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UN chief highlights impacts of COVID-19 on women
These impacts risk reversing limited gains made on women's rights in the past decades, Guterres warned.
Guterres urges gender violence end amid 'horrifying' global surge
The UN said that in some countries, the number of women seeking support from service providers has doubled in the last few days.
U.N. worried about Iran prisoners amid coronavirus outbreak
Iran is one of the countries worst-hit by the global coronavirus outbreak. Its death toll rose on Friday to 3,294 as 134 died in the past 24 hours,...
UN Security Council urges cease-fire in Afghanistan
The rivalry and political turmoil have impeded each step toward talks between the government and the Taliban.
UN chief says COVID-19 is worst crisis since World War II
Guterres called for a much stronger and more effective global response to the coronavirus pandemic and to the social and economic devastation that...
COVID-19: UN donates 250,000 surgical masks to US
With COVID-19 ravaging the richer countries more severely than the poor so far, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio accepted the donation at the UN at its...
UN: Asylum rights of Sikhs, Hindus fleeing Afghanistan attacks 'must...
Earlier, Dujarric had issued a statement that Guterres condemned the attacks on the gurdwara.
UN launches COVID-19 global humanitarian response plan
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday launched a $2-billion global humanitarian response plan to fight COVID-19 in some of the world's...