set aside by the United Nations (UN) to serve as a valuable platform to raise awareness of hunger and inspire action for the future of food, people and the planet. The day...

UN Raises Concerns Over Poverty Increase.

The United Nations (UN) has raised concerns about the alarming rate of poverty being experienced in many countries. According to the UN, over a billion people are deprived of basic needs like food, water, health care, and education while billions...

UN report finds increase in global hunger

A new report by the United Nations has found that there has been an increase in global hunger since 2019. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, released in New York on Wednesday and published by...

Migrants protest outside the UN building in Tunis, Tunisia

More than 100 migrants and asylum seekers gathered outside a United Nations building in Tunis on Wednesday demanding they be repatriated or transferred to another country because of the harassment they say they have suffered in Tunisia. Most of those...

Gender equality is not being achieved – UN chief.

The United Nations Secretary General issued a dire warning to world leaders : equality between women and men in the world is an increasingly distant goal. Antonio Guterres said that "women's rights are being abused, threatened and violated around the...

FoN educates journalists on UN Principles

Some Journalists from the Western and Western North Regions have been exposed to the dictates in the UN guiding principles in mining and agriculture sectors for better communication with the public.The principles are the United Nations Women Empowerment Programme,...

The United Nations Network on Migration launches Building Migration Partnership project

The United Nations Network on Migration (UNNM), and the European Union (EU), in collaboration with the Migration Unit of the Ministry of Interior has launched the “Building Migration Partnership” project in Ghana.The launch which took in Accra, on Wednesday,...

Spanish coastguard finds stowaways on ship rudder

Three stowaways have been found sitting on the rudder of a ship after it completed an 11-day voyage from Nigeria, Spanish authorities say. A photo shared by the coastguard showed the men sitting on the rudder at the oil tanker’s...

UN panel accuses South Sudan officials of abuses

United Nations experts have called on authorities in South Sudan to investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine. The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Monday that...
- Advertisement -spot_img

Latest News

“Ghanaians make up a notable portion of US visa overstayers.”

Ghana has emerged as one of the African countries with high visa overstay rates in the United States, according...
- Advertisement -spot_img