United Nations

United Nations

By newsday
July 8, 2019
National News
ZIMBABWE has been urged to adopt and accede to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment if the country is to be considered internationally as a nation upholding human rights which is pivotal in the international re-engagement process. ...
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By newsday
July 1, 2019
Opinion & Editorials
A MENACING wave of intolerance and hate-based violence is targeting worshippers of many faiths across the globe ...
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By newsday
May 4, 2019
National News ZimDecides18
ACCORDING to the United Nations, Africa has the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the world. ...
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By newsday
February 2, 2019
National News
The United Nations has expressed deep concern at reports of people being raped and tortured in the ongoing crackdown against dissent in Zimbabwe and demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to act to end the impunity. ...
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By newsday
January 29, 2019
News Slider
Aid agencies warn more than two million people in the Lake Chad region urgently need aid. ...
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By newsday
January 9, 2019
Columnists Opinion & Editorials
Modern slavery is a crime against humanity. Although some types of enslavement, like sex trafficking, are widely known, others hide in plain sight. Enslavement happens in many industries — including restaurants, domestic work, electronics, construction, textiles, steel and seafood. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
January 14, 2014
News
As the death toll rises from South Sudan’s spiraling political and ethnic conflict, the ability of the UN to enforce its peacekeeping mandate in the country is coming under increased scrutiny. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
July 10, 2013
National News
Families displaced during the 2005 Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order are still wallowing in poverty, without decent shelter. ...
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By newsday
March 12, 2013
National News
FINANCE minister Tendai Biti yesterday said President Robert Mugabe has agreed that a United Nations fact-finding mission should visit Zimbabwe to assess funding requirements for the forthcoming elections. ...
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By newsday
January 21, 2013
National News
NEW YORK — Citing arbitrary arrests, intimidation and harassment, the United Nations human rights arm on Saturday condemned recent attacks against human rights defenders in Zimbabwe ahead of elections expected later this year. ...
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By newsday
November 29, 2012
News
UNITED Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has appointed Aeneas Chapinga Chuma of Zimbabwe as his deputy special representative for Recovery and Governance of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). ...
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By newsday
November 22, 2012
News
A small group of UN observation officers operates in Syria, providing the state of peace in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights. ...
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By newsday
November 19, 2012
News
JUNIOR Chamber International of Zimbabwe ( JCI) and United Nations (UN) have embarked on a joint career guidance programme targetting all schoolgirls throughout the country as part of the UN agency’s Millenium Development Goals.
November 14, 2012
Columnists Opinion & Editorials
In simple terms, poverty is mainly inadequate food, shelter and healthcare. And hunger has now laid siege on one-and-a-half million Zimbabweans, according to recent Press reports ...
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