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In 2020, 47,000 women, girls died at hands of intimate partners or family members, says UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

ISTANBUL: Every 11 minutes, a woman or girl is killed by someone from their own family globally, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) executive director Ghada Waly on Thursday (Nov 25).

A woman or girl is being killed by someone in their family every 11 minutes in the world, UNODC Executive Director, Ghada Waly said on Thursday and Anadolu News Agency reports. In 2020, 47,000 w...

New York, Nov 3 – In partnership with the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Global Programme on Nature for Development, the 17th Mobile

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Every year, 12 million girls around the world get married, adding to an estimated 650 million child brides, and in East and Southern Africa, 31

Child marriage is defined as a formal marriage or informal union of children before under the age 18 is a human rights violation. It disproportionately affects girls, robs them of their childhood, threatening their lives and health. Girls who marry before 18 are more likely to experience domestic violence and…

Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Ambassador H E Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani co-chaired alongside Under-Secretary-General of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) Vladimir Voronkov a virtual meeting of the International Expert Group Meeting on Vulnerable Targets and Unmanned Aircraft Systems convened by the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism with the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), the UN Alliance of Civilizations, the United...