Geopolitics
New York, Jan 29 (JEN) A new plan to combat hunger in the Caribbean and Latin America presented by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is being considered for adoption at a summit of the region’s leaders taking place on Wednesday and on Thursday in the Costa Rican capital. more
Remembering Holocaust victims, Ban urges unity to eradicate anti-Semitism, all forms of hatred

New York, Jan 29 (JEN) The international community has not yet found the antidote to the poison that led to genocide 70 years ago, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, ma ...

UN expert urges Kazakhstan to boost rights of peaceful assembly, association

New York, Jan 29 (JEN) An independent United Nations rights expert on Wednesday urged the Government of Kazakhstan to match the country's economic successes of the past quarter century with ...

Yemen: UN special envoy welcomes release of abducted presidential aide

New York, Jan 28 (JEN) The United Nations envoy on Yemen has welcomed the release today of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's chief of staff, and urged the opposition group Ansarallah †...

'We are being tested again,' Ban warns as UN marks 70 years since Auschwitz liberation

New York, Jan 28 (JEN)Seventy years ago today, allied forces liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...

UN agency sounds warning over Iraqis displaced to country's South

New York, Jan 28 (JEN) The United Nations has said today that many recently displaced Iraqis in the south of the strife-riven country are facing a “critical” humanitarian situat ...

World must 'wake up' to enormity of Central African Republic crisis, warns UN relief official

New York, Jan 28 (JEN) The top United Nations humanitarian official in the Central African Republic (CAR) is calling for increased protection of displaced communities in the northern town o ...

Ukraine: Minsk peace accords must be revived, UN political chief tells Security Council

New York, Jan 27 (JEN) Briefing the Security Council on recent developments in Ukraine, Jeffrey Feltman, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, called on Monday f ...

‘Vicious circles linking violence and hunger’ must end – UN agriculture chief

New York, Jan 27 (JEN) Agriculture and food security must be treated as essential components of peacebuilding and conflict resolution, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Org ...

In new development report, UN spotlights ‘string of successes’ in Asia-Pacific region

New York, Jan 27 (JEN): The United Nations main development programme spotlighted on Monday its string of successes in 36 countries and territories in the Asia and Pacific region in the are ...