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Intensified fighting across Syria 'devastating' civilians
Thursday, 18 January 2018, 2:37 pm | UN News
17 January 2018 – Intensification in hostilities across Syria is having a “devastating” impact on civilians, United Nations agencies in the war-ravaged country said Wednesday, warning that the fighting is also severely limiting life-saving humanitarian operations. More >>
Podcast: UN issues 48-hour ultimatum to armed groups in CAR
Thursday, 18 January 2018, 2:34 pm | UN News
17 January 2018 – The United Nations Mission in the troubled Central African Republic, known by its French acronym, MINUSCA, has given armed groups in the north of the country 48 hours to clear out. More >>
Boko Haram attacks, human trafficking in West Africa/Sahel
Friday, 12 January 2018, 11:04 am | UN News
11 January 2018 – The security situation in West Africa and the Sahel remains of grave concern, the United Nations envoy for the region said Thursday, warning that while there had been progress on the political front over the past year, there had ... More >>
UN aid chief seeks improved Syrian crisis response in 2018
Friday, 12 January 2018, 10:33 am | UN News
11 January 2018 – After seven years of bloody conflict, the Syrian war has wreaked a “colossal toll” on the country and its people, the United Nations relief chief said on Thursday from the capital, Damascus, where he outlined ways to sustain and ... More >>
UN envoy for Somalia calls for calm and dialogue
Friday, 12 January 2018, 10:25 am | UN News
11 January 2018 – The top United Nations envoy for Somalia has called for calm and dialogue amid reports of clashes between security forces from ‘Somaliland’ and neighbouring Puntland. More >>
UN chief seeks to maximize migrants' contributions
Friday, 12 January 2018, 10:20 am | UN News
11 January 2018 – Laying out his vision for concrete steps the world can take in 2018 to maximize the contribution millions of migrants are already making to our societies and to agree a set of actions to ensure that the rights of all migrants ... More >>
UN calls for funds to reverse Rwanda refugee ration cuts
Friday, 12 January 2018, 10:15 am | UN News
11 January 2018 – United Nations humanitarian agencies on Thursday called for more donor funding to reverse a 25 per cent reduction in food or cash assistance for more than 100,000 refugees in Rwanda. More >>
Colombia: Reintegrating ex-combatants remains a challenge
Thursday, 11 January 2018, 12:18 pm | UN News
10 January 2018 – Colombia's peace efforts remain challenged by the task of reintegrating 14,000 former rebel combatants, the top United Nations official in the country said Wednesday as he also reported to the Security Council that the UN will 'closely follow' ... More >>
Uni's spotlight hands-on approach to integrating refugees
Thursday, 11 January 2018, 11:18 am | UN News
10 January 2018 – At a special summit at United Nations Headquarters in New York, universities, led by De Montfort University (DMU), spotlighted ideas for practical ways they can use the skills, experience and voluntary power on their campuses to ... More >>
New Year tragedy: hundreds feared dead in Mediterranean
Thursday, 11 January 2018, 11:10 am | UN News
10 January 2018 – A little more than a week into the New Year, reports reveal that close to 200 migrants or refugees have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea – with up to 100 unaccounted for since Saturday, the United Nations migration ... More >>
UN agencies taking on environmental health risks
Thursday, 11 January 2018, 11:07 am | UN News
10 January 2018 – Two United Nations agencies are teaming up in a major new initiative taking on the herculean task of combatting environmental health risks, which claim an estimated 12.6 million lives a year. More >>
Brinkmanship, lack of compromise will deepen Congo crisis
Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 12:17 pm | UN News
9 January 2018 – Political brinkmanship and a refusal to compromise will only result in further delays in preparations for elections and deepening of the political crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has been gripped by a recent ... More >>
Rohingya children stuck in 'appalling' conditions in Myanmar
Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 12:13 pm | UN News
9 January 2018 – While the eyes of the world are on Myanmar's northern Rakhine and Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, more than 60,000 Rohingya children remain nearly forgotten, trapped in appalling camps in central Rakhine where the shelters teeter on stilts ... More >>
Progress on inter-Korean talks vital to reducing tensions
Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 12:06 pm | UN News
9 January 2018 – Welcoming the progress made during Tuesday's high-level inter-Korean talks in the small border village of Panmunjom, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres spotlighted, among others, the agreement to reopen military channels ... More >>
Israel urged to halt forced relocation of asylum seekers
Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 12:01 pm | UN News
9 January 2018 – The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday appealed to the Israeli Government to not forcibly send Eritrean and Sudanese refugees or asylum seekers to sub-Saharan Africa. More >>
Syrian refugees in Lebanon becoming poorer, more vulnerable
Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 11:58 am | UN News
9 January 2018 – More than half the war-weary Syrian refugees in Lebanon are living in extreme poverty and borrowing money for food and to pay rent has become commonplace, the United Nations reported Tuesday. More >>
PODCAST: 'UN can save the world': Veteran staffer at 90
Tuesday, 9 January 2018, 11:31 am | UN News
8 January 2018 – He was one of the very first UN staff members, and 72 years on, Robert Kaminker is still advocating for peace and the power of the Organization to ultimately “save the world.” More >>
13 million Syrians in need as 7th war-torn winter sets in
Tuesday, 9 January 2018, 11:22 am | UN News
8 January 2018 – With millions of desperate people across Syria now facing their seventh winter of war, the United Nations warned on Tuesday that intensified military operations in the country's north are forcing families to flee, in the cold, to areas ... More >>
UN vaccinates millions of Somali children against measles
Tuesday, 9 January 2018, 11:18 am | UN News
8 January 2018 – One million children aged six months to 10 years in Puntland and 4.2 million across Somalia were reached during a five-day measles campaign that wrapped up on Sunday, the United Nations has reported. More >>
UN mobile reproductive health teams reach besieged Aleppo
Thursday, 4 January 2018, 11:13 am | UN News
3 January 2018 – The United Nations reproductive rights agency has reached the Sheikh Maqsoud area of Aleppo, where thousands of women have been cut off from medical care for years. More >>
