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Myanmar military target civilians in helicopter attack
Saturday, 6 April 2019, 12:06 pm | United Nations
Myanmar military target civilians in deadly helicopter attack, UN rights office issues war crimes warning More >>
UN expert on privacy plans to visit Julian Assange
Saturday, 6 April 2019, 11:05 am | United Nations
GENEVA (5 April 2018) - The Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Joe Cannataci, plans to meet Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on 25 April after receiving assurances from the Government of Ecuador that it will facilitate his visit to the country’s ... More >>
UN expert on torture alarmed at Assange reports
Saturday, 6 April 2019, 11:03 am | United Nations
GENEVA (5 April 2019) – The UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer is alarmed by reports that Julian Assange may be expelled imminently from the Embassy of Ecuador in London, saying he intended to personally investigate the case. More >>
UN committed ‘to support the Libyan people’
Saturday, 6 April 2019, 11:00 am | United Nations
The United Nations Secretary-General left Libya on Friday voicing his hope that the divided country can “avoid a bloody confrontation” in and around the capital Tripoli. More >>
Welfare of the Libyan people is sole agenda for the country
Friday, 5 April 2019, 11:40 am | United Nations
Helping to promote a “Libyan-led and Libyan owned political solution” to resolve years of instability and insecurity there that puts the “welfare of the Libyan people” first, is the sole agenda of the United Nations within the country, Secretary-General ... More >>
Acute food insecurity ‘far too high’ UN agency warns
Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 11:23 am | United Nations
Approximately 113 million people in 53 countries experienced high levels of food insecurity last year, according to a new joint UN and European Union (EU) report released on Tuesday, which warns that these crises are primarily driven by conflict ... More >>
Wars have rules: 5 things the UN wants countries to tackle
Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 11:42 am | United Nations
1 April 2019 Humanitarian Aid With the rights and lives of millions of women, children and men uprooted by conflict every year, the UN Security Council held a special meeting on Monday to examine ways to promote and strengthen the rule of law, especially in ... More >>
Full transcript of UN Secretary-General's remarks
Friday, 29 March 2019, 10:43 am | United Nations
Good afternoon of the media. Thank you very much for your presence. I have to say that, as Secretary-General of the United Nations, I am very proud of the work of the World Meteorological Organization. It provides a very solid, scientific base ... More >>
Yemen hospital airstrike investigation, cholera resurgence
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 2:04 pm | United Nations
UN human rights staff in Yemen are investigating an apparent airstrike on a hospital in opposition-held territory which reportedly killed at least seven civilians on Tuesday, amid fears that cholera is spreading “like wildfire”, one of the organization’s ... More >>
UN forum opens with call to inclusion, empowerment, equality
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 1:40 pm | United Nations
Bangkok ( ESCAP news ) – The Sixth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) opened in Bangkok today with a resounding call for bolder steps to be taken to ensure greater empowerment, inclusiveness and equality, if the region is to realize ... More >>
Plans for UK’s Seven Sisters market pose rights threat
Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 1:57 pm | United Nations
Plans to redevelop UK’s Seven Sisters market pose human rights threat, say UN experts More >>
Dismantle ‘specious notion of racial superiority’ urges UN
Tuesday, 26 March 2019, 9:59 am | United Nations
Raise awareness of the dangers of racism and “stand up against old and new forms of slavery” was the resounding message of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday during a special event marking the International Day of Remembrance ... More >>
More children killed by unsafe water, than bullets
Friday, 22 March 2019, 1:33 pm | United Nations
A lack of safe water, is far deadlier for children than war in more than a dozen conflict-affected countries, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday, in a report launched to coincide with World Water Day, marked on 22 March. More >>
Brazil must ensure justice for rights defender
Friday, 15 March 2019, 9:50 am | United Nations
GENEVA / WASHINGTON DC (14 March 2019) – Brazil must ensure that the killers of human rights defender and city councillor Marielle Franco are brought to justice, say a group of human rights experts* on the anniversary of her death. More >>
UN report details horrors of western DRC violence
Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 10:46 am | United Nations
GENEVA (12 March 2019) – A special investigative mission to Yumbi territory in Mai-Ndombe province, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, found that horrific intercommunal attacks carried out between 16 and 18 December 2018 at four ... More >>
Annual UN women activists’ summit opens
Tuesday, 12 March 2019, 10:16 am | United Nations
A wheelchair-bound Pakistani mother who yearned to visit a park without worrying about ramp access, and a young South Sudanese woman who dreams of having affordable health care, were among the speakers opening the United Nation’s largest annual ... More >>
Guterres leads tributes to UN workers
Tuesday, 12 March 2019, 10:06 am | United Nations
United Nations flags flew at half-mast around the world on Monday to honour the more than 150 people killed in Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash, including at least 21 UN workers. More >>
UN Secretary-General on the Ethiopian Airlines crash
Monday, 11 March 2019, 1:07 pm | United Nations
The Secretary-General was deeply saddened at the tragic loss of lives in the airplane crash today near Addis Ababa. He conveys his heartfelt sympathies and solidarity to the victims’ families and loved ones, including those of United Nations staff ... More >>
Women still struggle to find a job, let alone reach the top
Friday, 8 March 2019, 10:02 am | United Nations
Women’s job opportunities have barely improved since the early 1990s, UN labour experts said on Thursday, warning that female workers are still penalized for having children and looking after them. More >>
Children still dying in Yemen war, despite partial ceasefire
Sunday, 3 March 2019, 2:17 pm | United Nations
Responding to the violent deaths of five children in the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah on Thursday, Henrietta Ford, Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ), said that Yemen’s civil war continues to take a “horrific toll” ... More >>
