New York, Jan 28 (JEN): Discussions on humanitarian issues at the Syria talks in Geneva “have not produced much,” said the Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the Lea ...

New York, Jan 28 (JEN): The United Nations on Monday paid tribute to the 6 million Jews and countless others massacred in the Nazi Holocaust with a solemn ceremony in the General Assembly H ...

New York, Jan 27 (JEN): The Syrian Government has agreed to allow women and children in the besieged Syrian city of Homs to leave “immediately”, the Joint Special Representative of the U ...

New York, Jan 25 (JEN): The United Nations refugee agency said on Friday that more than 65,000 people had fled the conflict in the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in central Iraq’s Anbar pr ...

New York, Jan 25 (JEN): Nearly 6,000 people have fled fighting in Nigeria to neighbouring Cameroon and Niger in the past 10 days after reporting that several people had been killed, their v ...

New York, Jan 25 (JEN): As United Nations officials welcome the signing of an agreement to end the fighting in South Sudan, humanitarian agencies are continuing their efforts to assist scor ...

New York, Jan 25 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the wave of terrorist attacks in Greater Cairo, which reportedly killed at least six people and resulted i ...

New York, Jan 24 (JEN): The United Nations human rights and humanitarian chiefs on Thursday voiced deep concern about reports of alarming levels of violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, inc ...

New York, Jan 24 (JEN): The security situation in Darfur deteriorated over the course of 2013 and remains volatile, a senior United Nations official told the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Th ...