New York, Oct 16 (JEN): The first United Nations human rights expert on albinism on Thursday issued an urgent appeal for coordinated action in southern and eastern Africa to tackle the upsur ...

New York, Oct 16 (JEN): In one round of voting the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday elected Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay to serve as non-permanent members on the Se ...

New York, Oct 15 (JEN): Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan decreased 19 per cent in 2015, compared to the previous year, according to the latest Afghanistan Opium Survey figures released ...

New York, Oct 14 (JEN): The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, on Tuesday said that while the Presidential polls conducted in the country this pa ...

New York, Oct 14 (JEN): Senior United Nations human rights officials on Tuesday expressed their alarm at the rise in violent rhetoric by influential religious leaders – including calls for ...

New York, Oct 10 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon applauded the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet on being awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace.

New York, Oct 9 (JEN): Despite significant progress towards building a solid human rights framework, the Mexican Government must nevertheless “bind itself to a new sense of urgency in solv ...

New York, Oct 9 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has requested that the Organization’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) launch an audit of the interaction be ...

New York, Oct 8 (JEN): The United Nations’ most senior refugee official is appealing to the international community to refocus its attention on Afghanistan, warning that it would be danger ...