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Piracy and high seas crime growing
Wednesday, 6 February 2019, 11:32 am | UN News
Piracy and high seas crime growing, becoming more sophisticated, UN Security Council told More >>
Libya: $202 million needed to bring life-saving aid
Wednesday, 6 February 2019, 11:28 am | UN News
Libya: $202 million needed to bring life-saving aid to half a million people hit by humanitarian crisis More >>
North-east Nigeria displacement crisis continues
Wednesday, 6 February 2019, 11:27 am | UN News
North-east Nigeria displacement crisis continues amid ‘increased sophistication’ of attackers, warns UN More >>
Neither side stands to benefit in US-China trade spat - UN
Tuesday, 5 February 2019, 9:22 am | UN News
The tit-for-tat trade dispute between China and the United States may do little to protect domestic producers in either country and could have “massive” implications on the global economy unless it is resolved, United Nations experts said on Monday. More >>
Top envoy to Yemen praises ‘flexibility’ of negotiators
Friday, 1 February 2019, 12:50 pm | UN News
Top envoy to Yemen praises ‘flexibility’ of chief negotiators as new UN mission chief is named More >>
Boom in AI patents points to ‘quantum leap' in tech - UN
Friday, 1 February 2019, 9:17 am | UN News
The “upsurge” in patent applications for devices and machines powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the last five years, suggests that it could soon revolutionize all areas of daily life far beyond the tech world, a UN report suggested on Thursday. More >>
UN relief chief urges Security Council to back aid delivery
Thursday, 31 January 2019, 9:51 am | UN News
With people in Syria “suffering a cold, hard winter ”, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator on Wednesday appealed for international funding, backed by UN Security Council support for safe aid delivery, to alleviate the conditions faced ... More >>
Mass-graves found of at least 535 killed in DR Congo
Thursday, 31 January 2019, 9:47 am | UN News
A preliminary UN investigation into a massacre reportedly carried out in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month, reveals that “at least 535 civilians were killed in four attacks”, the UN Mission in the country, MONUSCO , said on ... More >>
‘World’s deadliest sea crossing’ claimed six lives a day
Thursday, 31 January 2019, 9:46 am | UN News
Six people died every day last year trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe – “the world’s deadliest sea crossing” - the UN refugee agency, UNHCR , said on Wednesday, citing ongoing political deadlock over sea rescue and disembarkation. More >>
UN lauds special chemistry of the periodic table
Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 9:39 am | UN News
On Tuesday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements at its headquarters in Paris, kicking off a series of events and activities to be ... More >>
Nearly $4 billion needed to protect 41 million children
Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 9:37 am | UN News
Tens of millions of children living through conflict, disaster and other emergencies in dozens of countries urgently need protection, UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) said on Tuesday, in an appeal for $3.9 billion to support its humanitarian work around ... More >>
Bigotry ‘moving at lightning speed’ Guterres warns
Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 10:35 am | UN News
Amid an “alarming increase” in anti-Semitism, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday, honouring the memory of some six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust during World War Two, along ... More >>
Climate change recognized as ‘threat multiplier’
Saturday, 26 January 2019, 11:07 am | UN News
As climate change is increasingly recognized as a “threat multiplier” by scientists, political representatives, and civil society across the world, the United Nations Security Council held an open debate on Friday to discuss its concrete impact on ... More >>
Venezuela: At least 20 dead, situation could rapidly spiral
Saturday, 26 January 2019, 11:04 am | UN News
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet warned on Friday that the situation in Venezuela could “rapidly spiral out of control”, amid ongoing deadly violence and uncertainty linked to Wednesday’s declaration by Juan Guaidó that he had become the country’s ... More >>
UN envoy welcomes ‘visionary step’ by Greek Parliament
Saturday, 26 January 2019, 11:02 am | UN News
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres congratulated the Greek Parliament over its ratification of a name change for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on Friday, and commended the leaders of both countries for signalling the end to ... More >>
UN calls on Zimbabwe Government to end ‘crackdown'
Saturday, 19 January 2019, 11:07 am | UN News
In Zimbabwe, violence and the reported use of live ammunition by State security officials against protesters that has led to “a number of deaths” should be investigated thoroughly and transparently by the Government, the UN human rights office, OHCHR ... More >>
UN diplomacy: political conflicts to watch in 2019
Tuesday, 1 January 2019, 1:58 pm | UN News
As the world – and the United Nations – continues to grapple with political crises, we look at the political landscape with Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo. We begin by asking her what it’s like to be the top UN political ... More >>
One small flight for a drone, one ‘big leap’ for health
Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 1:05 pm | UN News
On a small island in the remote South Pacific, a one-month-old baby has become the world’s first child to be given a vaccine delivered by a drone, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced. More >>
‘Chance for peace’ in South Sudan finally within reach
Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 1:04 pm | UN News
The security situation in South Sudan has significantly improved since the recently signed peace deal between the opposing parties in the country’s civil war, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, head of UN Peacekeeping ( DPKO ), told the Security Council on Tuesday. More >>
Worth going 'extra mile' for a new Syrian constitution
Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 1:03 pm | UN News
Efforts to establish a constitutional committee for Syria are worth going the “extra mile” for, UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Tuesday, after meeting the foreign ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey - guarantors of a fragile ceasefire ... More >>
