New York, June 19 (JEN) With United Nations monitors reporting that armed separatists have used killings, abductions and torture to instil a “climate of intimidation and fear” in easter ...

New York, June 18 (JEN) The United Nations Wednesday strongly condemned the continued, targeted killing of Afghan election workers in the wake of last Saturday’s presidential run-off poll, ...

New York, June 18 (JEN) A top official of the United Nations presented to a Washington, DC-based think tank Tuesday a broad survey of new challenges, priorities and strategies for UN peaceke ...

Geneva, June 18 (JEN) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the top United Nations envoy in Iraq are urging the country’s leaders to come together to address the rapidly deteriorating secur ...

New York, June 18 (JEN) Challenging the Security Council to take immediate action to protect victims in the ongoing Darfur crisis, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) u ...

New York, Jun 17 (JEN): Marking the Day of the African Child, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown on Monday called for the world to remember the kidnapped schoolgi ...

New York, Jun 17 (JEN): The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced her deep alarm on Monday at inter-communal violence taking place in south-western Sri Lanka in which seve ...

New York, Jun 17 (JEN): The reduction of peacekeeping personnel in Côte d'Ivoire will continue, given ‘impressive’ progress there, but the rapid reaction capabilities of remaining force ...

New York, Jun 17 (JEN): Chile, China and Morocco on Monday joined a growing group of countries that are making successful strides in fighting hunger and malnutrition, the United Nations Food ...