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UN urges Kazakhstan to boost rights of peaceful assembly

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:00 am | UN News

28 January 2015 – An independent United Nations rights expert today urged the Government of Kazakhstan to match the country's economic successes of the past quarter century with a ramped-up focus on human rights by opening up the Central Asian state's democratic ... More >>

World tourism tops 1.1 billion in 2014

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 10:37 am | UN News

27 January 2015 – The number of international tourists reached 1.13 billion in 2014, 51 million more than in 2013, on trend for the fifth consecutive year of above average growth since the 2009 economic crisis, the United Nations World Tourism Organization ... More >>

strong>Yemen: Release of abducted presidential aide

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 12:12 pm | UN News

27 January 2015 – The United Nations envoy on Yemen has welcomed the release today of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's chief of staff, and urged the opposition group Ansarallah – which had abducted the official last week – “to undertake steps ... More >>

Egypt: UN rights chief urges end to excessive use of force

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 11:46 am | UN News

As police, protesters clash in Egypt, UN rights chief urges end to excessive use of force More >>

Lack of funds forces UN agency to halt Gaza rebuild

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 11:21 am | UN News

Lack of funds forces UN agency to halt Gaza programme for repairs to destroyed homes More >>

Ukraine: Minsk peace accords must be revived

Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 5:35 pm | UN News

Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, addresses the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe More >>

'Vicious circles linking violence and hunger’ must end

Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 5:32 pm | UN News

26 January 2015 – Agriculture and food security must be treated as essential components of peacebuilding and conflict resolution, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) said during a special meeting of the UN Peacebuilding ... More >>

UN spotlights ‘string of successes’ in Asia-Pacific region

Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 5:25 pm | UN News

26 January 2015 – The United Nations main development programme spotlighted today its string of successes in 36 countries and territories in the Asia and Pacific region in the areas of poverty reduction, conservation of natural resources, democratic ... More >>

Libyan political dialogue set to resume in Geneva

Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 5:22 pm | UN News

25 January 2015 – Libyan stakeholders will return to Geneva this week for a new round of United Nations-facilitated dialogue aimed at resolving the war-torn country's longstanding political crisis, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya ( UNSMIL ... More >>

Ban congratulates Zambia for 'peaceful' election

Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 5:20 pm | UN News

25 January 2015 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the Government and people of Zambia for the peaceful conduct of their recent presidential election, according to a United Nations spokesperson. More >>

N relief official calls for kidnapped aid worker’s release

Saturday, 24 January 2015, 11:32 am | UN News

20 January 2015 – A senior United Nations relief official in the Central African Republic (CAR) has strongly condemned the abduction of a French aid worker by unknown assailants and called for her immediate release, the Office for the Coordination ... More >>

Genocide occurs when ‘warning signs’ ignored

Saturday, 24 January 2015, 11:28 am | UN News

21 January 2015 – During a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp today, United Nations Deputy-Secretary-General Jan Eliasson called for reflection on how better to prevent horrific crimes witnessed ... More >>

Burundi making strides towards ‘peaceful, credible’ election

Saturday, 24 January 2015, 11:24 am | UN News

21 January 2015 – Amid a flare-up in fighting and ongoing political tensions between the Government and opposition members, the organization of legitimate elections in Burundi remains ‘one of the most pressing challenges’ facing the African country ... More >>

Ukraine ceasefire exists ‘in name only,’

Saturday, 24 January 2015, 10:58 am | UN News

21 January 2015 – After weeks of relative calm, the United Nations political chief said the Security Council was meeting today amid the ‘worst hostilities’ in eastern Ukraine since the Minsk Protocol was agreed on 5 September, with the urgently needed ... More >>

International Monetary Fund downgrade global growth forecast

Thursday, 22 January 2015, 12:53 pm | UN News

20 January 2015 – Despite a sharp decline in oil prices, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest economic outlook today lowered growth expectations for this year and the next for most countries due to slowdown in investment, and urged governments ... More >>