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    VIDEO: Only a coronavirus vaccine will allow return to 'normalcy': UN chief

    16 Apr 2020

    A COVID-19 vaccine may be the only thing that can bring back "normalcy," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, hoping for just that before the end of the year.

    Using pandemic to erode human rights is 'unacceptable': UN chief

    23 Apr 2020

    Taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to erode human rights would be unacceptable, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday, unveiling a new report on the issue.

    COVID-19: UN chief urges fast action to avoid ‘global food emergency’

    10 Jun 2020

    The UN chief launched a policy briefing on the Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security and Nutrition on Tuesday which said before the pandemic more than 820 million people were "chronically food insecure,” with 135 million at crisis levels or worse.

    UN chief warns foreign interference in Libya ‘unprecedented’

    09 Jul 2020

    Guterres and speaker after speaker decried the failure of the parties to adhere to the Berlin agreement and demand its speedy implementation.

    Ending hunger now stronger challenge

    14 Jul 2020

    This year’s major UN food security update highlights over the past five years tens of millions of people have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished, and that’s indeed distressing news.

    UN says 1 billion students affected by closures

    04 Aug 2020

    In addition, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that at least 40 million children worldwide have missed out on education "in their critical pre-school year.”

    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 warns ‘vaccine nationalism’ is moving at full speed

    10 Dec 2020

    The UN chief reiterated his call for vaccines to be treated as “a global public good,” available to everyone, everywhere on the planet, especially in Africa. And he appealed for $4.2 billion in the next two months for

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