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FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 file photo, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister's office in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia's leader said in an address before lawmakers Tuesday, March 23, 2021 that atrocities have occurred in Tigray, the country's northern region where fighting persists as government troops hunt down its fugitive leaders. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

UN, Ethiopia rights agency to conduct joint Tigray probe

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

UN Special Envoy for Libya Jan Kubis addresses the media during a news conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

UN envoy demands foreign fighters and mercenaries exit Libya

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN envoy: Attacks must end for Afghan peace talks to succeed

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 7, 2018 file photo, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of U.N. Women, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in New York. The U.N. health agency and its partners have found in a new study released Tuesday, March 9, 2021 that nearly one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes, calling the results a “horrifying picture” that requires action by government and communities alike. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women, called violence against women &quot;the most widespread and persistent human rights violation that is not prosecuted.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

UN Women urges world to press gender equality post-pandemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN chief calls for halt to violence and abuse against Asians

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Blood is seen on a hospital floor in Atareb, a town in rural western Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, March 22, 2021. Artillery shells fired from government areas killed at least five civilians and wounded medical staff when they landad in front of the hospital. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

UN official: Airstrikes on NW Syria border area worrying

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks to reporters during a news conference, Monday, March 1, 2021, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

U.S. pushes controversial abortion and sexual rights at U.N.’s Conference on Women

By Grace Melton

A nun stands in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 21, 2021. Pope Francis has denounced racism, likening it to a virus that lurks in waiting and continues to be shameful. Francis in a tweet on Sunday called racism “a virus that quickly mutates and, instead of disappearing, goes into hiding, and lurks in waiting.” (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope decries shame of racism, like ‘virus’ lurking in wait

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Kim Yu Song, counselor at the North Korean Embassy to Malaysia, carries his luggage into a bus at the embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Sunday, March 21, 2021. Malaysia on Friday ordered all North Korean diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours, an escalation of a diplomatic spat over Malaysia’s move to extradite a North Korean suspect to the United States on money laundering charges. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

N. Korean diplomats leaving Malaysia after ties are severed

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2020, file photo, a staff member of State Commission of Quality Management in protective gear carries a disinfectant spray can as they continue to check the health of travelers in foreign countries and inspect and quarantine goods being delivered via the borders at the Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea. A U.N. spokesman said the world body has been left with no international staff in North Korea and its North Korean employees are working remotely. Despite claiming to be coronavirus free, North Korea has sealed off its borders as part of stringent anti-pandemic measures that also involved the departure of diplomats and foreign nationals. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)

UN says no international staff left in North Korea

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Police and military forces occupy a road block barricade in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March 19, 2021. The authorities in Myanmar have arrested a spokesman for ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party as efforts to restrict information about protests against last month's military takeover are tightened. (AP Photos)

UN official: Myanmar people want UN sanctions, peacekeepers

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2020 file photo, people carry a giant Libyan flag at the Martyr square during a march commemorating the anniversary of anti-Gadhafi protests in Tripoli, Libya. A recent U.N. experts report has sketched a grim picture of conflict-wrecked Libya, saying a network of foreign governments has turned the oil-rich country into a stage to play out rivalries. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

UN report documents mass violations of Libya arms embargo

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN report: Too much prejudice against old and young in world

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A Syrian displaced woman with her daughter sit outside their tent, as they enjoying the sunny weather at a refugee camp, in Bar Elias, in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa valley, Friday, March 5, 2021. Syria has been mired in civil war since 2011, after Syrians rose up against President Bashar Assad amid a wave of Arab Spring uprisings. Nearly ten years later, millions of displaced Syrians unlikely to return in the foreseeable future, even as they face deteriorating living conditions abroad. The Syrian conflict has resulted in the largest displacement crisis since World War II. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US won’t recognize Syria presidency vote unless UN involved

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2020, file photo, Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, bottom right, speaks at the opening session of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar. Russia is to host on Thursday, March 18, 2021, the first of three international conferences aimed at jump-starting a stalled Afghanistan peace process ahead of a May 1 deadline for the final withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the country. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File)

EXPLAINER: Stakes high as Moscow opens 1st of 3 Afghan meets

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Experts criticize UN over blacklist on harming kids in war

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Anti-coup protesters display placards as they gather in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, March 16, 2021. A grassroots movement has sprung up across the country to challenge the military's seizure of power with almost daily protests that the army has tried to crush with increasingly deadly violence. (AP Photo)

Deadly violence resumes in Myanmar after peaceful protests

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CORRECTS THE ORDER OF POSITION FROM RIGHT TO LEFT- Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, front right, and former head of Libya’s UN-backed government Fayez Sarraj, center, and Mohamed al-Menfi, front left, head of the new interim government’s presidential council, stand together after a ceremony marking the official handover of power to the new government, in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Sarraj, the head of the Tripoli-based government, has been in conflict with a rival administration in the country’s East for years. Dbeibah’s interim government is to replace the country’s two rival administrations and lead the war-torn North African nation through elections later this year. (AP Photo/ Hazem Turkia)

Interim Libya government assumes power after smooth handover

By BY RAMI MUSA AND SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN: Yemen conflict escalates as country speeds toward famine

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 7, 2018 file photo, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of U.N. Women, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in New York. The U.N. health agency and its partners have found in a new study released Tuesday, March 9, 2021 that nearly one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes, calling the results a “horrifying picture” that requires action by government and communities alike. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women, called violence against women &quot;the most widespread and persistent human rights violation that is not prosecuted.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

UN Women: COVID-19 is `most discriminatory crisis’ for women

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press