24 December 2013 – Despite remarkable strides in improving women’s lives, China is insufficiently implementing relevant laws against discrimination and…
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23 December 2013 – A United Nations human rights body voiced grave concern today after a court in Russia ordered…
23 December 2013 – Thirty-six Asia-Pacific nations unanimously adopted a landmark declaration at a United Nations forum of ministers in…
The EFCC is constrained to clarify that, contrary to the sponsored, misguided reports in the media the Commission is NOT…
Abia women from all walks of life gathered in Umuahia, the state capital to celebrate their tenacity and accomplishments under…
Common attributes of successful leaders, whether born with the proverbial golden spoon in the mouth or fortunate enough to have…
24 December 2013 – The Security Council today authorized almost doubling the United Nations peacekeeping force in strife-torn South Sudan…
24 December 2013 – The top United Nations official in Somalia has renewed his call for a timely and credible…
24 December 2013 – The United Nations voiced increasing concern today for the security of 710,000 people uprooted by conflict…
24 December 2013 – Amid ethnically targeted killings, arbitrary detentions, rising displacement and now the discovery of mass graves, the…
23 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called a crisis meeting of his top advisers on the deteriorating situation in…
23 December 2013 – Urgent national and international action is crucial to prevent the Central African Republic (CAR) from plunging…
23 December 2013 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up to…
23 December 2013 – Three Rome-based United Nations agencies are teaming up on a $2.7 million project to tackle the…
22 December 2013 – Amid escalating tensions and deadly clashes between military factions in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission…
21 December 2013 – The top United Nations official in Somalia congratulated Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, who was appointed…
CNN’s Michael Holmes takes you through 2013’s top international stories. See which ones topped the list.
Rafik Khalifa, a former Algerian tycoon who once owned an airline and a string of companies, was extradited to his homeland from Britain Tuesday, Algeria’s APS news agency reported. He took refuge in Britain in 2003 when his business collapsed, costing…
Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Hisham Qandil, who was prime minister under deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, the interior ministry said. The ministry said he was arrested in the desert outside Cairo with a “smuggler attempting to escape…
A British Greenpeace protester Tuesday said he was “jubilant” after Russia closed the criminal case against him for staging a protest on an oil rig, and vowed to keep fighting for environmental issues. Russia has dropped the case against Anthony Perrett…