18 December 2013 – The Security Council, deeply concerned over the increasing links between drug trafficking and other forms of…
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18 December 2013 – Amid the ongoing fighting in South Sudan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is reaching out to key leaders…
The United Nations said Thursday it had lost contact with one of its bases in South Sudan as continued fighting between rebels and government forces increased fears the world’s youngest state was sliding towards civil war. The UN said it has lost contact…
18 December 2013 – The Security Council today extended the mandates of judges at the United Nations tribunal set up…
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday slammed rights abuses in Syria, whose UN envoy launched a furious onslaught against Saudi Arabia for pressing the initiative. A resolution that has become an annual event since the start of Syria’s civil…
17 December 2013 – With the lives of nearly six million children disrupted by the typhoon that devastated the Philippines…
17 December 2013 – Despite volatility and uncertainty, Afghanistan continues to make progress in enhancing its stability as the drawdown…
17 December 2013 – The United Nations refugee agency is working with the Government of Sudan and partners to reduce…
17 December 2013 – The United Nations refugee agency said today it has deployed additional emergency teams in the Central…
17 December 2013 – Amid reports of continued clashes today in South Sudan, senior United Nations officials are calling for…
16 December 2013 – The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sent attack helicopters and…
16 December 2013 – The Central African Republic (CAR), wracked by conflict that has killed thousands of people and driven…
16 December 2013 – Voicing concern over the lack of a national action plan by the Bahamas to address trafficking…
Attacks by Islamist group Boko Haram in Nigeria’s restive northeast have killed more than 1,200 people since May, when a state of emergency was declared in the region, the United Nations said Monday. Nigeria placed the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe…
16 December 2013 – Just over a month since Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines, the United Nations and its partners…
13 December 2013 – Humanitarian and early recovery needs remain great in typhoon-hit Philippines, a senior United Nations official said…
12 December 2013 – The United Nations human rights chief today voiced her disappointment at the re-criminalization of consensual same-sex…
11 December 2013 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today welcomed the release of 44 prisoners of conscience…
11 December 2013 – Voicing strong concern over widespread violence in Bangladesh that has left dozens of people dead since…
10 December 2013 – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay today called for an eleventh-hour stay of…