New York, June 24 (JEN): While the United Nations and its partners continued over the past year to meet the needs of an ever-increasing number of desperate people – from Syria to the Cent ...

New York, June 24 (JEN): While international aid is necessary to help countries emerging from conflict to consolidate peace and embark on much-needed development, it is vital to help them ge ...

New York, June 24 (JEN): Amid a “critical” security situation on the ground, the United Nations political chief Monday called on Israelis and Palestinians to exercise maximum restraint a ...

New York, June 24 (JEN): The Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations (OPCW-UN) announced Monday that the removal of Syria’s chemica ...

Washington, June 23 (JEN) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hailed a peace plan put forward by Ukraine's President, Petro Poroshenko, and said he hopes it will reduce violence ...

Washington, June 23 (JEN) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed the need to avoid an escalation of tensions in the wake of the recent abduction of three Israeli teenagers and the in ...

Washington, June 20 (JEN) As part of an ongoing plan to expand the reach of its humanitarian efforts in Syria, the United Nations refugee agency has opened a field office and warehouse in th ...

Washington, June 20 (JEN) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday strongly condemned the continued heavy shelling, aerial attacks and use of barrel bombs by the Syrian Government, and r ...

Washington, June 20 (JEN) Two special advisors to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned on Thursday what could amount to war crimes committed in Iraq by terrorist and armed gro ...