Geneva: Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labour or forced marriage, the UN said Monday, warning that their ranks had swelled dramatically in recent years. The United Nations had set a goal to eradicate all forms of modern slavery by 2030, but
Islamabad: UN Secretary-General António Guterres revealed that the ongoing flooding had cost Pakistan $30 billion, as he visited Pakistan to mobilise help for millions of people affected by devastating monsoon floods. Nearly 1,400 people have died in flooding that covers a third of the country --
Addis Ababa: Renewed clashes in northern Ethiopia have forced desperately needed aid deliveries to a halt in Tigray, the UN said, exacerbating a humanitarian crisis triggered by the nearly two-year war between pro-government forces and Tigrayan rebels. The resumption of fighting late last month shattered a
Islamabad: United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that Pakistan needed “massive” financial support for relief, recovery, and rehabilitation in the wake of the catastrophic floods that displaced more than 33 million people and are estimated to have caused $30 billion of
New Delhi: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) released a sobering report on various indices of human development on September 8. The report, which describes the Human Development Index (HDI) for all countries, said COVID-19 has reversed decades of progress and has called for a “jolt”
News Delhi: India ranked 132nd among 191 countries in the 2021 Human Development Index – one spot below its position in 2020 – a United Nations Development Programme report published on Thursday showed. The report took into account factors such as their citizens’ ability to lead
Geneva:: Hundreds of children have died in nutrition centres across Somalia, the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) said, a day after the global body warned that parts of the country will be hit by famine in coming months. An official in one Somali region described famished people
Juba: Scores of civilians were killed in political clashes in South Sudan between February and May this year, a UN report said Tuesday, with women and children subjected to brutal assaults, including gang rape. The clashes between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his rival,
Nairobi: The UN’s humanitarian chief warned on Monday that drought-ravaged Somalia was on the brink of famine and time was running out to save lives. “Famine is at the door and we are receiving a final warning,” Martin Griffiths, head of the UN’s Office for the
New York: The devastating floods in Pakistan will place huge strains on efforts to get food into neighbouring Afghanistan to relieve its catastrophic humanitarian crisis, the United Nations warned. The UN's World Food Programme said much of the food aid transited through Pakistan by road --