It terms "suggestions" that would consolidate dozens of UN agencies into four primary departments: peace and security, humanitarian affairs, sustainable development, and human rights.
UN estimates that "as many as 1,400 people may have been killed" in that 45-day time period, while thousands were injured
The UN pushed back against Trump's remarks.
The United Nations says that, at best, it will be able to raise enough money to help about 60% of the 307 million people it predicts will need humanitarian aid next year
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Dec. 1 after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported early on Monday.
Engaging young people and giving voice to their aspirations has long been a priority for the UN.
United Nations rights experts on Monday slammed decisions in France barring women and girls who wear the Muslim headscarf from sports competitions as "discriminatory", demanding they be reversed.
Nowshan will be joining the first committee meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in late October as a UN Youth Champion for Disarmament of UN Office for Disarmament Affairs.
And it warned that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is potentially fueling even higher numbers of such deaths this year.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali says Bangladesh wants peaceful resolve of the Rohingya issue soon in line with the five-point proposal made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the recently concluded UN General Assembly.
The nearly half a million Rohingya refugees who have entered Bangladesh since August will likely not be leaving soon, the UN says, calling for longer-term plans to manage the influx.
As the number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh edges towards half a million, the United Nations estimates $200 million will be needed over the next six months to help the Myanmar nationals.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday joined a high-level meeting on UN reforms hosted by Donald Trump when the US president urged the United Nations to improve the way it operates.
US President Donald Trump makes his debut at the United Nations, with an address on UN reform as a week of intense diplomacy kicks off, dominated by worries about North Korea, Iran and Myanmar.
A group of foreign diplomats yesterday acknowledged that the world community has to come forward in a big way in aid of the
India has hit back at the United Nations’ criticism on Rohingya issue saying that “enforcing laws should not be mistaken for lack of compassion”.
The United Nations has denounced Myanmar's “brutal security operation” against Rohingyas in Rakhine State as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, yesterday told the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that the operation is disproportionate to insurgent attacks carried out last month.
South Africa's outspoken Archbishop Desmond Tutu yesterday castigated Aung San Suu Kyi over the Myanmar government's treatment
Iran has dismissed a US demand for United Nations nuclear inspectors to visit its military bases as “merely a dream”.
