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    UN chief warns of COVID-19 debt crisis for developing world

    29 Mar 2021

    “The response to Covid and to the financial aspects [of the crisis] has been fragmented, and geopolitical divides are not helping,” Guterres told the FT.

    UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access

    18 Feb 2021

    The UN chief told a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine and declared that “at this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test before the global community.”

    UN kicks off selection of next secretary-general

    06 Feb 2021

    Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, whose current term expires on Dec.31, announced last month that he is seeking a second five-year term.

    White supremacy a ‘transnational threat,’ UN chief warns

    22 Feb 2021

    In the United States, racial tensions simmered during the turbulent four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His successor Joe Biden has said the Jan.6 siege of the US Capitol by Trump supporters was carried out by “thugs, insurrectionists, political extremists

    Address inequalities in access to learning

    04 Aug 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption to education in history and prolonged school closures could further entrench inequalities in access to learning.

    UN chief ‘deeply alarmed’ by armed clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray

    06 Nov 2020

    The head of the United Nations said he was deeply alarmed by fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, where federal troops have been exchanging fire with the powerful ethnic faction that led the ruling coalition for decades.

    World leaders to mark United Nations at 75 as pandemic challenges organization

    21 Sep 2020

    World leaders will come together, virtually, on Monday to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, as the deadly coronavirus pandemic challenges the effectiveness and solidarity of the 193-member world body.

    UN chief and Moroccan-French activist win Zayed Award for Human Fraternity

    03 Feb 2021

    From the devastating circumstances of losing her son, Imad, murdered in a terrorist attack, in 2012, Latifa somehow found the strength to overcome this tragedy by taking positive action.

    UN head’s call on autism noteworthy

    03 Apr 2021

    The United Nations chief’s clarion call to tap the potential of those with autism should be taken note of. Building a more inclusive and accessible world that recognises the contribution of all people, including persons with disabilities, must be a “key goal”

    One billion with disabilities hard hit by virus: UN

    06 May 2020

    Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the pandemic is revealing the extent to which people are marginalized and is intensifying the inequalities that people with disabilities already face, such as poverty and higher rates of violence, neglect and abuse.

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