28 January 2014 Peace and security, sustainable development and human rights are on the agenda at the second summit…
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31 January 2014 The top United Nations envoy in Somalia today voiced his concern over escalating tensions in Baidoa…
30 January 2014 The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South sudan is seeking to verify reports of human rights…
30 January 2014 Unless the security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) improves, humanitarian agencies will not have…
30 January 2014 Africa will always find a ready and willing partner in the United Nations as it progresses…
29 January 2014 More than 400,000 people have been displaced recently in the so-called “Triangle of Death” – the…
30 January 2014 The decision by India’s Supreme Court to commute 15 death sentences to life imprisonment is a…
29 January 2014 Noting that the recent conflict in South sudan has rolled back development gains made over the…
29 January 2014 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the establishment of a new transition Government in the…
28 January 2014 Despite Burundi’s request that the United Nations mission helping it recover from decades of ethnic war…
28 January 2014 The United Nations humanitarian chief continued her visit to South sudan today with a stop in…
28 January 2014 Seriously concerned by widespread human rights violations and the “increasing cycle of violence and retaliation” in…
29 January 2014 With a little over a week to go before the Winter Olympics open in Sochi, Russia,…
27 January 2014 The United Nations today paid tribute to the 6 million Jews and countless others massacred in…
28 January 2014 The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the separate…
28 January 2014 Amid reports that riot police have been deployed in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to break…
27 January 2014 Coconut farmers in the Philippines are in urgent need of assistance to recover their livelihoods nearly…
28 January 2014 An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged the Rwandan Government to lift undue restrictions…
28 January 2014 The United Nations refugee agency said today it has released updated guidelines on the needs of…
28 January 2014 Following Tunisia’s adoption of a new constitution, the United Nations human rights office today added its…