UN International Days
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Health
‘A silent crisis’: Obstetric fistula affects 500,000 women, yet it’s fully treatable
Five days – that is how long it took Dah, a 14-year-old prospective mother from Côte d’Ivoire, to give birth.…
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Climate Change
Biodiversity loss demands urgent global action, says UN chief
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on countries to radically rethink their relationship with nature, warning that biodiversity loss is…
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Culture and Education
Crimes of the transatlantic slave trade ‘unacknowledged, unspoken and unaddressed’
The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on…
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Climate Change
Fast fashion fuelling global waste crisis, UN chief warns
Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of clothing either incinerated or…
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Human Rights
‘The poison of racism continues to infect our world’, Guterres warns on International Day
The United Nations commemorated the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday, calling on the global community…
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