New York, Mar 22 (JEN): The United Nations has drawn on the bustling energy of two of the world’s most fabled crossroads – New York City’s Times Square and Tokyo’s Shibuya crossing � ...

New York, Mar 22 (JEN): Amid tit-for-tat attacks between locals and refugees sparked by food shortages in an area of South Sudan's volatile Upper Nile state, the United Nations refugee agenc ...

New York, Mar 22 (JEN): An independent United Nations human rights expert on Friday called for an assessment by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of the legal status of Israel’s pro ...

New York, Mar 22 (JEN): A new report issued on Friday by the United Nations refugee agency found a sharp rise in asylum claims in 44 industrialized countries over the course of last year, dr ...

New York, Mar 21 (JEN): Despite the recent halt in large-scale violence that took place in crisis-riven Central African Republic (CAR) in December and January, people are still being killed ...

New York, Mar 21 (JEN): Leading diplomatic efforts to encourage all parties involved in the Ukraine crisis to find a peaceful solution, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met on Th ...

New York, Mar 21 (JEN): The Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations said on Thursday that over half of Syria’s chemical weap ...

New York, Mar 21 (JEN): As Liberia enters its second post-conflict decade, it faces great challenges to institutionalizing critical sector reforms and building capacity for effective governa ...

New York, Mar 20 (JEN): The United Nations envoy for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, has welcomed progress made by the national army and the African Union peacekeeping mission in regaining control of ...