The world is living through an age of extremes, according to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, who has warned that wars, technological disruption, climate chaos, political polarisation and widening
Foreign direct investment into Sri Lanka reached 1.044 billion dollars in 2025, according to the just-issued World Investment Report 2026 by UNCTAD, the UN’s leading body on trade and development. The figure
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A United Nations expert has warned that racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance remain deeply entrenched across all levels of sport worldwide, urging states and sporting bodies to take coordinated action
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Artificial intelligence is delivering significant economic and scientific gains, but its capabilities are advancing faster than governments and institutions can effectively regulate, according to a United Nations-backed scientific panel. The warning was
More The United Nations was never supposed to work like this. For eight decades, the process of selecting its most powerful official, the closest thing the world has to a global leader, has
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A United Nations human rights report has documented what it describes as the widespread and systematic use of conflict-related sexual violence throughout Sudan’s ongoing war, alleging that such abuses have accompanied the
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that Haiti is facing the most severe humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere, driven by escalating gang violence, mass displacement, widespread hunger and a critically
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by Durga Velayudham Suresh Sallay is now a detention case the state cannot bury under procedure, and the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture arriving in Sri Lanka between 15 and 24
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The former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, has said she would regard a possible veto against her candidacy for United Nations Secretary-General as a point of honor if it were based on
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The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to access health care, education, employment, and other necessities. Women in
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor A landmark assessment from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has revealed a sharp and sustained contraction in global peacekeeping, warning that multilateral conflict management is entering
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In a striking diplomatic victory that has reshaped the global climate debate, the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has pushed through an ambitious climate resolution at the United Nations General Assembly,
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Spain’s handling of the HV Hondius cruise ship crisis has ignited both international praise and fierce domestic political backlash after the vessel carrying passengers exposed to a hantavirus outbreak was allowed to
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A dramatic confrontation at the United Nations Security Council has underscored the growing risk of a wider international crisis, as Russia and China vetoed a resolution condemning Iran’s closure of the Strait
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Failure of the UN system is ultimately a failure of its member states to maintain and foster its objectives. Inequality in the power of member states, and the partiality shown by some
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The Middle East is teetering on the edge of a far wider conflict, the United Nations has warned, as escalating military exchanges between Iran, the United States and Israel ripple across the
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