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Boko Haram's 'extensive and far-reaching' abuses
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 12:34 pm | UN News
UN rights chief urges concerted action to tackle Boko Haram's 'extensive and far-reaching' abuses More >>
UN report projects steady decline in food prices
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 12:32 pm | UN News
1 July 2015 – Real prices for global agricultural products will continue their gradual decline over the coming decade due to a combination of strong crop yields, higher productivity and slower growth in global demand, according to a new report ... More >>
Ebola: virus resurfaces in Liberia
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 11:44 am | UN News
3 July 2015 – In a speedy response to Liberia's first confirmed cases of Ebola in more than three months, the United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF ) has begun distributing emergency supplies in the affected communities including tents for isolating ... More >>
Mali: UN condemns attack which killed six peacekeepers
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 11:43 am | UN News
2 July 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned today the attack against a convoy of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali ( MINUSMA ), which killed six peacekeepers and injured five others. More >>
Syria's ‘cataclysmic conflict’
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 11:38 am | UN News
30 June 2015 – The international community should be ashamed that three years since the adoption of the Geneva Communiqué on Syria, the Middle Eastern country’s “cataclysmic conflict” continues unabated, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said ... More >>
Cholera eradication in Haiti will take ‘some years,’
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 11:31 am | UN News
30 June 2015 – While some 16,000 new cases of cholera have been reported in Haiti so far this year, the disease is now under control but it will not be eradicated unless improving water and sanitation conditions are given a higher priority by both ... More >>
Year of sustained violence across Iraq
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 11:28 am | UN News
30 June 2015 – The United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) today said that over the past year in Iraq, it has seen a 75 per cent increase in grave violations against children that include killing and maiming, abduction, recruitment as soldiers, ... More >>
Thousands flee Burundi for neighbouring countries
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 11:27 am | UN News
30 June 2015 – Some ten thousand refugees fled Burundi over the weekend before authorities managed to close the borders ahead of yesterday’s parliamentary elections, the United Nations refugee agency ( UNHCR ) reported today. More >>
Yemen crisis deteriorates
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 11:24 am | UN News
30 June 2015 – The ongoing conflict in Yemen is having a devastating impact on the country’s health system and has exposed millions of children to the threat of preventable diseases, the United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) has warned. More >>
Internal displacement doubles in Libya since September
Saturday, 4 July 2015, 11:23 am | UN News
30 June 2015 – According to the United Nations refugee agency, the number of people displaced within Libya has almost doubled from an estimated 230,000 last September to more than 434,000 amid escalating fighting this year in different parts of the ... More >>
Ban welcomes new post-2020 climate targets
Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 8:17 pm | UN News
30 June 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed today's formal submission of post-2020 climate change targets or Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) by both the China and the Republic of Korea. More >>
First country to halt mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 8:00 pm | UN News
Cuba becomes first country to halt mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis – UN health agency More >>
Ban condemns killing of former Lesotho military commander
Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 1:50 pm | UN News
United Nations Secretary-General today condemned the killing of Lt. Gen. Maaparankoe Mahao, former Commander of the Lesotho Defence Force, on 25 June, near Maseru. More >>
Ban welcomes US Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage
Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 1:14 pm | UN News
Ban welcomes US Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing right to same-sex marriage Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) pride march. Photo: OHCHR/Joseph Smida More >>
Syria: UN special envoy continues consultations
Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 1:10 pm | UN News
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, continues his talks with the parties to the conflict in this country within the framework of the Geneva consultations, having yesterday met with leaders of the Syrian tribes, according ... More >>
UN agency welcomes EU measures on refugee arrivals
Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 1:00 pm | UN News
Afghan refugees in front of the abandoned hotel Captain Elias on Kos Island, Greece, where hundreds of refugees and migrants are waiting for their registration. Photo: UNHCR/J. Akkash More >>
Afghanistan: Report reveals children bear brunt of conflict
Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 12:52 pm | UN News
Last year saw more children killed or maimed in Afghanistan since monitoring of those statistics began in 2007, reflecting that “children are bearing the brunt of the conflict,” according to United Nations UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s latest ... More >>
UN agriculture: need to ‘do more and better with less’
Wednesday, 17 June 2015, 11:11 am | UN News
At Conference, UN agriculture agency chief highlights need to ‘do more and better with less’ More >>
Child labour practices in agriculture
Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 4:00 pm | UN News
15 June 2015 – A new handbook issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) will seek to establish guidelines intended to prevent the use of child labour across the world's agricultural communities in an effort to tackle a problem that ... More >>
‘Obligation to act’ for Yemen peace
Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 3:53 pm | UN News
15 June 2015 – The international community has not a moment to lose if it is to help end the fighting in Yemen and broker a lasting peace for the country, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today as he urged stakeholders to ... More >>
