New York, May 5 (JEN): Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Robert Piper of Australia as his new Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, a United Nations spokesp ...

New York, May 5 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned Sunday’s shooting in Texas that injured a law enforcement officer, reiterating that such criminal act ...

New York, May 5 (JEN): Opening the eleventh session of the United Nations Forum on Forests on Monday, the Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, Monday called on delegates to work on agreei ...

New York, May 5 (JEN): The head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has condemned Monday’s attack on a UN helico ...

New York, May 2 (JEN): The United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Syria will begin next week a series of in-depth, separate consultations with Syrian stakeholders and regional a ...

New York, May 2 (JEN): Emergency funding for relief efforts are streaming into Nepal as the country begins to recover from last Saturday’s devastating earthquake, the top United Natio ...

New York, May 2 (JEN): The number of South Sudanese refugees who have fled to Ethiopia since fighting broke out in South Sudan in mid-December 2013 has passed the 200,000 mark and more are e ...

New York, May 2 (JEN): The United Nations on Friday commemorated World Press Freedom Day 2015 with a moment of silence for journalists killed in the line of duty, and drew attention to the n ...

New York, May 2 (JEN): The trial and conviction of former Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed was vastly unfair, arbitrary and disproportionate, a senior United Nations human rights official ...