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Robin de Vogel, Rapporteur for the Third Committee and First Secretary at Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN, addresses the UN General Assembly meeting on Reports of the Third Committee.
Families are leaving behind tents in the countryside and their lives as refugees abroad to return to Aleppo,Syria’s second-largest city. However, some say they are not yet able to celebrate what they hope would be the end of the 13-year civil war in Syria.
Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, addresses the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya.
In 2024, voters were busy across the globe, as over a dozen African countries had local, parliamentary, or presidential elections. In some parts of Africa, incumbents experienced severe setbacks, while some long-time dominant parties retained power.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, at least 2,400 children have been dead or injured, according to the most recent UNICEF reports.U.N agency says the war is creating a mental health crisis among children in Ukraine.
Dina A. Gilmutdinova, Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN, addresses the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.
Large areas of land in North India have recently been abandoned in ruins as farmers stopped working their fields. This is due in part to the fact that farming the small patches of land they own was not profitable and in part to the fact that stray animals destroy the crops they planted. A group of farmers have now joined forces to restore these wastelands as part of a project that is assisting rural women in increasing their incomes.
The Sednaya Prison, infamously known to as “the human slaughterhouse,” was the destination of many Syrians seeking information about their missing loved ones following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Roya Mahboob, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the Digital Citizen Fund, briefs the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan.
In Malawi, a new initiative is changing the lives of students and smallholder farmers. The U.N. World Food Program is promoting the Home-Grown School Feeding Program, which is bridging the gap between agriculture and public primary schools, improving student nutrition while providing farmers more economic power.