Un Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Muslim nations call for human rights in Afghanistan as Taliban enforces Islamic Sharia laws

The leaders of the Taliban have insisted that the harsh policies they have implemented in Afghanistan since capturing Kabul in August 2021 are based on Islamic laws

'Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,' warns UN chief

'With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, in a speech ahead of biodiversity talks in Montreal

UN committed to N. Korea's denuclearisation despite divided Security Council, says UN Chief Guterres

In a meeting with South Korean President in Seoul, the Secretary-General affirmed the UN's clear commitment to full, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula including North Korea. Fundamental objective is to bring regional peace, security and stability

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022: History, theme and significance of this day

This year, the theme for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science is 'Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Water Unites Us'

International Day for The Abolition Of Slavery 2021: All you need to about forms of modern slavery that still persist

To raise awareness about their plight and eliminate contemporary forms of slavery, International Day for The Abolition Of Slavery is marked on 2 December annually.

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition: Why is it observed globally on 23 August

The day is marked to remember and honour the victims of the slave trade and encourage critical analyses of such practices, which might transform into modern forms of exploitation and slavery

'Code red': UN report sounds alarm over irreversible climate impact, warns global warming threshold likely to be breached

Earth's climate is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a major UN scientific report

India's COVID-19 crisis: S Jaishankar and Antonio Guterres discuss ramping up global vaccine supply and production

The external affairs minister's meeting with UN secretary-general comes at a time when India is reeling under a second wave of COVID-19

Indian turns down UN's assistance of integrated supply chain, says it has 'robust system'

Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the UN chief, also said India had so far not sought any shipments of essential materials from UN agencies

World Tsunami Awareness Day 2020: All you need to know about day aimed at 'strengthening disaster risk governance'

The day is based on a practice known in Japan known as 'Inamura-no-hi' or the burning of rice sheaves that took place when a tsunami occurred due to the 1854 Ansei Nankai Earthquake