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UN widens its same-sex marriage policy
Wednesday, 9 July 2014, 3:54 pm | UN News
The United Nations is changing how it categorizes staff personal status, allowing more same-sex couples access to the same benefits enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts. More >>
UN: Australia’s handling of Sri Lanka asylum seekers
Wednesday, 9 July 2014, 3:51 pm | UN News
The United Nations human rights office said today that is “deeply disturbed” that Australian authorities on Sunday returned to Sri Lanka 41 people seeking asylum, apparently without adequate screening of their protection claims and needs. More >>
Ban praises late Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze
Tuesday, 8 July 2014, 12:30 pm | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze for contributing to efforts to overcome the divisions of the Cold War. More >>
UN calls on Iraqi leaders to agree on Speaker
Tuesday, 8 July 2014, 12:22 pm | UN News
Ahead of tomorrow’s elections, the United Nations envoy for Iraq has called on the country’s political leaders to reach an agreement on a Speaker for the Council of Representatives as soon as possible. More >>
Palestinians in refugee camp 'will likely go hungry'
Tuesday, 8 July 2014, 12:16 pm | UN News
Unable for more than a month now to deliver food and other supplies to Palestinians trapped in a refugee camp near Damascus, the United Nations agency tasked with ensuring their well-being said today it is urgently seeking to resume its humanitarian activities, ... More >>
UN voices concern asylum-seekers intercepted
Tuesday, 8 July 2014, 12:11 pm | UN News
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today voiced deep concern after Australia handed over some 41 asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka after intercepting them at sea, and highlighted its unease with shipboard processing of protection claims. More >>
Ukraine: Ban condemns violence against civilians
Tuesday, 8 July 2014, 11:06 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the “continued, unlawful” acts of armed fighters in Ukraine after reports that they are regrouping in eastern provinces, and urged Ukrainian authorities to exercise maximum restraint and protect ... More >>
Should international refugee law accommodate climate change
Saturday, 5 July 2014, 10:23 am | UN News
Can the United Nations help to protect people seeking safety abroad if their homes and jobs are destroyed by prolonged drought, rising sea levels or other climate change-related phenomena in the same way as if they were displaced by war or human rights abuses? ... More >>
Palestinians in Syria’s Yarmouk camp without aid for 1 month
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 1:18 pm | UN News
The United Nations agency charged with ensuring the well-being of Palestinian refugees across the Middle East has warned today that, despite reports of a truce between the Syrian Government and armed groups inside Yarmouk camp, it is still unable to ... More >>
UN condemns explosion in northern Mali
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 1:12 pm | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council have strongly condemned an improvised explosive device explosion in northern Mali which killed a United Nations peacekeeper and injured six other ‘blue helmets.’ More >>
Review of probes related to UN-African Union peacekeepers
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 1:03 pm | UN News
Concerned by recent allegations against the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a review of related investigations and reviews over the last two years to determine ... More >>
Tensions rise after missing teens found dead
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 12:54 pm | UN News
With tensions mounting in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip following yesterday’s discovery of the bodies of three Israeli teenagers missing since mid-June, the United Nations is today calling strongly on all Israelis and Palestinians to exercise maximum ... More >>
UN Chief: Death penalty has no place in 21st century
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 12:49 pm | UN News
The death penalty has no place in the 21st century, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared today, calling on all States take concrete steps towards abolishing or no longer practicing this form of punishment. More >>
More than 75,000 Pakistanis flee to Afghanistan
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 12:40 pm | UN News
The ongoing Pakistani military offensive against militants in the North Waziristan tribal region has forced more than 75,000 people to flee their homes in the past two weeks, seeking shelter in neighbouring Afghanistan, the United Nations refugee ... More >>
Iraq: UN officials voice concern about abuse of women, girls
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 12:30 pm | UN News
Amid reports of deliberate targeting of women and girls in Iraq, senior United Nations officials today voiced deep concern about the deteriorating humanitarian and security situations in the country, where more than 1.2 million people have fled their homes ... More >>
Ghanaian Major General appointed to head UN observer mission
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 12:25 pm | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Major General Delali Johnson Sakyi of Ghana as the head of the United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire line between India and Pakistan. More >>
Efforts to halt Ebola’s rapid spread in West Africa
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 12:19 pm | UN News
‘Leave no stone unturned’ to halt Ebola’s rapid spread in West Africa, urges UN agency More >>
UN initiative strengthens drought monitoring
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 12:15 pm | UN News
Although drought is a “silent killer” in Asia and the Pacific, access to scientific information and knowledge remain a challenge for many countries in the region, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) said ... More >>
UN forum seeks to set stage for future global development
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 12:08 pm | UN News
As countries ramp up their efforts to achieve the set of anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ahead of the 2015 deadline, a new United Nations forum seeks to spur them on as well as to help them create the foundation ... More >>
UN panel urges action to reduce global food waste
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 12:03 pm | UN News
A newly issued United Nations-backed expert panel report takes a close look at where and how food waste occurs and recommends a number of actions that could help reduce the 1.3 billion tonnes of food that are squandered worldwide each year. More >>
