This includes a new core finance goal of $300 billion that triples the previous $100 billion target. There were breakthroughs in the Baku Finance Goal and UN carbon markets too.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned a deadly attack in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
A new United Nations Special Committee report described Israel's conduct in Gaza as "consistent with the characteristics of genocide," including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon
The 2024 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference, usually referred to as Conference of Parties 29 (COP29), will probably be the final opportunity for the international community to accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis.
The humanitarian crisis in Haiti continues to worsen largely due to the persistent violence, a UN spokesperson said.
Up to 662 illegal migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya in the past week, the International Organisation for Migration said.
In a world shadowed by the turmoil in Ukraine and Gaza, the urgency for reforming the UN Security Council has reached an unprecedented peak, Dennis Francis, President of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA)
A UN report has warned that the poverty rate in Palestine will soar by 34 per cent, thrusting nearly half a million additional people into poverty, if the war in Gaza continues for another month.
While hardly any progress has been made in resolving the Ukraine conflict, another very serious conflict having wider regional and world implications has erupted in the volatile Middle-East region.
The Indian government’s decision to abstain from the UN General Assembly vote in the 10th Emergency Special Session of the Assembly (in which 193 members convened) on 27 October 2023 on a resolution that urged for an immediate humanitarian truce in the Israel-Hamas conflict, as expected, has produced severe criticism from the opposition parties within the country.
