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A new nonprofit aligned with the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is making abortion its first play in Virginia ahead of key elections this year. Democrats’ political committee focused on state legislatures is launching a new […]

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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, which struggles to overcome chronic budget shortfalls, appealed Tuesday for $1.6 billion for its work in 2023 with $848 million needed for core services and another $781.6 million […]

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Members of the UN Security Council urged the Taliban on Friday to immediately reverse all oppressive measures against women and girls, reiterating its previous calls for full, safe, and unhindered access for humanitarian actors regardless […]

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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the GCC and the Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC) signed on Monday the second phase of an agreement to implement activities aimed at strengthening the Kingdom’s […]

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After the Taliban administration ordered during the weekend all local and international NGOs to stop their female employees from coming to work, at least five top non-governmental organizations suspended their work in Afghanistan. While Islamic […]

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Deeply disturbed at the widespread, systematic, and grave levels of violence faced by Libyan women and children, including girls, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women has called on Libyan authorities to take urgent […]

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The Saudi Arabian initiative KSRelief has joined the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs this week in order to take part in an event on global humanitarian action taking place in 2023.  […]

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According to an announcement the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) issued on Tuesday, the agency workers have recently discovered a tunnel under a United Nations school […]

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As Turkey’s military prepares for a possible ground invasion of northern Syria, where the current escalation after three years of relative calm promises to further destabilize the situation within and beyond the country, Ankara, the […]

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) opened on Sunday a health center that will serve around 300,000 refugees in the Zarqa camp in Jordan. Being the […]

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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi urged stopping the madness on Sunday after shelling on Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (ZNPP) warning Kyiv and Moscow, which traded blame for the […]

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In a bid to boost global efforts to prevent future pandemics, Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday its pledge of support amounting to $50 million for the Pandemic Fund or the Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF), the […]

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If climate change continues at its current rate, global food production could plummet by at least 30 percent by 2050. A top U.N. official made the stark warning as world leaders met for the second week […]

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Climate change has made young people across the world reconsider their future parenthood plans, a global poll by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed, underlining their uncertainty about the planet’s future. UNICEF’s U-Report – […]

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The UN Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected Russia’s call for an international investigation into claims that Washington used laboratories in Ukraine to develop biological weapons. The US, Britain, and France voted against Russia’s […]

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The United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) First Committee stated in an initial 152-5 vote on Friday that Israel must dispose of all its nuclear weapons and place its nuclear sites under the International Atomic Energy […]

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IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi called on Saturday for the release of the director-general of Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ihor Murashov, who was detained by a Russian patrol on Friday. Stressing that Murashov’s […]

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The new congressional map in Alabama devised by the Republican-controlled state legislature realistically only lets Black voters elect their preferred candidate in just one district. Evan Milligan, a voting rights activist and organizer, has sued […]

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a bleak warning that the world is going in the wrong direction on climate change. “The climate science is clear. We are heading in the wrong direction,” WMO said in […]

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