New York, Nov 27 (JEN): The agreement signed earlier this month between the United Nations refugee agency and the Governments of Somalia and Kenya supports the voluntary repatriation of Som ...

New York, Nov 27 (JEN): The United Nations campaign promoting greater respect for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons worldwide got a boost Tuesday from rap ...

New York. Nov 26 (JEN) Several independent United Nations human rights experts on Monday urged the Malaysian Government to reverse its decision to ban a Catholic publication from using the w ...

New York, Nov 26 (JEN) Reiterating its strong condemnation of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its use of children in armed conflict, the Secu ...

New York, Nov 26 (JEN) The Security Council on Monday strongly condemned the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Iraq, as the top United Nations official in the country warned of a deterior ...

New York, Nov 25 (JEN): Four people have been arrested for alleged witness tampering in the war crimes trial of former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, the International Criminal ...

New York, Nov 23 (JEN): A group of independent United Nations rights experts Friday called on the Organization to adopt a more central role in the fight against impunity, and urged Member S ...

New York, Nov 23 (JEN): The United Nations agency leading the response to the AIDS epidemic is calling for an end to gender-based violence, which is not only a serious human rights violation ...

New York, Nov 22 (JEN): Saying they themselves had received threats, United Nations human rights experts Thursday called on the Government of the Netherlands to facilitate the growing natio ...