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Many countries are bouncing back from the pandemic but the poorest are not, UN says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate, the U.N. Development Program said Wednesday. Achim Steiner, head of the agency, said that after two decades...
A meeting of the UN body promoting equality for women starts with 5 male speakers
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s preeminent body promoting equality for women and girls opened its annual meeting Monday with five male speakers in a row – a lineup that made some of the men uneasy and was somewhat baffling to the hundreds of women in the packed General Assembly chamber. ...
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