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South Sudan marks milestone amid stalled progress, spreading violence
- UN News
South Sudan’s unity government marked its two-year anniversary against a backdrop of stalled constitutional progress and ongoing cycles of community violence – often fuelled by political groups and armed militias – the senior UN official in the country told the Security Council on Monday.
Protect unaccompanied children fleeing Ukraine: UN agency chiefs
- UN News
Unaccompanied and separated children fleeing the conflict in Ukraine must be protected, two senior UN officials said in a joint statement on Monday.
Invest in care services to generate jobs, support working parents: ILO report
- UN News
Greater investment in care services could create nearly 300 million jobs by 2035, the UN’s labour agency, ILO, said in a report published on Monday ahead of International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on 8 March.
Two UN peacekeepers killed in Mali, four wounded
- UN News
A convoy from the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) hit an improvised explosive device north of Mopti on Monday, killing at least two ‘blue helmets’, from Egypt, and wounding four others.
Russia reduced Genocide Convention ‘to confetti’, Ukraine tells world court
- UN News
Ukraine addressed the UN’s highest court on Monday to reject as a “grotesque lie” Russia’s claims that genocide has been committed in eastern Ukrainian oblasts, or regions, before calling for emergency measures to halt Russian aggression.
A Tale of Two Refugee Crises
- Inter Press Service
International Women’s Day, 2022 - War, Want, Weather and Wellbeing: Where Are We Now?
- Inter Press Service
Ukraine Challenges Legitimacy of Russia's UN Membership
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 07 (IPS) - The overwhelming condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine—which triggered a veto from Russia and an abstention from China last week – has raised a challenging question about the legitimacy of UN memberships of both countries which are permanent members of the Security Council.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - To be Just, the Energy Transition Must Include & Empower Women
- Inter Press Service
PANAMA CITY, Mar 07 (IPS) - Access to clean energy improves women’s lives in a myriad of ways. It supports access to education and quality healthcare, opens new economic opportunities, and reduces unpaid domestic labour and gender-based violence. Yet too often, the sector as a whole – from industry to policymaking – still fails to include women as energy users, decision-makers and agents of change of the energy transition.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Gender Blind Spots in the Water Sector
- Inter Press Service
HAMILTON, Ontario, Mar 07 (IPS) - The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. UN Women estimates 150 million women and girls are emerging from poverty by 2030, thanks largely to comprehensive education, labor, and social protection strategies and reforms implemented by governments around the world.
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