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Following a contentious session that ended in Samoa on Saturday, the 56-nation Commonwealth declared that Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the foreign minister of Ghana, would be the organization’s new secretary general. The former British colonies make up...

World Cities Day is a time to consider the pivotal role cities play in sustainable development. Cities are engines of economic growth and innovation that hold the key to achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable...

On Monday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for international assistance to help Haitian police deal with the country’s “unprecedented” outbreak of violence in recent months. “I have come here from Haiti, where the security situation is...

In a reaction note to the newest IPCC report, titled “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis,” released Monday, a group of young climate activists from Bangladesh called for global accountability and climate justice everywhere. Fridays...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will return to the top post for a second term. With Friday’s oath, Guterres vowed to use the lessons learned from the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic worldwide. Guterres will serve a second term...

The UN Security Council has backed Antonio Guterres for a second term to become the secretary-general. The 193-member General Assembly has also been recommended to appoint him as secretary-general for the next five years from January...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to raise funds to save Gaza from Israeli aggression. “We see unlimited suffering in Gaza,” he said in a tweet on Wednesday (April 19th). Massive destruction...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called on the world to support Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps, where IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and UN partner agencies urgently need new funding...

The United Nation Secretary General Antonio Guterres today said Rohingyas want justice and safe return home. “I’ve just heard unimaginable accounts of killing and rape from Rohingyas who recently fled Myanmar. They want justice and safe...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that migration, which is currently posing serious challenges to political leaders around the world, was “inevitable”. The topic is being hotly debated across Europe and in the United States....