A total of 116 refugees, among them 30 families with children, departed on Wednesday on a charter flight from Greece’s Lesvos Island to Hannover, Germany, the Greek Migration and Asylum Ministry announced. It was the […]
Japan’s Olympics minister Hashimoto Seiko has been named the top candidate to become the new president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, the state broadcaster NHK said here on Wednesday. NHK said that the eight-member […]
The UN humanitarian agency on Wednesday condemned last week’s violent attack on aid workers delivering polio vaccines to South Sudan’s Lakes state. Alain Noudehou, UN deputy special representative of the secretary-general and humanitarian coordinator, said […]
The Prime Minister spoke to the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, this evening. They agreed on the importance of scaling up the global manufacturing of coronavirus vaccines and increasing international support to the COVAX facility, […]
The United Nations and Somalia are seeking 1.09 billion U.S. dollars to aid 4 million people in the country, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a release on Monday. […]
The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry welcomed on Monday the Qatari effort to facilitate the revival of the 2015 nuclear agreement, official news agency IRNA reported. “Qatar is definitely among Iran’s close friends in the […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said that the number of weekly reported cases of COVID-19 has fallen by almost half so far this year. The figure has declined from […]
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said that more than 300 illegal migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast over the past week. “In the period of 9-15 February, 318 migrants were […]
Finland is seeking membership of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) as the Nordic representative in the Group of Western European and other States in 2022–2024. The membership campaign slogan: ”A Diverse World, Universal Human […]
The share of children among detected trafficking victims has tripled while the share of boys has increased five times in the past 15 years, according to a report of the UN Office on Drugs and […]
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