New York, Jun 16 (JEN): The international community has not a moment to lose if it is to help end the fighting in Yemen and broker a lasting peace for the country, United Nations Secretary-G ...

New York, Jun 16 (JEN): According to a report released on Monday by the Rome-based United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), migrant workers living in Europe las ...

New York, Jun 13 (JEN): Southern Europe’s migrant and refugee crisis has reached the Western Balkans where an increasing number of asylum-seekers are using the region’s migration routes ...

New York, Jun 13 (JEN): Continuing his visit to Central Asia, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday hailed Uzbekistan for the solid progress it achieved towards the United Nations Millenni ...

New York, Jun 13 (JEN): Ukraine’s children once again find themselves under threat amid renewed fighting across the country’s eastern regions, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICE ...

New York, Jun 13 (JEN): A new global standard aimed at lifting hundreds of millions of workers out of the informal economy and into regularized employment was adopted on Friday in a move the ...

New York, Jun 12 (JEN): The world’s parliaments play a “fundamental” role in ensuring human rights protections for the global citizenry and, as a result, must reflect international hum ...

New York, Jun 12 (IBNS): The head of the International Labour Organization on Thursday opened a summit meeting devoted to tackling climate change as a unique opportunity for job creation and ...

New York, Jun 12 (JEN): The top United Nations human rights official has urged the Government of Pakistan to reinstate its moratorium on the death penalty amid a sharp uptick in the number o ...