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Game-Changer Software to Help Developing Countries Monitor
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 2:52 pm | UN News
FAO has launched free software tools that it hopes will improve the way many developing nations monitor the state of their forests to tackle deforestation and climate change. Photo: FAO/Joan Manuel Baliellas More >>
Security Council Condemns Deadly Attack on UN Peacekeepers
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 2:36 pm | UN News
10 October 2014 – Strongly condemning the recent deadly ambush of a convoy of United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Security Council today deplored all attacks and provocations by armed groups against the UN stabilization ... More >>
Libya: Intensifying Fighting Continues
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 2:33 pm | UN News
10 October 2014 – In the last three weeks alone, intensified fighting between rival armed groups in Libya has forcibly displaced nearly 290,000 people across the country, including 100,000, who urgently need food, health care and adequate shelter, especially ... More >>
Security Council Condemns Deadly Attacks in Yemen
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 2:24 pm | UN News
10 October 2014 – The United Nations Security Council today condemned in the strongest terms yesterday’s bomb attack in Sana’a, Yemen which killed at least 47 seven people, including children. More >>
In Cairo, Ban Urges Parties to Gaza Conflict to End
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 2:22 pm | UN News
In Cairo, Ban Urges Parties to Gaza Conflict to End ‘Cycle of Building And Destroying’ More >>
Massive Reconstruction Effort in Gaza
Monday, 13 October 2014, 2:59 pm | UN News
12 October 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he will travel to Gaza on Tuesday to visit several sites destroyed during last summer's conflict, spotlighting the need to help the enclave "look ahead and build a better future” ... More >>
Ebola Response Escalation Needed Amid Worsening Outbreak
Friday, 10 October 2014, 4:10 pm | UN News
With funds from the World Bank Group, UNICEF delivers essential supplies to Sierra Leone in response to the Ebola outbreak. Photo: World Bank/Francis Ato Brown More >>
Malta Must Work Toward Preventing Ill-Treatment of Detainees
Friday, 10 October 2014, 4:07 pm | UN News
9 October 2014 – The Government of Malta has made strides towards preventing the torture and ill-treatment of people in detention, a group of independent United Nations rights experts confirmed today, but added that more needed to be done for the island ... More >>
Malaysian Law Criminalizing Dissent Threaten Free Expression
Thursday, 9 October 2014, 11:30 am | UN News
8 October 2014 – A group of independent United Nations rights experts today urged the Government of Malaysia to withdraw its Sedition Act of 1948 amid allegations that critics of the country’s authorities have faced increasing criminalization ... More >>
Lebanon: UN Mission Calls for Restraint Following Explosion
Wednesday, 8 October 2014, 10:48 am | UN News
7 October 2014 – The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon today urged maximum restraint after two Israeli soldiers were wounded in the Shaba’a area as a result of an improvised explosive device, and Israel retaliated with artillery fire towards ... More >>
UN Budget Committee Approves Funding for Ebola Response
Wednesday, 8 October 2014, 10:45 am | UN News
7 October 2014 – The United Nations committee that deals with administrative and budgetary issues today adopted a resolution allocating funding for the newly established UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response ( UNMEER ) and the Office of the Special ... More >>
Rapes in South Sudan Will 'Haunt' Generations
Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 3:26 pm | UN News
6 October 2014 – The horrors of sexual violence in South Sudan did not end with the ceasefire agreement, a senior United Nations official today said calling on citizens of the world's youngest country to stand together and say “enough is enough.” More >>
Somalia Welcomes Recovery of Port City From Insurgents
Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 3:23 pm | UN News
A sniper serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is seen at daybreak on a frontline position. Credit: UN Photo/Stuart Price. More >>
Smuggling of Migrants Tops Agenda
Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 3:15 pm | UN News
Asylum-seekers and economic migrants take to the seas, waiting out the dangerous journey in the boat's cramped cargo space. Photo: UNHCR/A. D'Amato More >>
Wreckage Found Near Haiti Too Recent to Be Columbus's
Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 3:06 pm | UN News
6 October 2014 – A shipwreck found off northern Haiti could not be the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus's first crossing of the Atlantic, the United Nations cultural agency today reported. More >>
Major Conference on Biodiversity
Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 2:58 pm | UN News
A young child plants a seedling in the dirt. (Image used under license from Shutterstock.com) More >>
Security Council Condemns Bomb Attacks on School in Homs
Monday, 6 October 2014, 2:28 pm | UN News
Aisha and two of her children stand outside the family’s caravan. She has lost three other children since the war in Syria began. Photo: Robinson/UNHCR/Iraq-15/05/14 More >>
Destruction of Syrian Holy Sites as ISIL Terror Continues
Monday, 6 October 2014, 2:25 pm | UN News
3 October 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed concern about the continuing wave of destruction unleashed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) amid reports that the terrorist group has targeted and destroyed ... More >>
'Heinous And Cowardly Murder' of British Aid Worker
Monday, 6 October 2014, 2:22 pm | UN News
A wide view of the Security Council in session (file photo). UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras More >>
Release of 70 Kurdish Children After 120 Days in Captivity
Monday, 6 October 2014, 2:17 pm | UN News
3 October 2014 – The United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) today welcomed the release of 70 Kurdish children, who were kidnapped in May while traveling from their home-town of Ai’n Al Arab in the northern Syrian governorate of Aleppo to ... More >>
