UN decides holding high-level conference on Rohingya next year
UN decides holding high-level conference on Rohingya next year

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution deciding to hold an all-stakeholder high-level UN Conference in 2025 to propose a time-bound plan for sustainable resolution of the Rohingya crisis, reports BSS. This high-level Conference is part of a call from the Bangladesh Chief...

Guterres calls for ceasefire in Gaza, Lebanon at G20
Guterres calls for ceasefire in Gaza, Lebanon at G20

The United Nations chief Antonio Guterres repeated the appeal while speaking to reporters in Brazils Rio de Janeiro, ahead of the G20 summit which starts on Monday, reports Al Jazeera. Previously, pro-Palestinian protesters took the streets and demanded to cut relation with Israel. Guterres...

One in three women experiences gender-based violence
One in three women experiences gender-based violence

Every year, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) campaign led by UN Women serves as a powerful reminder of the widespread violence women and girls face worldwide, reports UNB. In support of this civil society initiative the UN Secretary-General back in 2008 launched the...

Horrors of Gaza now playing out in Lebanon: UNICEF
Horrors of Gaza now playing out in Lebanon: UNICEF

The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder has said that an impassioned plea for the war on children in Gaza and now Lebanon to stop, reports Al Jazeera. Reflecting on the horrors that he witnessed in Gaza, where so many children have been killed and maimed by Israeli...

U.S. states Israel has not violated law on blocking aid to Gaza
U.S. states Israel has not violated law on blocking aid to Gaza

The U.S. has stated that Israel has not violated American laws regarding the blocking of aid supplies to Gaza, following the expiration of a 30-day deadline issued by the U.S. for Israel to improve humanitarian access. The deadline was set with the threat of cutting some military assistance if...

CA to address World Leaders Action Summit at COP29 Wednesday
CA to address World Leaders Action Summit at COP29 Wednesday

Chief Adviser of the interim government Prof Muhammad Yunus will address the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29, on Wednesday, reports The Business Standard. The 29th climate summit started in Baku, Azerbaijan...

Famine is likely happening in north Gaza: UNRWA chief
Famine is likely happening in north Gaza: UNRWA chief

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) chief Philippe Lazzarini said that the looming famine in northern Gaza is man made and accuses Israel yet again of weaponising hunger in its war on the Palestinian enclave, reports Al Jazeera. Famine is likely happening in northern Gaza, he said...

UN imposes sanctions on 2 Sudanese generals for war crimes in Darfur conflict
UN imposes sanctions on 2 Sudanese generals for war crimes in Darfur conflict

The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Friday against two generals from Sudans paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for their roles in a brutal conflict against the Sudanese military, marked by ethnic violence and alleged atrocities. Sudans conflict erupted in April 2023...

Bangladesh Permanent Representative to UN made ICSC member
Bangladesh Permanent Representative to UN made ICSC member

Bangladeshs Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith has been elected as member of the prestigious International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) in a heavily contested election held on Friday at the UN Headquarters in New York, reports BSS. There were...

70% of Gaza war dead women and children: UN
70% of Gaza war dead women and children: UN

The United Nations Human Rights Office said that it has verified 8,119 killings of Palestinians in Gaza that came in the first seven months of Israels war on the enclave, reports Al Jazeera. Nearly 70 percent of the verified deaths were women and children, it said, condemning what it called...

Israeli attacks killed 85 on-duty medics in Lebanon: UN
Israeli attacks killed 85 on-duty medics in Lebanon: UN

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), citing figures from the WHO, said there had been 36 Israeli attacks on healthcare facilities since the escalation with Hezbollah in September, reports Al Jazeera. It said 85 health workers have been killed and 51 others...

UN fact-finding mission likely to finalise its report by early Dec: Türk
UN fact-finding mission likely to finalise its report by early Dec: Türk

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Wednesday said the independent UN Fact Finding Mission, which is investigating atrocities committed during the July-August mass uprising in Bangladesh, would hopefully finalise its report by the first week of December, reports BSS....

The whole world condemns as Israel ban UNRWA
The whole world condemns as Israel ban UNRWA

Israeli parliament has approved on Monday a controversial bill to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which is considered as the lifeline in the Israel sieged Gaza, reports agencies. The banning will be applicable in Israeli territory and its occupied...

UN chief slams Israel’s ‘unacceptable’ ban on UNRWA
UN chief slams Israel’s ‘unacceptable’ ban on UNRWA

Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres said he was deeply concerned by the Israeli legislation banning UNRWA, adding that the implementation of these laws would be detrimental to the resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, reports Al Jazeera. There is no alternative to...