Conflict

UN food relief agency provides logistics support to boost earthquake response in Japan

New York, May 3 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday that it is providing logistics support to Kumamoto prefecture in south-western Japan as part of assistance to people affected by strong earthquakes in April. more

UN rights office urges Mexico to consider recommendations on case of missing students

New York, Apr 27 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday urged the Government of Mexico to take into serious considerat ...

UN chief condemns murder of Burundian General and his family in Bujumbura

New York, Apr 25 (Just Earth News/IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the assassination of Brigadier General Athanase Kararuza, his wife and daughter on Monday ...

UN and African Union condemn ambush on peacekeepers in Darfur

New York, Mar 11 (Just Earth News/IBNS):The United Nations and the African Union have condemned Wednesday’s attack by an unknown armed group that killed one South African peacekeeper and i ...

Yemen: UN humanitarian chief urges civilian protection, access to all parts of country

New York, Mar 4 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Protecting civilians amid the unabated conflict in Yemen is the most pressing concern today, the top United Nations relief official told the Security ...

UN envoy for Syria meets with Government delegation in Geneva

New York, Feb 3 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria on Tuesday met with a delegation from the country’s Government, one day after meeting with representative ...

Calling state of besieged Syrian town ‘horrendous,’ UN seeks humanitarian access

New York, Jan 9 (Just Earth News/IBNS): As the United Nations and its partners struggled on Friday to gain humanitarian access to the Government-beseiged Syrian city of Madaya, amid reports ...

UN: Israeli leader calls on Palestinians to resume peace talks

New York, Oct 2 (JEN): At the same United Nations podium from which Mahmoud Abbas announced on Wednesday that he would no longer be bound by accords with Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benja ...

UN demands end to Yarmouk fighting

New York, Apr 6 (JEN): With fighting near Yarmouk intensifying, the United Nations agency concerned with the well-being of Palestinian refugees on Sunday made a strong appeal to all armed ac ...

UN rights chief says world ‘haunted’ by suffering endured by millions during Holocaust

New York, Jan 27 (JEN) Ahead of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, taking place on Saturday , the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Ri ...