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UN: Gross Rights Abuses Committed In South Sudan Conflict
Friday, 9 May 2014, 2:55 pm | UN News
Gross human rights abuses have been committed by both sides in the brutal conflict that erupted in South Sudan at the end of last year, including rapes, mass killings and torture, and, according to a new United Nations report released today, civilians ... More >>
UN: Many People Still Lack Basic Drinking Water & Sanitation
Friday, 9 May 2014, 2:47 pm | UN News
Despite a narrowing disparity in access to cleaner water and better sanitation between rural and urban areas, sharp inequalities still persist around the world, says a new United Nations report. More >>
Afghanistan: UN Urges Support For Vulnerable Communities
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 3:54 pm | UN News
In the wake of last week’s massive landslide in north-eastern Afghanistan, a senior United Nations relief official today voiced deep concern about the impact of conflict and natural disasters in the country, and urged the world to step up support to vulnerable ... More >>
South Sudanese Refugees Flooding Into Ethiopia -UN Agency
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 3:50 pm | UN News
Waves of South Sudanese women and children are fleeing across the Ethiopian border, with more than 11,000 people crossing in the past 72 hours, the United Nations refugee agency today said confirming that UN agencies and humanitarian partners are rushing ... More >>
Report: UN’s Financial Situation ‘Generally Positive’
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 3:47 pm | UN News
The top United Nations management official reported today that at the end of 2013, the Organization,s financial situation was “generally sound”, but cautioned that the cash flow would get tighter in the final months of 2014, as several major contributors ... More >>
UN Urges Eritrean Government To End Arbitrary Arrests
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 3:42 pm | UN News
The Government of Eritrea needs to put an immediate end to the widespread practices of arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment and persecution, says an independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to look into the situation in the country. More >>
Non Communicable Diseases Increase Pregnancy Risk –UN Agency
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 3:33 pm | UN News
Rates of maternal deaths are down, according to United Nations figures released today, but pre-existing medical conditions heighten the risk of death for pregnant women and require continued investment in quality care during pregnancy and childbirth. More >>
Boko Haram Warned Over Proposed Sale Of Nigerian Scoolgirls
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 3:16 pm | UN News
The United Nations human rights office today lashed out at the militant group known as Boko Haram which claimed responsibility for kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria and now, referring to the girls as “slaves”, says it plans to sell ... More >>
UN ‘Disappointed’ By Ruling In DR Congo Mass Rape Trial
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 3:11 pm | UN News
Disappointed by the ruling of a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) military court which acquitted close to half of the 39 Congolese soldiers accused of mass rape in 2012, the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said today the decision fell ... More >>
UN Chief Arrives In Juba To Meet With Community Leaders
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 3:05 pm | UN News
UN Chief Arrives In Strife-Torn South Sudan For High-Level Talks, Meeting With Community Leaders More >>
UN Rights Chief Urges Resolution To Violence In Ukraine
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 2:56 pm | UN News
Increasing violence in eastern and southern Ukraine is resulting in more and more death and destruction, the top United Nations human rights official said today, calling on all sides in the conflict to make a greater effort to find a peaceful resolution, ... More >>
Security Council Decries Terrorist Attack in Yemeni Capital
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 1:53 pm | UN News
The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned today’s deadly terrorist attack in Sana’a, as well as other recent terrorist attacks in Yemen, and stressed its support for President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi and his Government to combat terrorism. More >>
Internet Well On Way to 3 Billion Users - UN Telecom Agency
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 1:50 pm | UN News
Releasing new statistics today, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced that by end 2014, there will be nearly three billion Internet users – two-thirds of them from the developing world – with mobile-broadband ... More >>
UN Helps Rescue Shipwrecked Passengers in Eastern DR Congo
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 12:01 pm | UN News
At least one person died and 10 others are missing after a boat capsized in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the country (MONUSCO) reported today, announcing that its peacekeepers rushed to the scene of ... More >>
Syria: Gunfire Impedes Food Delivery to Palestinian Refugees
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 12:00 pm | UN News
Gunfire stopped distribution of food today in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp, a United Nations spokesperson confirmed today, reiterating demands that the UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees be allowed to safely and without interruption distribute ... More >>
South Sudan: Fighting, Injuries in Restive Unity State
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 11:59 am | UN News
Fighting with heavy and small arms fire resumed today in South Sudan’s Unity state where United Nations peacekeepers are protecting some 23,000 displaced civilians, a UN spokesperson confirmed. More >>
Afghanistan: UN Visits Landslide-Hit North-Eastern Province
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 11:58 am | UN News
Following a visit today to the site of the massive landslide which killed hundreds in north-eastern Afghanistan late last week, two senior United Nations humanitarian officials highlighted the longer-term needs of people displaced by natural disasters ... More >>
In Abu Dhabi, UN Chief Urges Leadership on Climate Change
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 11:57 am | UN News
With the ominous and costly impacts of climate change profoundly evident, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today that too many stakeholders are still “sitting on the fence”, and he challenged participants at a climate conference ... More >>
UN Agency Declares Global Health Emergency to Stop Polio
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 11:56 am | UN News
The spread of polio in countries where it was once eradicated is an “extraordinary event” and unless an international coordinated response is urgently put in place, the preventable disease will resurge, the United Nations health agency today warned. More >>
Bangui: UN Peacekeeping Chief Discusses roll out of MINUSCA
Monday, 5 May 2014, 3:44 pm | UN News
The head of United Nations peacekeeping operations continued today his visit to the Central African Republic (CAR), where he met a range of stakeholders and pledged that "no effort will be spared" towards full deployment of a newly mandated 12,000-strong ... More >>
