New York, July 4 (JEN): The United Nations refugee agency Friday welcomed proposals by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to set up a task force and trust fund to respond to ...

New York, July 3 (JEN) This is a year for global action, with international community in the final stretch of preparing a transformative post-2015 agenda for sustainable development that wil ...

New Delhi, June 30 (JEN): In an effort to scale up India's renewable energy capacity, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (M ...

New York, July 2 (JEN) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed today's announcement that Cuba and the United States will reopen their embassies in Havana and Washington, D.C.

New York, July 2 (JEN): Reiterating that there can be no military solution to the crisis in Libya, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesdayurged the parties to the conflict to agree ...

New York, July 2 (JEN): Real prices for global agricultural products will continue their gradual decline over the coming decade due to a combination of strong crop yields, higher productivit ...

New York, July 1 (JEN) The international community should be ashamed that three years since the adoption of the Geneva Communiqué on Syria, the Middle Eastern country’s “cata ...

New York, July 1 (JEN) Michael Møller, of Denmark, was appointed on Tuesdayas Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

New York, July 1 (JEN) The United Nations human rights office has called on the Government of Mexico to extend their investigations into a series of alleged extrajudicial executions and huma ...