The digital revolution offers “tremendous opportunities” to fast track sustainable development, but Least Developed Countries need much more help getting online if they’re to benefit too. That’s the message from UN chief António Guterres ahead of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on Thursday 18 may 2023. Mr. Guterres insisted on the need to confront […]

The UN Children’s Fund is calling for an urgent increase in funding to help tackle an escalating number of cases of sexual violence against children and women in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province, where armed groups proliferate amidst heavy fighting in recent months. Reports of gender-based violence (GBV) against […]