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Wrapping up this week, our top stories are: how new technologies are a “vector for hope” and “source of fear”, according to UN chief Guterres; […]

Technological innovation is continuing to transform the world, with the potential to propel us all towards reaching the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) said the […]

Migrants and refugees suffering from tuberculosis are being left “effectively to die” in a Libyan detention centre south of Tripoli, the UN human rights office, […]

Now in its fifth day, a crackdown by the military authorities in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, with dozens reported killed, has prompted a “gravely […]

Migrants and refugees suffering from tuberculosis are being left “effectively to die” in a Libyan detention centre south of Tripoli, the UN human rights office, […]

The number of people who have left Venezuela to escape the country’s ongoing political and economic crisis, has reached some four million, the UN announced […]

An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, 23 million of them before the age of 15, according to […]

An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, 23 million of them before the age of 15, according to […]

The World Bank has lowered its expectations of global economic growth for this year in a new report. It says that, although the picture for […]

Against a backdrop of challenges in implementing the peace process in Colombia, six independent UN human rights experts condemned on Tuesday the killing of a […]