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BNNRC CEO to Participate in UN FAO’s AMR Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform Inaugural Assembly
Nov 14, 2023The CEO of BNNRC will be present at the UN FAO Headquarters in Italy for the Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform’s inaugural plenary assembly. Mr. AHM Bazlur Rahman, Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh NGOs Network for... -
UN flags at half-mast for staff killed in Gaza
Nov 13, 2023Monday saw half-mast flags at UN facilities throughout Asia as employees spent a minute of quiet in remembrance of coworkers slain in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas conflict. The United Nations reported “a significant number of deaths... -
UN chief says Gaza becoming ‘graveyard for children’, urges ceasefire
Nov 7, 2023The blasted Gaza Strip is turning into a “graveyard for children,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday while pressing for an urgent truce in the Israel-Hamas conflict. “The unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a... -
UN agency chiefs join in urging Gaza ceasefire
Nov 7, 2023The heads of all major UN agencies issued a rare joint statement Sunday expressing outrage at the civilian death toll in Gaza and calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Hamas.... -
Lives of newborns in Gaza Strip ‘hang by a thread’ – UN
Nov 5, 2023According to a joint statement from multiple UN agencies, mothers are forced to give birth in the middle of debris and newborns’ lives “hang by a thread” in the Gaza Strip. The United Nations Children’s Fund,... -
UN launches $1.2 bn aid appeal to help Gaza, West Bank residents
Nov 4, 2023With the goal of providing $1.2 billion in humanitarian aid to about 2.7 million people in Gaza and the West Bank, the UN launched an appeal on Friday. “The cost of meeting the needs of 2.7... -
WFP and the DWA jointly disseminate study on digital financial inclusion and women’s economic empowerment in Bangladesh
Nov 2, 2023On October 30, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Department of Women Affairs (DWA) jointly hosted a dissemination workshop on learnings from a digital financial inclusion and women’s economic empowerment study produced by... -
Gaza now a ‘graveyard’ for thousands of children: UN
Nov 1, 2023The UN stated on Tuesday that it worried more children would die from thirst and that the Gaza Strip had turned into a cemetery for thousands of them. Since Hamas gunmen broke across the border on... -
33 aid trucks entered Gaza Sunday: UN
Oct 30, 2023The UN claimed that more than 30 relief trucks made their way into Gaza on Sunday, making it the biggest convoy to reach the war-torn region since supplies started to flow in again more than a... -
UN General Assembly calls for ‘humanitarian truce’ in Gaza
Oct 28, 2023On Friday, the 21st day of the Israel-Hamas confrontation, the UN General Assembly, in the midst of the Israeli army’s announcement that it was expanding its ground operation into the devastated territory, called for a “immediate...