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Despite Gains Against Tuberculosis, Better Research Funding
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:40 pm | UN News
Patients wait to take their daily tuberculosis treatment at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in Bhutan. Photo: The Global Fund/John Rae More >>
South Sudan: ‘No Alternative to Silencing the Guns,’
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:38 pm | UN News
Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Ellen Margrethe Løj, briefs the Security Council. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe More >>
Cambodia: Report Reveals Scope of Violence Against Children
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 2:33 pm | UN News
22 October 2014 – Over half of Cambodian children have experienced at least one form of violence before the age of 18 while roughly a quarter have been emotionally abused, a new United Nations-backed survey has revealed, exploring the magnitude ... More >>
Support Needed for Olive Farmers in Palestinian Territory
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 1:57 pm | UN News
Olive trees in the Palestinian town of Ni'lin in 2008 were very close to expanding Israeli settlements. Photo: IRIN/Shabtai Gold More >>
UN Launches Initiative Targeting Threat of Desertification
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 1:55 pm | UN News
Recent successes show that problems related to desertification and land degradation are not insurmountable. Photo: FAO/Giulio Napolitano More >>
DR Congo: Ban Deplores Expulsion of UN Rights Officer
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:44 pm | UN News
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Director in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Scott Campbell. UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti More >>
Ebola: UN Prepares for Arrival of Trial Vaccines
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:23 pm | UN News
In early October 2014, with the help of the US Navy, a new mobile laboratory opened at Island Clinic, one of the WHO-supported Ebola Treatment Units (ETU) in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo: WHO/R. Sørenson More >>
Gaza: Pledges for Aid, Reconstruction Must Be Honoured
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:18 pm | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Security Council President for the month of October, María Cristina Perceval of Argentina, is at ... More >>
General Assembly Elect 15 Members to UN Human Rights Council
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:09 pm | UN News
A delegate casts his country's ballot in the election of members for the Human Rights Council. UN Photo/Evan Schneider More >>
Syria: UN Convoy Crosses Lines to Reach Children
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:04 pm | UN News
A UN truck with humanitarian supplies at the Turkish side of the border awaiting green light to cross to the Syrian side, in March 2014. Photo: OCHA More >>
Somalia: UN Envoy Condemns Attack on African Union Troops
Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 1:44 pm | UN News
Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Photo: AU-UN IST/Stuart Price More >>
South Sudan Seeks to Combat Sexual Violence
Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 1:42 pm | UN News
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura briefs journalists on her recent visit to South Sudan. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe More >>
Community, Religious Leaders Must Condemn ISIL ‘Atrocities’
Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 1:39 pm | UN News
20 October 2014 – Civilians continue to suffer atrocities and “dramatic” human rights violations at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), warned United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Mr. Ivan Šimonović, ... More >>
Ebola no longer ‘localized emergency,’
Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 1:35 pm | UN News
20 October 2014 – Ebola is no longer a localized public health emergency, top UN officials said in Havana today as they commended Cuba for sending doctors and nurses to the affected countries in West Africa, and addressed regional leaders gathering ... More >>
Increased Taxes Regulation Key to Fighting Tobacco ‘Epidemic
Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 1:33 pm | UN News
20 October 2014 – The implementation of higher taxes on tobacco products and greater regulation for electronic cigarettes are among the decisions passed by a United Nations-backed conference amid comprehensive efforts to clamp down on the tobacco “epidemic” ... More >>
City-Backed Water Shut-Offs Contrary to Human Rights
Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 1:19 pm | UN News
20 October 2014 – The city of Detroit must restore access to water for its citizens who remain unable to pay their bills, two United Nations experts urged today, adding that a failure to do so would be a violation of the most basic human rights of those ... More >>
Venezuela: UN Calls for Release of Opposition Leader
Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 1:15 pm | UN News
High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré More >>
UN Agency Ramps up for Gaza Reconstruction Push
Monday, 20 October 2014, 4:23 pm | UN News
UNRWA estimates around 17,000 destroyed or damaged homes, rendering 100,000 people homeless in Gaza. Photo: UNRWA Archives/Shareef Sarhan More >>
Alarming Rise in Use of Death Penalty in Iraq
Monday, 20 October 2014, 4:21 pm | UN News
19 October 2014 – Top United Nations officials are today calling on Government of Iraq to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty after a new UN report found an alarming rise in executions carried out by the country since capital punishment ... More >>
Ebola: Coordinating Global Crisis Response
Monday, 20 October 2014, 4:20 pm | UN News
This ship in Las Palmas, Spain, is being loaded with WFP supplies and 1,920 metric tons of USAID-donated commodities and headed for Ebola response operations in Guinea. Photo: WFP/Enrique Pulido More >>
