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Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 25

Damilola Banjo
• November 25, 2022

This week, we focus on climate commitments made at the just-concluded COP27 as well as the UN Environment Program honoring activists. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from …

Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War

Russia’s War on Ukraine Is Diverting Donor Money From Other Global Crises, UN Expert Says

Damilola Banjo
• July 20, 2022

Russia’s war on Ukraine is not only increasing the cost of delivering aid to the world’s most vulnerable people, but European donors’ and American interests in the war are also reducing the ability of those countries to fund global development …

Categories: Development, Humanitarian Aid, Migration, Refugees

The UN’s Fund for Agricultural Development Has a New Boss. He Faces a Cash Crunch.

Susanne Courtney
• July 12, 2022

With the world facing an unprecedented food crisis, the smallest of the three Rome-based agencies of the United Nations — the International Fund for Agricultural Development — has a new president. Álvaro Lario, its chief financial officer and a Spaniard, …