New York, Mar 28 (JEN): Getting more African youths involved in agriculture and investing in the continent’s vulnerable small family farmers will be pivotal to improving nutritional and ec ...

New York, Mar 28 (JEN): The United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday voted to open an international inquiry into alleged war crimes committed by both the Sri Lankan Government and the ...

New York, Mar 28 (JEN): The United Nations independent expert tasked with assessing the human rights situation in Côte d’Ivoire, expressed concern over unresolved issues in the national r ...

New York, Mar 28 (JEN): The crisis in Iraq’s Anbar province, where three months of fighting has displaced over 66,000 families, poses the most serious challenge to the Government’s effor ...

New York, Mar 27 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of one of the five Iranian border guards who were abducted last month by a militant group and c ...

New York, Mar 27 (JEN): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) condemned the recent attack in Hadramawt, Yemen, in which 20 soldiers were killed, reaffirming that all acts of terrorism a ...

New York, Mar 27 (JEN): Stressing the need to ensure justice and accountability, the United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday called for the establishment of an independent and credib ...

New York, Mar 27 (JEN): With more than 15 years of United Nations peace operations in Sierra Leone set to wrap up at the end of this month, the top UN official there said on Wednesday that ...

New York, Mar 27 (JEN): United Nations officials in the Central African Republic (CAR) highlighted on Wednesday the lack of sufficient funding for humanitarian operations and the constant i ...