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UN Refugee Agency Sends Staff to Central African Republic
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 12:04 pm | UN News
The United Nations refugee agency said today it has deployed additional emergency teams in the Central African Republic (CAR), where some 210,000 people have been forcibly displaced by violence in the last two weeks in the embattled capital, Bangui. More >>
Syria Conference to Open 22 January in Montreux, UN Confirms
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 12:03 pm | UN News
The long-sought international peace conference on Syria is set to begin on 22 January with a one-day meeting in the Swiss town of Montreux, the United Nations confirmed today. More >>
The Philippines: UN Aids Child Victims of Typhoon Haiyan
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 12:02 pm | UN News
With the lives of nearly six million children disrupted by the typhoon that devastated the Philippines a month ago, 1.4 million of whom lost their family homes, the United Nations is forging ahead with long-term programmes to restore schooling, protection, ... More >>
Afghanistan Is Advancing Towards Stability - UN Envoy
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 12:01 pm | UN News
Despite volatility and uncertainty, Afghanistan continues to make progress in enhancing its stability as the drawdown continues for the international forces that have sought to bring security there for the past 12 years, the top United Nations envoy in the ... More >>
Sudan: UN Strengthens Support to Combating Human Trafficking
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 11:59 am | UN News
The United Nations refugee agency is working with the Government of Sudan and partners to reduce the number of kidnappings and incidents of trafficking and smuggling in, through and out of the country. More >>
Syria: Bomb Raid Kills Up To 28 Children in Aleppo
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 3:39 pm | UN News
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) voiced horror today at reports that as many as 28 Syrian children were killed in a bombing raid in Aleppo while the UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced plans to expand emergency food aid to over 7 ... More >>
Security Council Concerned At Worsening Security in Libya
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 3:38 pm | UN News
The Security Council today voiced its grave concern at the worsening security situation and political divisions in Libya which threaten to undermine the country’s democratic transition. More >>
2014 Could Be 'Moment Of Truth' For Middle East Peace
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 3:36 pm | UN News
With another release by Israel of Palestinian prisoners set for later this month, the top United Nations envoy for the Middle East urged both sides to refrain from any actions which could undermine the prospects for progress in what has been an ... More >>
DR Congo: UN Boosts Attack Force in East after Massacre
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 3:35 pm | UN News
The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sent attack helicopters and manned foot patrols into the country’s strife-torn North Kivu province after discovering the bodies of 21 civilians brutally slaughtered, including babies, ... More >>
Laos Must Probe Disappearance of Prominent Rights Activist
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 11:43 am | UN News
A group of independent United Nations experts today urged the Government of Laos to boost its investigation into the enforced disappearance a year ago of Sombath Somphone, a prominent human rights activist working on issues of land confiscation ... More >>
Killings of Broadcast Journalists in Southern Philippines
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 11:42 am | UN News
The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called on Philippine authorities to investigate the separate murders of three journalists recently attacked in the southern Philippines region of Mindanao. More >>
Calls for Calm after Shooting on Israeli-Lebanese Border
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 11:24 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored the shooting on Sunday of an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldier by a Lebanese soldier, and called for calm. The shooting occurred in the vicinity of the so-called Blue Line separating Israel and Lebanon at Naqoura, ... More >>
UN Seeks $13 Billion to Bring Life-Saving Aid in 2014
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 11:23 am | UN News
The United Nations and its partners will need nearly $13 billion in funding to reach millions of people with life-saving aid in 2014, with half of that sought for those affected by the deepening crisis in Syria. More >>
South Sudan: UN Envoy Urges Calm As Thousands Flee Violence
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 11:20 am | UN News
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan is deeply concerned about a new bout of fighting that has forced some 7,000 civilians -- many women and children -- to seek refuge at the UN base in Juba. More >>
Strife-Torn Central African Republic Faces Food Crisis
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 11:20 am | UN News
The Central African Republic (CAR), wracked by conflict that has killed thousands of people and driven more than half a million from their homes over the past year, is now facing a looming food crisis, the United Nations warned today, calling for ... More >>
One Month On, UN Renews Pledge to Help Philippines Recover
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 11:18 am | UN News
Just over a month since Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines, the United Nations and its partners today agreed on the need to act quickly to help the affected communities rebuild their lives, as well as learn lessons from the international community’s ... More >>
World Leaders Must Emulate Mandela’s Example to Bring Peace
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 11:17 am | UN News
With 2013 marked by a deterioration “beyond all imagination” in the Syrian conflict and the “imminent danger of mass atrocities” looming in the Central African Republic (CAR), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on world leaders to follow the ... More >>
Ukraine: UN Urges Restraint, Respect for Human Rights
Monday, 16 December 2013, 11:09 am | UN News
The United Nations today called on all parties in Ukraine to exercise restraint amid reports of the use of excessive force by police and violent acts by demonstrators, and urged the Government to ensure that human rights safeguards are upheld. More >>
Ban Welcomes Signing Of Declarations between DR Congo-M23
Monday, 16 December 2013, 11:08 am | UN News
The top United Nations official has welcomed the signing of long-awaited accords between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the M23 rebels it has been fighting until last month, and called on all other armed groups ... More >>
Over 600 People Killed in Central African Republic – UN
Monday, 16 December 2013, 11:07 am | UN News
The humanitarian situation in the conflict-wracked Central African Republic (CAR) is deteriorating, with 450 people killed in the capital Bangui and 159,000 others driven from their homes in Bangui, in the last week alone, United Nations agencies ... More >>
