•Cocaine Cocaine production, seizures, and use all hit record highs in 2023, the UN drug agency said today, with the illicit drug market the world’s fastest-growing. Illegal production jumped to 3,708 tons, nearly 34 per cent more than in 2022, and more than four times higher than 10 years earlier, when it was at a […]
As global delegates gather for the 62nd session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Bodies (SB 62) in Bonn, Germany, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded that the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) being negotiated must truly reflect the voices, rights, and needs of workers and their co...
Nearly 138 million children were engaged in child labour in 2024, including 54 million in hazardous work that endangers their health, safety and development. This is according to a report released today by the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund, ahead of World Day Against Child Labour, as the world mark th...
•UN chief, António Guterres The United Nations yesterday paid tribute to the 168 staff members who lost their lives in 2024. They include 126 personnel killed in Gaza, all but one of whom served with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA. Ahead of a memorial service at UN headquarters in New York, Secretary-General […]
•Tinubu The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has listed Nigeria and nine other countries as countries to be affected as it will cut 20% of its staff due to a shortfall of $58 million. The U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher revealed this as he briefed staff after OCHA’s largest donor – […]
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said that countries, especially developing countries, are suffocating under debt burdens. It said that in 2023, developing countries’ external debt hit a record $11.4 trillion, or 99 per cent of their export earnings, reports The Guardian. This is even as it is projected that ...
•Headquarters of the United Nations building in Midtown Manhattan in New York The UN migration agency, the International Organisation for Migration has laid off thousands as it gets hit hard by the US aid funding cuts. The agency is battling claims from current and former staff of now pandering to Washington and providing cover for […]...
•Displaced Gazans cross the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip into Gaza City UN rights chief Volker Turk insisted Wednesday that deporting people from occupied territory was strictly prohibited, after President Donald Trump’s shock proposal for the United States to take over Gaza and resettle its people. Much of the Gaza Strip was...
•Afghan ladies UN human rights chief Volker Turk today said Afghanistan’s governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs. Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, women have been progressively erased from public spaces, prompting the United Nations to denounce the “gender apartheid” the adminis...
•A flooded area The United Nation’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) says it has released US$5 million to scale up the flood response and address critical needs in three of the most flood affected states in Nigeria – Borno and Bauchi in the North-East, and Sokoto in the North-West. CERF made the announcement in a […]
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