New York, Feb 6 (JEN) World leaders too often choose to violate international law and set aside moral principles, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Huss ...

New York, Feb 6 (JEN) Senior United Nations officials on Thursday addressed the Commission for Social Development as it marked the 20th anniversary of the Copenhagen Declaration – th ...

New York, Feb 6 (JEN) Concerned by the ongoing political crisis in Somalia and its negative effect on delivery of progress for the Somali people, the United Nations Security Council on Thurs ...

New York, Feb 6 (JEN) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced grave concern over the continuing hostilities in eastern Ukraine amid an escalating rebel offensive which has lo ...

New York, Feb 5 (JEN) The United Nations’ top political official said on Wednesday that Burkina Faso’s transitional institutions must continue to respect the aspirations of the ...

New York, Feb 5 (JEN) The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the death of Lance Corporal Francisco Javier Soria Toledo of Spain, killed last week while deployed at a UN p ...

New York, Feb 5 (JEN) Underlining the importance of the partnership between the African Union and the United Nations in Somalia, which he called “unique, strong and essential for succe ...

New York, Feb 5 (JEN) The Head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Africa, Abdoulaye Dieye, began on Wednesday a week-long visit to the Central African Republic (CAR), call ...

New York, Feb 5 (JEN) As Member States accelerate efforts to finalize the successor to “the world’s most encompassing framework” on disaster risk reduction ahead of a crit ...