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High Representative Christian Schmidt said that more than 26 years after the signing of the General Framework Agreement for Peace – known as the Dayton Accords – citizens are once again talking about the possibility of another conflict, posing the...

Resurgent imperialism, extreme nationalism and mighty rearmament are among the long-lasting consequences of the ongoing war in Ukraine that, by virtue of its ferocious intensity, has taken the world by surprise. Humanity was just about to recover from an epochal...

How is the war going to end in Ukraine, and what exactly does the West want in Ukraine? The question, while the fiercest war since the end of WW II is exploding in the center of Europe, in a rational...

The poster shows a tiny girl with braided hair, tied at the end with pink ribbons. Her face droops in despair as she walks next to an older man. The garlands around their necks indicate that they have just been...

Mr. Guterres highlighted the contribution that women have made to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, hailed the ideas, innovations and activism that are changing our world for the better, and welcomed more women leaders across all walks of life. However, as the UN...

Peace and Security Russian military operations inside the sovereign territory of Ukraine “on a scale that Europe has not seen in decades, conflict directly with the United Nations Charter,” Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists on Thursday. Despite a sustained UN-led...

The famous saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” is particularly fitting when walking inside the United Nations’ building in New York and through the large open space that leads you from the halls where diplomatic meetings are held,...

Human Rights More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, calling it “shameful” that governments continued to legislate...

With the Ukrainian crisis unresolved and dangerously simmering in the middle of extended Europe, the notorious law of unintended consequences is back. Anything could happen including the breakdown of the already fractured relations between the two nuclear behemoths. Or maybe,...

Humanitarian Aid  Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions - “hunger hotspots”, where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at risk, UN agencies highlighted on Thursday.  According to...