Meet Abdulla Shahid, New UN General Assembly President 

Foreign Minister of the Maldives, Abdulla Shahid, was on Monday elected the next President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly.  This is a post held on an annual basis, rotated among various regional groupings. The 76th session (2021-22) is the turn of the Asia-Pacific group. This is the first time that […]

UNCTAD Report To UN General Assembly: Fiscal Cost Of Palestinian Occupation Is $48 Billion

The latest United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report to the United Nations General Assembly says the fiscal cost of occupation for the Palestinian people, over the 2000-2017 period, is estimated at $47.7 billion, or thrice the size of the Palestinian economy in 2017, and it continues to rise. The report entitled “Economic […]

Hands off our girls! African first ladies take campaign against rape, early child marriage, to UN General Assembly

Africa’s first ladies, led by Sierra Leone Fatima Maada Bio brought their campaign to ban early child marriage and sexual violence against women and girls before a global stage in a passionate appeal for the world to support their “Hands Off Our Girls! Campaign. In a no-holds barred conversation organized on the sidelines of the […]