UN chief Antonio Guterres chided India during a visit Wednesday over its human rights record, which critics say has regressed under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since Modi came to power in 2014 in the Hindu-majority nation of 1.4 billion, campaigners say persecution and hate speech have accelerated against religious minorities, especially India’s 200-million-strong […]
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Climate-stricken world needs renewables Marshall Plan: UN chief
Paris: UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday outlined what amounts to a global Marshall Plan for ushering in a world powered by renewable energy rather than coal, gas and oil. To avoid catastrophic climate change, humanity must “end fossil fuel pollution and accelerate the renewable energy transition, before we incinerate our only home,” he said […]
UN chief calls for action to end enforced disappearances
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged countries to fulfill their obligations to prevent and prosecute cases of enforced disappearance, a “cowardly practice” which the coronavirus pandemic has made even more difficult to combat. The UN chief made the appeal in his message to mark the International Day honouring victims of this […]
Antonio Guterres re-elected as UN chief for 2nd term
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly on Friday appointed Antonio Guterres as the UN Secretary-General for a second term beginning January 1, 2022, saying he takes his responsibility with a “deep commitment to working together to advance the UN Charter at a time of great peril and promise.” The 193-member Assembly took action days […]
‘We are at war’ with Covid, says UN chief
The world is “at war” against Covid-19, the United Nation’s chief said on Monday, ca for the application of wartime logic and the inequitable access to the weapons needed to fight the pandemic. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the “tsunami of suffering” sparked by the coronavirus crisis while addressing the member states at the […]
Guterres offers his services for 2nd fiver-year term as UN chief with ‘no agenda’
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres laid out his case for a second five-year term to member states, calling on the world body to act as a catalyst and a platform for more inclusive, networked and effective forms of multilateralism. Making his vision statement in the UN General Assembly hall, Guterres said that he was offering […]
New UN campaign to bring youth into gender equality fight
The UN women’s agency launched a campaign Monday to bring a young generation of women and men into the campaign for gender equality ahead of next year’s 25th anniversary of the conference that adopted the only international platform to achieve women’s rights and empowerment. UN Women announced its new “Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights for […]
Don’t sleepwalk into war over North Korea: Antonio Guterrres
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned the world against “sleepwalking into war” over North Korea, as he called for diplomatic efforts to banish nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula. Speaking on a visit to Japan, Secretary-General Guterres said: “The worst possible thing that could happen would be for us all to sleepwalk into […]