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GENEVA: Gang violence in Haiti has killed over 1,500 people so far this year, including many children, while dozens have been lynched, stoned or burned alive by so-called self-defence brigades, the UN human rights office said on Thursday. Haiti’s shattering gang wars have intensified in recent weeks with heavily-armed rivals unleashing fresh waves of attacks, including raids on police stations and the …

UNITED NATIONS: The UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects report for 2024 outlines a nuanced economic outlook for Pakistan, projecting a modest GDP growth of two per cent in 2024 and a slightly improved 2.4pc in 2025. However, this trend is overshadowed by concerning indicators. Last year’s robust global economic recovery post-Covid, which contributed to GDP growth across the world, conceals latent …

ISLAMABAD: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that 83 per cent of the response plan for last year’s devastating floods has been funded as $583 million has been mobilised against a requirement of $816m. The year 2022 marked a significant transformation in Pakistan’s humanitarian operations, with a notable shift to improved sector-specific coordination and …

UNITED NATIONS: Nearly 2.3 billion people live in water-stressed countries, which include India and Pakistan, says the latest UN report on the looming water crisis. Globally, every two-minute a child under five dies from a preventable waterborne disease. In Sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls spend an estimated 40 billion hours a year collecting water. One in four lack access to …

UNITED NATIONS: Enabling poorer countries to make Covid-19 vaccines is the only effective way of defeating the pandemic that has already killed almost three million people, says a UN report released on Monday. The United Nations has launched a global campaign called COVAX to get two billion vaccine doses to inoculate around a quarter of the world’s poor by the …

Developing countries, including Pakistan, will be hit hardest by the economic shockwaves caused by the novel coronavirus crisis that has shaken the world and will need a support package of up to $2.5 trillion to cope with the damage, a United Nations report has predicted. According to a report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which was …