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 ...

New York, Nov 21 (JEN): Drawing a direct link between violence against children and poverty, United Nations officials marked Universal Children’s Day with a call to make child protection a ...

New York, Nov 21 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the deadly attacks on Tuesday against a police station in Beledweyne, Somalia, which follow a numb ...

New York, Nov 21 (JEN): Despite collective efforts, much remains to be done towards universal ratification of the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court ( ...

New York, Nov 19 (JEN): A spate of armed robberies and extrajudicial killings, including those of army soldiers and a senior magistrate, has shaken Bangui, capital of the conflict-torn Centr ...

New York, Nov 19 (JEN): Visiting the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, where millions of Jews and members of other minorities perished during the Second World War, Uni ...

New York, Nov 16 (JEN): Tackling human rights issues in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is crucial to pave the way for justice and reconciliation in the wider Korean Peni ...

New York, Nov 16 (JEN): The United Nations refugee agency Friday said it is deeply concerned over reports of some European Union (EU) countries denying entry or forcibly returning asylum-se ...

New York, Nov 16 (JEN): While there has been good progress so far in the effort to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons, a great deal of work remains, the Organisation for the Prohibition of ...