A senior UN official announced that Afghan UN male employees in Kabul will not go to work to support their female colleagues who are prohibited from working currently.

In his message released on International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, the UN Secretary-General highlighted the need for the countries to unite in order to fight pandemics like Covid-19.

Srishti Bakshi’s documentary WOMB: Women Of My Billion narrates the plight, dreams, and rights against all forms of violence, that unify Indian women

Michelle Bachelet, who assumed the office of the UN high commissioner for human rights in 2018, ends her term on 31 August

Ruchira Kamboj will succeed T S Tirumurti as the Indian ambassador to the United Nations (UN). The Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement that Kamboj is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

“Poignant: A man draped in the Ukrainian flag embraces a woman wearing the Russian flag,” Mr Shashi Tharoor wrote while sharing the image on Twitter. “Let us hope love, peace and co-existence triumph over war and conflict,” he added.

Sneha Dubey who is India’s First Secretary at the United Nations, said on Wednesday that 200 million women from the country were now brought into the established financial structure of the country. Dubey was speaking at United Nation’s General Assembly’s 76th session.

This isn’t the first time Anjana Om Kashyap has been criticised for her brand of journalism.

Here are some highlights from Sneha Dubey’s UN speech that social media can’t stop talking about.

Pakistan nurtures terrorists in their backyard in the hope that they will only harm their neighbours: Sneha Dubey.