New York, Sept 4 (JEN) Women are crucial partners in peacebuilding and must be guaranteed the safe political space, including a seat at the “negotiating table,” to participate in all ste ...

New York, Sept 4 (JEN) Women and youth must be seen as partners in development and involved, not just included, in decision-making, according to discussions at the United Nations conference ...

New York, Aug 21 (JEN) A United Nations official for Nigeria on Wednesday said that restoring the dignity and integrity of returning schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in Chibok ...

New York, July 24 (JEN) Marking 100 days since the brazen abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria, by Boko Haram terrorists, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reiterated his c ...

New York, July 17 (JEN) Deeply concerned by the “urgent humanitarian situation” of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called fo ...

New York, July 16 (JEN) More than 90 days after hundreds of schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram rebels in north-eastern Nigeria, a United Nations envoy for the region got a first-hand a ...

New York, July 12 (IBNS) United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown on Friday called for the world to show support for the kidnapped schoolgirls of Chibok, Nigeria, on 22 ...

New York, July 11 (JEN): An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged the Government of Honduras to address the culture of widespread impunity for crimes against women and gir ...

New York, July 9 (JEN) One in four of all Syrian refugee families in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan are headed by women who, on their own, are struggling to make ends meet and take care of ...