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Water shut-offs in US city of Detroit prompt outcry from UN
Friday, 27 June 2014, 3:32 pm | UN News
Widespread water shut-offs in US city of Detroit prompt outcry from UN rights experts More >>
UN urge Israel not to legalize force-feeding
Friday, 27 June 2014, 3:26 pm | UN News
The independent United Nations experts dealing with torture and the right to health today urged the Israeli parliament not to authorize the force-feeding and medical treatment of prisoners on hunger strike against their will. More >>
llegal trade in wildlife & timber products funding criminals
Wednesday, 25 June 2014, 4:03 pm | UN News
Global environmental crime, possibly worth more than $200 billion annually, is helping finance criminal, militia and terrorist groups and threatening the security and sustainable development of many nations, notably in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new joint ... More >>
Ban says Israelis, Palestinians Must Show Restraint
Wednesday, 25 June 2014, 3:32 pm | UN News
Israeli soldiers search a Palestinian's car at the Hawera checkpoint outside the town of Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: IRIN/Kobi Wolf More >>
UN chief hopes Ukraine peace plan will reduce violence
Wednesday, 25 June 2014, 3:14 pm | UN News
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hailed a peace plan put forward by Ukraine's President, Petro Poroshenko, and said he hopes it will reduce violence and tensions in the eastern part of the country. More >>
UN rights chief condemns sentencing of journalists in Egypt
Tuesday, 24 June 2014, 3:34 pm | UN News
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed deep concern over a string of recent court decisions in Egypt, including the verdicts and heavy jail sentences handed down today to three Al Jazeera ... More >>
Iraq: UN advisors warn of impact on minorities
Monday, 23 June 2014, 5:03 pm | UN News
Iraq: As violence spreads, UN advisors warn of impact on minorities, agencies support fleeing throngs More >>
UN in Afghanistan describes mutilation of voters
Monday, 16 June 2014, 3:55 pm | UN News
The top United Nations official in Afghanistan today strongly condemned what appears to be punishment doled out by the Taliban to nearly a dozen of people who had their index fingers cut off after voting in the presidential run-off. More >>
UN flag violence, abuse of older women accused of witchcraft
Monday, 16 June 2014, 3:53 pm | UN News
Did you know violence and abuse against elderly women, the worlds fastest growing demographic group, range from sexual violence, property grabbing, financial abuse and increasingly, extreme violence against older women accused of witchcraft? More >>
South Sudan: UN agencies, partners appeal for $1B aid
Monday, 16 June 2014, 3:41 pm | UN News
Some 50,000 children in South Sudan could die this year and thousands of rape survivors could go without psychosocial support, a senior United Nations humanitarian official today said, as aid agencies appealed for $1 billion they need to continue their work. More >>
UN Condemns Shooting of Ukrainian Plane 49 Aboard Killed
Monday, 16 June 2014, 3:39 pm | UN News
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned in the strongest terms the downing of a Ukrainian military airplane today in the eastern city of Lugansk, killing all 49 people aboard. More >>
World Blood Donor Day, UN Appeals for Blood to Save Mothers
Monday, 16 June 2014, 3:36 pm | UN News
With nearly 800 women dying every day from causes related to complications of pregnancy and childbirth, the United Nations health agency is marking World Blood Donor Day by calling on countries to improve access to safe blood supplies and blood transfusions ... More >>
UN Urge Mauritanian Authorities to Protect Activist
Monday, 16 June 2014, 3:33 pm | UN News
The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Mauritania to protect prominent human rights activist Aminetou Mint El-Moctar who has become the focus of a social media campaign encouraging anyone who “kills her or tears out ... More >>
UN: Alarmingly High Levels of Elephant Poaching in Africa
Monday, 16 June 2014, 3:28 pm | UN News
The level of elephant poaching across Africa remains alarmingly high, according to a new United Nations-backed report release today, which also found an increase in the number of large seizures of ivory. More >>
Egypt: UN concerned by harsh sentences handed to activists
Monday, 16 June 2014, 2:41 pm | UN News
Egypt’s judicial system has again come up short, the United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) warned today after a criminal court handed down a harsh jail sentence for 25 activists, including prominent blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, reportedly for ... More >>
Iraq’s insurgency spreads, Increase in Reported Abuses
Monday, 16 June 2014, 2:37 pm | UN News
As insurgents continue to overrun parts of northern Iraq, the United Nations human rights chief expressed “extreme alarm” today at reports of summary executions and extrajudicial killings, and the massive displacement of some half a million people, ... More >>
CAR: UN Appeals for Safe Haven for Civilian Refugees
Monday, 16 June 2014, 2:33 pm | UN News
As ongoing violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) continues to drive civilians to seek safety elsewhere, the United Nations refugee agency is appealing to neighbouring countries to keep their borders open and allow access to safe haven for people on ... More >>
UN: Stability of Nigeria, Lake Chad Basin Region
Monday, 16 June 2014, 2:30 pm | UN News
While efforts are underway to safely release the abducted Nigerian school girls, more civilians are killed and many others are being displaced by Boko Haram insurgents, the United Nations envoy for West Africa today warned, reiterating the Organization’s ... More >>
Human Rights essential to Reconciliation in Thailand Crisis
Monday, 16 June 2014, 2:24 pm | UN News
13 June 2014 – Stability and reconciliation can hardly be achieved in Thailand if human rights guarantees are neglected, a group of United Nations independent experts declared today, while urging the current authorities to reverse all measures affecting ... More >>
Modern slavery: New International Agreement on Forced Labour
Monday, 16 June 2014, 2:21 pm | UN News
A group of United Nations independent experts on slavery, migrants, trafficking, sale and sexual exploitation of children, and internally displaced persons today welcomed this week’s adoption of a legally binding international Protocol to tackle ... More >>
