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According to rights groups and data analysis by VoA, abuses by state security forces against people in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have declined significantly in the previous year. Henry Wilkins, reporting from Burkina Faso, discovers what’s causing the 77 percent decline and what lessons might be learnt
Amina Mohammed,United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, meets with Nazhat Shameem Khan, Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva and President of the Human Rights Council
Afghanistan is facing a serious food crisis.Afghans have been plagued by crippling hunger
António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General of the United Nations, speaks at a high-level thematic debate on “Delivering Climate Action: for People, Planet, and Prosperity”
A community of 11,000 Bnei Menashe, Hebrew for “Children of Menashe,” just arrived in Israel from northeastern India. They have kept Jewish practises for 2,700 years and are said to be descendants of one of Israel’s lost tribes
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with Special Adviser to the Secretary-General Ahmed Al-Meraikhi
Squid Game, a South Korean television show, has surpassed 111 million viewers internationally, making it Netflix’s most watched series launch ever. Squid
Afghan women’s leaders are urging UN member countries to put more pressure on the Taliban to honor their commitments and enable women and girls to work and study. Girls are still barred from secondary school in Afghanistan
According to the United Nations, Afghanistan provides 80% of the world’s opium. Millions of people in Afghanistan are affected by drug abuse and addiction
Jan Mersa Mohammad was a small child when his family left Afghanistan’s conflict, walking and sailing part of the way to Europe. Jan, now 14 and living in Budapest, feels at ease in his new country and aspires to be a professional soccer player