In the shade of a tree close to the slow waters of the White Nile river, a body killed during the fighting over South Sudan’s town of Bor gathers flies. On the bumpy road towards the heavily fortified compound of the United Nations peacekeepers, another…
Browsing: United Nations
24 December 2013 – Despite remarkable strides in improving women’s lives, China is insufficiently implementing relevant laws against discrimination and…
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…
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…