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Need for Greater Marine Protections from Plastic Waste
Friday, 3 October 2014, 3:51 pm | UN News
Marine litter affects communities and seas in every region of the world, and negatively impacts biodiversity, fisheries and coastal economies. Photo: UNEP GRID Arendal/Lawrence Hislop More >>
Tolerance And Education Critical Allies Against Terrorism
Thursday, 2 October 2014, 10:39 am | UN News
30 September 2014 – The international community must act swiftly and concretely to confront the root causes of violent extremism, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, underlining the need to address terrorism through more comprehensive ... More >>
UN Launches Strengthened Response as Ebola Shatters Lives
Wednesday, 1 October 2014, 1:02 pm | UN News
Thirteen year-old Francis from Sierra Leone lost his parents, sister and grandmother to Ebola. At least 3,700 children in West Africa have lost one or both parents to the disease since the start of the outbreak. Photo: UNICEF/Jo Dunlop More >>
South Sudan: UN Agencies Reach More than Half a Million
Wednesday, 1 October 2014, 12:58 pm | UN News
South Sudan: UN Agencies Reach More than Half a Million People with Life-Saving Aid More >>
Israel’s Netanyahu Warns Against ‘Militant Islam’
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 3:30 pm | UN News
29 September 2014 – From the podium of the General Assembly today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the world of the grave threat he said it faced from militant Islam’s desire to dominate the planet, be they Sunni extremists or ... More >>
NZ Voices Support for Small Island Developing Nations
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 3:22 pm | UN News
Foreign Minister Murray McCully of New Zealand addresses the General Assembly. UN Photo/Kim Haughton More >>
World Grossly Ill-Prepared to Deal Ebola Outbreak
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 3:16 pm | UN News
World Grossly Ill-Prepared to ‘Douse Wildfire’ Sparked by Ebola, West African Leaders Tell UN More >>
Head of New UN Ebola Emergency Mission Arrives in Ghana
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 3:12 pm | UN News
On the eve of his departure for Ghana to begin work at the helm of the UN's new Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), mission chief Anthony Banbury speaks with the UN press corps in New York. UN Photo/Yubi Hoffmann More >>
Perpetrators of Extra-Judicial Killings in Mexico
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 3:08 pm | UN News
29 September 2014 – The Government of Mexico must “fully investigate, prosecute, and punish” all cases of extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions, a United Nations independent human rights expert stressed today, as he welcomed the country’s ... More >>
Not a Single Child Untouched by Recent Gaza Conflict
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 2:46 pm | UN News
Palestinian children weep at the funeral for their loved ones in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip (15 July 2014). Credit: UNICEF/El Baba More >>
Pacific Islands Facing ‘Existential Threats’
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 2:44 pm | UN News
Joe Natuman, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu, addresses the General Assembly. UN Photo/Cia Pak More >>
World Needs ‘Paradigm Shift’ towards Sustainable Agriculture
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 2:41 pm | UN News
29 September 2014 – In order to move towards more sustainable agriculture, a broader approach is needed to overhaul the world’s food system, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) said today, as he pressed for a ... More >>
Victims of ISIL Brutality 'Waiting on Us to Act'
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 2:33 pm | UN News
Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moualem of Syria addresses the General Assembly. UN Photo/Cia Pak More >>
ROK:UN Meeting Tackles Safe Use of Living Modified Organisms
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 2:30 pm | UN News
Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias. UN Photo/Maria Elisa Franco More >>
DPR Korea, Says Reunification ‘Only Way to Prevent War...'
Monday, 29 September 2014, 4:40 pm | UN News
Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea addresses the General Assembly. UN Photo/Kim Haughton More >>
Small Island Nations Sound Climate Alarm at UN
Monday, 29 September 2014, 4:21 pm | UN News
King Tupou VI of the Kingdom of Tonga addresses the General Assembly. UN Photo/Cia Pak More >>
Ebola:UN Readies to Start Work as Death Toll Surpasses 3,000
Monday, 29 September 2014, 4:13 pm | UN News
Ebola response: medical supplies, including protective equipment and essential medicine, are loaded onto trucks at the Lungi International Airport in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone. Photo: UNICEF/Sulaiman Stephens More >>
Syria/Iraq: Some 330,000 to Seek Refugee Status
Monday, 29 September 2014, 4:09 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 >>
Guinean Journalists Killed Raising Awareness on Ebola
Monday, 29 September 2014, 4:02 pm | UN News
A team of volunteers in Gbaneh Bana Village, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone, discussing Ebola prevention with a family. Photo: WHO/S. Gborie More >>
'No Other Option But to Defeat ISIL..' Iraqi Leader Tells UN
Monday, 29 September 2014, 3:57 pm | UN News
26 September 2014 – While the Iraqi people were determined to defend their land of against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – “an infamous group that has taken terror to a new era and a new level” – the country's President ... More >>
