For more than two years, a UN-appointed team of 59 people has been collecting and analyzing more than two million pieces of evidence about possible human rights violations in Myanmar.
Working out of Geneva, there are experts in gender violence and (...)
The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet — one of the oldest surviving literary works in history — is to be returned to Iraq by the United States later this week, the UN agency for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO), said on Monday.
Made of clay and (...)
ABHA — Saudi Arabia has become one of the few countries that provide electronic visa service around the world. This visa is designed exclusively to open up the Kingdom for international tourism for the first time by facilitating the inflow of (...)
The United States on Monday announced a plan to distribute the remaining 55 million of the 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that President Joe Biden has pledged to allocate by the end of this month.
For all 80 million doses the administration has (...)
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday appealed for wealthier countries to delay vaccinating younger people against COVID-19 and instead donate doses to the COVAX global vaccine solidarity initiative.
Speaking during WHO's (...)
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance, represented by the office of the Islamic Counselor of the Saudi Embassy in Thailand, has inaugurated the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Iftar (Breaking-fast) Program in the Kingdom of Cambodia (...)
United Nations independent human rights experts on Monday called for the review of new legal and administrative measures adopted by the government of Cambodia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which they said appear to be "disproportionate and (...)
In Cambodia, the shrinking economy, hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, has affected all population groups, but particularly the most vulnerable. A first-of-its-kind government scheme, managed with digital tools supplied by the UN Development Program (...)
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) took mixed positions on Myanmar's military coup on Monday, as nations expressed their concern over these developments, other countries considered them as internal affairs.
In a statement, the (...)
With millions forced to work from home this year, offices and shops closing as part of containment measures, and travel severely curtailed everywhere, it was inevitable that the economy would suffer.
In this article we look back at 2020, and we (...)
On Dec. 14, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees turned 70 years old. For an organization that should have ceased to exist after three years, it is an uncomfortable birthday that we are not in the mood to celebrate.
As a (...)
More than 32 million of the world's poorest people face being pulled back into extreme poverty because of COVID-19, leading UN economists said on Thursday, highlighting data showing that the pandemic is likely to cause the worst economic crisis in (...)
Lethal cluster munitions are still being used in old and new conflicts around the world, from Syria to Libya, to Nagorno-Karabakh, a UN-backed civil society report said on Wednesday.
Over the last decade, the hair-trigger devices have caused more (...)
A new trade bloc covering a huge swath of the Asia-Pacific region will play an important role in developing poorer economies and in post-pandemic stimulus, according to a report published on Monday by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (...)
Voicing concerns over increasing restrictions on the civil society in Cambodia, a group of independent UN human rights experts have called for an immediate end to the systematic detention and criminalization of activists.
In a statement on Monday, (...)
JEDDAH — Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are among the eight destinations the United Kingdom has added to its quarantine-free corridor list, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced late Thursday.
Travelers arriving in the UK from these (...)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has sent a cable of congratulation to King Norodom Sihamoni of the Kingdom of Cambodia on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques wished the King constant (...)
His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, has sent a cable of congratulation to King Norodom Sihamoni of the Kingdom of Cambodia on the anniversary of his (...)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a cable of congratulation to King Norodom Sihamoni of the Kingdom of Cambodia on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered government lockdowns, collapsed consumer demand, and disrupted imports of raw materials, battering the Asia Pacific garment industry especially hard, according to a new report released on Wednesday by the (...)
Emerging market (EM) sovereigns will suffer long-lasting revenue losses due to the coronavirus crisis, with governments' ability to implement and enforce effective revenue-raising measures set to be a key credit driver over the coming years, Moody's (...)
The Zayed Sustainability Prize has announced that solar-powered lighting solutions developed by one of its previous winners have been installed in the Egyptian village of Habisha, in the Asyut Governorate — as the latest deployment from the (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic would have taken a lower toll on human lives if global production was not dominated by a handful of states, Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, said at the virtual edition of the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation (...)
General António Guterres will deliver a keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Virtual Summit of the Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit (#GMIS2020), which is scheduled to take place on Sept. 4-5.
The summit will also convene (...)
The latest Cost of Living report from global mobility specialist, ECA International reveals UK cities step up the ranking of the most expensive in the world due to the improved strength of the GBP against most currencies.
Reporting the cost of (...)
