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 ...

New York, Jun 12 (JEN): Concerned at the recent armed clashes amid the ongoing peace talks on Colombia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, on Thursday said ...

New York, Jun 12 (JEN): The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission has called on all stakeholders in Central African Republic (CAR) to help promote an environment conducive to holding elect ...

New York, Jun 11 (JEN): Refugee and migrant arrivals to Europe across the Mediterranean so far in 2015 have moved above 100,000, with record numbers now arriving every day in the Greek islan ...