New York, Nov 26 (JEN) Today is an opportunity for each person to recommit to ending the harm being committed against one out of three women, senior United Nations officials said marking the ...

New York, Nov 22 (JEN): Outlining the array of challenges faced by United Nations police in peacekeeping missions, top UN Police officials Thursday stressed the necessity of increasing the ...

Bhopal, Nov 20 (JEN) The Bhopal gas survivors staged an awareness rally on NOTA button (it is the none of the above button to the electronic voting machine where voters reject all candidates ...

Bhopal, Nov 20 (JEN) The Bhopal gas survivors staged an awareness rally on NOTA button (it is the none of the above button to the electronic voting machine where voters reject all candidates ...

London, Nov 12 (JEN) Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be ...

New York, Nov 7 (JEN): Giving women access to and control of natural resources such as land, water, forests and minerals is essential to ensure war-torn countries can achieve long-term peac ...

New York, Nov 7 (JEN): Two United Nations independent experts Wednesday warned Sudan against threatening women with flogging, stressing this practice amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading ...

New York, Nov 7 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim pledged Wednesday to support an initiative to improve women’s reproductive h ...

New York, Oct 30 (JEN): Harmful practices inflicted on women and girls can never be justified in the name of freedom of religion or belief, an independent United Nations human rights expert ...