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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…
28 August 2014 – For the first time in six months, there has been some improvement recently on humanitarian access…
27 August 2014 – Food aid convoys from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have reached displaced Iraqis in…
Remember “Show me the money,” from the film Jerry Maguire? We ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Show me the Science!”…
18 August 2014 – As protests intensify over the killing of an American teenager in Missouri, United Nations Secretary-General Ban…
20 August 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes the destruction of Syria’s declared chemical weapons material on board the United…
He’ll go down as one of the most famous Papal heads of the Roman Catholic church, he was the first…
18 August 2014 – With the latest Gaza ceasefire due to expire at midnight, the United Nations special envoy for…
17 August 2014 – On a visit to Iran, the United Nations humanitarian chief today stressed the importance of regional…
15 August 2014 – Conflict in eastern Ukraine, mainly in the areas in and around the cities of Donetsk and…
11 August 2014 – Major General Kristin Lund today officially assumed her duties as Force Commander of the United Nations…
14 August 2014 – With the addition of Aguas da Prata, Brazil, two thousand cities worldwide are now enrolled in…
14 August 2014 – The United Nations has designated its highest level emergency for the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, citing…
13 August 2014 – As Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi continues to form a new Government, the United Nations Security…
10 August 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed today’s announcement by Egypt that the Israelis and the Palestinians have accepted…
8 August 2014 – As violence escalates in Lebanon, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and its partners are distributing…
8 August 2014 – Gravely concerned for the physical safety of civilians in northern Iraq and the humanitarian situation in…
8 August 2014 – Amid renewed hostilities in Gaza, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called firmly on the parties to…