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Adaptation Can Help Promote Sub-Saharan African Livelihoods
Thursday, 14 August 2014, 10:10 am | UN News
Investing in ways to adapt to climate change will promote the livelihood of 65 per cent of Africans, the United Nations environmental agency reported, warning also that failing to address the phenomenon could reverse decades of development progress ... More >>
UN Concerned: Last-Minute Derailment of Visit to The Gambia
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 3:20 pm | UN News
The Gambia postponed a visit at the last minute by two United Nations independent experts, a move they find “extremely worrying” and which casts doubt on the West African country’s commitment to human rights. More >>
UN: Sri Lanka deports families seek asylum
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 2:34 pm | UN News
The United Nations refugee agency today expressed alarm that recent deportations of asylum-seekers from Sri Lanka back to Pakistan were growing in size and scope despite international calls to stop sending them back to a place where their lives ... More >>
Libya: UN Mission condemns ongoing fighting
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 2:05 pm | UN News
The United Nations mission assisting Libya today condemned the battles in the capital, Tripoli, which continue despite repeated international calls for an immediate ceasefire and appeals to refrain from the use of force to resolve political differences. More >>
UN: one member unavailable to serve on Gaza Commission
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 1:48 pm | UN News
In a statement released today, the President of the Human Rights Council, Baudelaire Ndog Ella said he “regrets” that the Commission, which is now operational, will not benefit from Amal Alamuddin's expertise in the field. More >>
Celebrating Youth Day, the importance of good mental health
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 1:43 pm | UN News
Each year 20 per cent of the world's young people experience a mental health condition, the United Nations reported in a new publication launched to coincide with International Youth Day which this year shines a spotlight on the importance of mental health. More >>
In South Sudan, Security Council warns sanctions possible
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 1:31 pm | UN News
On a visit to South Sudan, the United Nations Security Council today reiterated that it is ready to impose sanctions against anyone who undermines the ongoing peace talks to stop the conflict which has uprooted some 1.5 million people and placed more than ... More >>
Ban urges countries to do more to help Iraqi civilians
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 12:27 pm | UN News
Amid spread of ‘hatred and brutality,’ Ban urges countries to do more to help Iraqi civilians More >>
Ebola: panel endorses use of experimental drugs
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 12:23 pm | UN News
A 12-member ethics panel convened by the United Nations health agency today reached “unanimous consensus” that it is ethical to treat Ebola patients with experimental drugs to counter the largest, most severe and most complex outbreak of the virus ... More >>
Gaza hospitals, health facilities need urgent donor support
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 12:01 pm | UN News
Hospitals and health facilities in Gaza are in dire need of support from the international donor community, a senior representative of the United Nations health agency today said following a visit to the Gaza Strip and Ramallah to survey the infrastructure ... More >>
First UN female force commander takes reigns in Cyprus
Tuesday, 12 August 2014, 5:56 pm | UN News
Major-General Kristin Lund signing the hand-over document with outgoing Major General Chao Liu at the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus headquarters. Photo: UNFICYP More >>
UN chief urges Iraq political leaders to form new government
Tuesday, 12 August 2014, 5:45 pm | UN News
A young girl sleeps surrounded by relatives in their new home, a primary school in Alqosh, Duhok, after fleeing their home in Mosul. Photo: UNHCR/S. Baldwin More >>
Ebola: UN convenes ethical review of experimental drugs
Tuesday, 12 August 2014, 5:37 pm | UN News
A government health worker at the Kenema Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone attends to a victim. Photo: IRIN/Tommy Trenchard More >>
Ban: indigenous peoples can be 'powerful agents of progress
Monday, 11 August 2014, 5:05 pm | UN News
Marking the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples today, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said indigenous peoples have a central interest in development and can act as “powerful agents of progress.” More >>
UN agency provides assistance: Lebanese and Syrian refugees
Monday, 11 August 2014, 5:01 pm | UN News
As violence escalates in Lebanon, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and its partners are distributing humanitarian supplies in the north-eastern Bekaa Valley to both Lebanese and Syrian refugees who had fled the town of Arsal, close to the ... More >>
UN Warns that Northern Iraq is Facing 'Cultural Cleansing'
Monday, 11 August 2014, 4:58 pm | UN News
UNHCR distributing aid near Duhok in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. Photo: UNHCR/E. Colt More >>
Ukraine: Intensifying clashes, mounting casualties
Monday, 11 August 2014, 4:54 pm | UN News
A senior United Nations human rights official today declared the situation in Eastern Ukraine “extremely alarming” with intensifying fighting, mounting casualties and serious damage to infrastructure. More >>
Clashes in north-western CAR cause renewed displacement
Monday, 11 August 2014, 4:48 pm | UN News
Fighting from 30 to 31 July in Batangafo, Central African Republic (CAR) has caused renewed displacement, according to Jens Laerke of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). More >>
Gaza: hostilities resume, Ban urges return to ceasefire
Monday, 11 August 2014, 4:43 pm | UN News
Amid renewed hostilities in Gaza, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called firmly on the parties to the conflict not to resort to further military action but “swiftly find a way back to respect of the humanitarian ceasefire and continue ... More >>
UN calls for help: thousands in northern Iraq displaced
Monday, 11 August 2014, 4:39 pm | UN News
UN calls for urgent response to help thousands in northern Iraq displaced by militants' advance More >>
