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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fourth session
Dozens of activists have marched in the capital of Ghana to protest impunity surrounding attacks on women and girls in the West African country. The women activists added their voices to the global conversation about seeking justice for victims of sexual abuses, and holding abusers to account. Stacey Knott reports from Accra on the weekend protest march
While 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has inspired some people, she’s faced fiery criticism from others. Thunberg continued on her journey, this week, at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York. Meanwhile, other young people have been protesting in Washington and worldwide
Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, speaks at the special event to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
At a meeting of the LGBTI Core Group at the United Nations on 24 September, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed concern about growing rhetoric on the part of political leaders using homophobic language to advance their agendas, and stressed that hate speech cannot be equated with freedom of expression, lest it undermine human dignity and even human lives
Video footage appearing to show authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) transferring hundreds of Uyghur inmates to detention centers surfaced last week on a newly created Youtube account. But clues within the video would be key to finding out approximately when and exactly where the video was shot
Electorates in former Taliban capital Kandahar are less interest about the upcoming Afghan presidential election.According to experts, one of the reasons for the lack of interest is because U.S President Final Trump backed out from peace talk between U.S government and Taliban
A recent wave of abductions in Nigeria is raising fear across the country. Unlike kidnappings involving oil militants in the south or Boko Haram in the north, which often take on political dimensions, this crime wave spans through every region, and is driven largely by economic hardship, experts say. The government is trying to address the problem by setting up an kidnapping response team
Plastic pollution continues in Lake Malawi despite a recent ban on the use of plastics. Conservationists say the plastic is putting a strain on aquatic life in the lake. Studies have warned that the fish stock in the lake could be depleted by 2050 unless the pollution stops
The Summit is convened by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and aims to deliver new pathways and practical actions to shift global response into higher gear on confronting climate change, as well as to boost ambition and accelerate action to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement on 23 September 2019