AUCKLAND, 3 October 2024 – As winter rolled into spring in September, consumer spending continued to follow its usual seasonal rise, albeit at a lower level than in 2023 and interrupted by wet and ...

Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay today welcomed a move by the European Commission to delay the implementation of ...

WHO approval will accelerate access for millions, to reduce transmission and help contain the outbreak. WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the prequalification of this vaccine is ...

Speaking at the annual Peace Bell Ceremony, António Guterres warned that war is spreading, inequalities are growing, and new technologies are being weaponized without safeguards. “ International ...

Warning the Security Council, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said that since the last briefing on weapons transfers only two weeks ago, the provision of military ...

The impacts of extreme weather are being felt severely across the country. Some 800,000 people in 29 states in Nigeria have been affected by floods as of September 2024, WFP said, and over 550,000 ...

The heightened repression comes two years after the unlawful death in custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahasa Amini, arrested by Iran’s “morality police” in Tehran on 13 September 2022 for alleged ...

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that it had been “ a massive success amidst a tragic daily reality of life ” for more than two million Gazans who have been caught up in the intense ...

The key elements of the 19-paragraph-long resolution include the Security Council’s call for a full cessation of hostilities based upon, in particular, the immediate end by Hezbollah of all attacks ...

A former combatant fighting for the rights of her people on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines has been talking about ...

Akua Kuenyehia, chair of the independent expert mechanism on advancing racial justice said, “Manifestations of systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement and in ...

“Let us work together to build on the progress of the Haiti MSS mission. Let us embrace a new approach that sustains it. Let us protect the fragile but inspiring opportunity to build a better future ...