11 November 2014 – Amid an outburst of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged…
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4 November 2014 – Political action on the part of the international community is urgently required to tackle the fundamental…
31 October 2014 – The Security Council this evening strongly condemned the kidnapping and murder by Islamic State in Iraq…
29 October 2014 – The ongoing civil war in Syria and its spillover effects continue to inflict a devastating human…
23 October 2014 – An estimated 2.8 million Iraqis lack food assistance while another 800,000 are in urgent need of…
20 October 2014 – With Iraq soon expecting heavy winter rains and sub-zero temperatures, efforts to provide hundreds of thousands…
19 October 2014 – Top United Nations officials are today calling on Government of Iraq to impose a moratorium on…
15 October 2014 – The United Nations envoy for Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, today voiced condemnation for the killing of an…
12 October 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he will travel to Gaza on Tuesday to visit several…
3 October 2014 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today welcomed the release of 70 Kurdish children, who were…
2 October 2014 – The United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees across the Middle East said today that it is…
1 October 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemns in the strongest terms today’s bomb attacks in Homs, which reportedly killed…
20 September 2014 – Alarmed by reports that thousands of civilians in northern Syria have been forced from their homes…
16 September 2014 – With the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire holding in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations has reached agreement with…
14 September 2014 – Sustained funding and support will be vital if the United Nations and its partners are to…
11 September 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed today the release of the 45 United Nations peacekeepers that had been…
10 September 2014 – The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today called for urgent…
3 September 2014 – The head of the UN agency mandated to defend press freedom today expressed shock at the…
1 September 2014 – United Nations officials today urged an immediate end to the acts of violence and abuses committed…
1 September 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday again called for the release of 44 Fijian peacekeepers seized in…