United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is leading efforts to procure and supply COVID-19 vaccines in what could possibly be the world’s largest and fastest ever procurement and supply of vaccines, as part of the global vaccine plan of the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX Facility) led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Daily Current Affairs […]
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Recently, six nations of Gulf Arab nations torn apart by internal strife endorsed an extension of a United Nations arms embargo on Iran, just two months before it is set to expire. The Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday sent a letter to the UN Security Council backing an extension of an arms embargo that’s kept
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Prime minister of India Narendra Modi has reported that the fury of the COVID-19 pandemic provides the context for the “rebirth and reform” of the United Nations, calling on nations to pledge to reform the global multilateral system to enhance its relevance and make it the basis of a new type of “human-centric globalisation.” Daily
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United Nations has designated the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group’s leader Noor Wali Mehsud as a global terrorist for participating in the financing, planning and perpetrating acts on behalf of and in support of entities associated with al-Qaida. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The UN Security Council’s 1267 ISIL and al-Qaida Sanctions Committee added
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give a keynote address virtually at the valedictory session of the High-level Segment of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) on July 17 in New York. The session will be on the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 United Nations’ Economic
Recently, India has announced to contributing 10 million US dollar to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) over the coming two years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 United Nations Relief and Works Agency The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is
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China has decided to join the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (UN-ATT) to regulate its arms sales. It comes after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans last year to pull the U.S. out of the agreement. The Treaty seeks to regulate the international trade in conventional arms (from small arms to battle tanks, combat aircraft
The United Nations will create a fund to prevent the spread of coronavirus and support the treatment of patients worldwide. The purpose of the fund is to assist developing countries with weak health systems in addressing the crisis as well as to tackle the long-term consequences. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Norway, which suggested the
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The UN General Assembly approved a resolution that will start the process of drafting a new international treaty to combat cybercrime over objections from the European Union, the United States and other countries. The resolution establishes an expert committee representing all regions of the world “to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use
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India signed a key UN convention on international settlement agreements, even as experts called for local laws to support the treaty’s implementation in business contracts. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements (UNISA) was signed by India’s High Commissioner to Singapore Jawed Ashraf, representing the Government of India. Forty-six
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