With message for
freedom, jazz beat heard around the world – UNESCO
30 April 2018
Jazz speaks to people from all linguistic,
political and economic backgrounds, the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said Monday, praising the art form for its
ability to promote peace, diversity, and respect for human dignity.
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Aye Win/UNIC Yangon
30 April 2018
The United Nations Security Council is
continuing its mission to Bangladesh and Myanmar, taking a first-hand look at
the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled across
the border to escape violence.
UNEP GRID
Arendal/Lawrence Hislop
30 April 2018
The latest round of United Nations climate
change negotiations began on Monday in Bonn, Germany, to further
develop the “operating manual” for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris
Agreement, which aims to keep temperature rises this century, well below 2
degrees Celsius.
ILO/Vijay Kutty
30 April 2018
More than 61 per cent of the world’s employed
population – two billion people – earn their livelihoods in the informal
sector, the United Nations labour agency said on Monday, stressing that a
transition to the formal economy is critical to ensure rights’ protection and
decent working conditions.
UNAMA/Ari Gaitanis
30 April 2018
Strongly condemning terrorist attacks in the
Afghan capital, Kabul, and in Kandahar, senior United Nations officials,
including Secretary-General António Guterres, underscored the need to bring
those behind the attacks to justice.
AMISOM/Tobin Jones
28 April 2018
The United Nations Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)
has condemned the suicide bombing on Saturday that reportedly killed government
security officers and civilians in the city of Gaalkacyo.
UN Photo/Martine
Perret
27 April 2018
The Security Council on Friday extended the
mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara until 31
October 2018, calling for a “realistic, practicable and enduring” political
solution to end the decades‑old conflict.
Olivia Headon/IOM
27 April 2018
The lives of tens of thousands of Rohingya
refugees hang in the balance as monsoon and cyclone seasons threaten camps in
southern Bangladesh, the United Nations migration agency warned Friday,
appealing for urgent financial support to prepare the area against floods and
landslides.
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UN
News/María Morera
27 April 2018
Students from around the world joined United
Nations and Government officials in New York on Friday to celebrate the
contributions made by the people of African descent, beginning from the time
they were taken from their countries and forced into generations of servitude.
OCHA/Cecilia Attefors
27 April 2018
Surging violence in parts of South Sudan is
putting thousands of war-weary civilians at risk and endangering the fragile
peace process in the world’s youngest nation, the United Nations peacekeeping
mission there has warned.
UNHCR/Achilleas
Zavallis
27 April 2018
Some 2,900 mostly Syrian and Iraqi families
have arrived in Evros this month, with eight others losing their lives trying
to cross the Evros River from Turkey – prompting the United Nations refugee
agency to call on the Greek Government to improve the conditions at its
reception area.
UNHCR/Paul Smith
27 April 2018
The United Nations emergency food relief
agency has issued an urgent appeal for nearly $46 million to feed some 350,000
impoverished migrants who crossed the border from Venezuela into Colombia, as
well as host communities with pre-existing vulnerabilities.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc
Ferré
27 April 2018
With over 40 Palestinians killed and more than
5,500 injured during protests in Gaza over the past month – many by live
ammunition – the top United Nations human rights official on Friday called on
Israel to ensure that its security forces do not resort to use of excessive
force amid the ongoing demonstrations.
Inter-Korean Summit
Press Corps
27 April 2018
Following Friday’s summit between the leaders
of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea,
Secretary-General António Guterres and other top officials expressed hope that
the two countries would swiftly implement all agreed actions, including ridding
the Peninsula of nuclear weapons.
27 April 2018
United Nations human rights experts have
expressed serious concerns about racism rooted in the fabric of the United
Kingdom’s society, given the disproportionate number of people of African
descent and of ethnic minorities dying due to excessive use of force by State
security.
FAO/Alessia
Pierdomenico
26 April 2018
Not just any peppers, but white Penja peppers,
grown in volcanic soil in the Cameroon; not just any cabbage, but Futog
cabbage, cultivated alongside the Danube in Serbia. The rising number of
products with a specific and certified geographic origin, it turns out, not
only have cachet among gourmands: they are also providing large economic and
social benefits to rural areas and can foster sustainable development,
according to a new study released by the UN agriculture agency.
UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
26 April 2018
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is continuing
with no prospects for a political resolution and “Gaza is about to explode,” a
senior United Nations official said Thursday, urging both sides to avoid
further clashes along the enclave’s border.
ITU/D.Woldu
26 April 2018
From Switzerland to Somalia girls are creating
their own apps; they are programming the robots they build. On Girls in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
Day, the United Nations is urging more girls to pursue careers in the
fast-paced science and tech industry, generally regarded as a ‘boys-only’ club.
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WIPO/Yuji Okuma
26 April 2018
The United Nations agency behind World
Intellectual Property Day is calling for greater participation
of women in the field of innovation and creativity to reap maximum benefits for
society.
UNAMA/PS
26 April 2018
Sitting for green tea with Habiba Gulustani
and her fellow activists provides a lesson in peace, conflict and patience.
With her anxious six-year-old daughter spinning on her lap, she has the added
disquiet of knowing that her city – Kunduz – was overrun in 2015 and again
briefly in 2016 by insurgents, who still encircle the city. The few small
airplanes that land here make a classic “corkscrew” landing – from a high
altitude and quickly looping down – as a special precaution against potential
ground fire.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc
Ferré
26 April 2018
The United Nations human rights chief on
Thursday expressed hope that Ethiopia continues its economic development in
which human rights are respected and people can freely speak their minds about
public policies.
IAEA/Petr Pavlicek
25 April 2018
A quarter of all thyroid cancer cases among
patients who were children at the time of the Chernobyl accident 32 years ago,
are “probably” due to high doses of radiation received during and after the
event, the United Nations body reviewing the effects of atomic radiation on
human health and the environment has said.
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UN Photo/Evan
Schneider
25 April 2018
Peacebuilding and sustaining peace
require a more coherent United Nations strategy, as well a ‘quantum
leap’ in funding activities that prevent the outbreak, escalation, continuation
and recurrence of conflict, Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday.
CTBTO
25 April 2018
The world’s nuclear proliferation watchdog has
welcomed the announcement by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
to suspend its nuclear and missile tests and shut down its Punggye-ri atomic
test site.
Dominic Sansoni/World
Bank
UN-backed
programme logs record high cocaine seizures at seaports in Latin America and
the Caribbean
25 April 2018
UN-trained law enforcement units have
intercepted huge shipments of illegal drugs being trafficked through
seaports this year, including 2.8 tons of cocaine at Brazil’s Port Santos, the
largest such seizure in the port’s history
UNICEF/Romenzi
25 April 2018
International donors at a United
Nations-European Union humanitarian conference pledged nearly $4.4 billion on
Wednesday to fund critical aid programmes in war-torn Syria throughout 2018.
UNICEF/Adenike
Ademuyiwa
25 April 2018
Marking World Malaria Day, the head of the
United Nations health agency on Wednesday stressed the need to get the global
response against the disease back on track while acknowledging progress that
had helped avert millions of malaria deaths, especially among children,
since 2000.
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UNESCO
24 April 2018
With one in four of the world’s 1.2 billion
youth affected by some sort of violence or armed conflict, the United Nations
on Tuesday launched a project to support new, youth-driven initiatives in
education, science, culture and the media to prevent violent extremism in
Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
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ESCAP Photo
24 April 2018
Economic losses to disasters in Asia and the
Pacific could exceed $160 billion annually by 2030, the United Nations
development arm in the region warned on Tuesday, urging greater innovation in
disaster risk financing.
UNICEF/Souleiman
24 April 2018
With the conflict in Syria into its eighth
bloody year and human suffering worsening by the day, the United Nations and
partners on Tuesday made a major appeal for additional funds, as well as for
reinvigorating the stalled UN-led Geneva talks.
UNICEF/Dejongh
24 April 2018
At the start of World Immunization Week ,
the United Nations on Tuesday said that while vaccines are protecting more
children than ever, more countries need to make immunization a priority,
because more than one million children still die every year from
vaccine-preventable diseases.
UN Photo/Violaine
Martin (file)
24 April 2018
United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres has expressed his concern about the casualties in recent protests in
Nicaragua, and called for restraint on all sides.
UN Photo/Evan
Schneider
24 April 2018
Calling for more diplomacy, dialogue and
mediation to head off conflicts before they break out, United Nations officials
urged a gathering of world leaders on Tuesday to help strengthen a new approach
to sustaining peace, which aims to put prevention at the heart of the UN’s
work.
UNHCR/Gordon Welters
24 April 2018
A newly-launched action plan that
encourages employers to expand job opportunities for refugees aims to be a
“win-win situation” for both sides, as well as host communities, according to a
senior United Nations official.
UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
24 April 2018
Following the resignation of Armenia’s Prime
Minister in the wake of mass protests, United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres has called for the continued respect of the rule of law and human
rights, as well as for the maintenance of peace and stability in Armenia and
the wider region.
World Meteorological
Organization
23 April 2018
Harmony with Nature – living a better
quality of life while minimizing the use of toxic materials and preserving
natural resources – was the focus of the International Mother Earth Day
celebration Monday at the United Nations.
UNMIL/Christopher
Herwig
23 April 2018
Top United Nations officials have underscored
the importance of security sector reform, which they say could mean the
difference between peace and conflict, and between life and death.
UN Photo/Violaine
Martin (file)
23 April 2018
United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres has called for a prompt, effective and transparent investigation into
recent airstrikes on civilians in Yemen, which claimed at least 50 lives,
including children, and injured many others
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UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
23 April 2018
The United Nations will support countries’
path to sustainable development by brokering partnerships, pursuing innovative
finance, leveraging resources and building the necessary capacities, senior
officials said Monday, highlighting the need for a change of mind-set from
“short-termism” to long-term investments.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc
Ferre
23 April 2018
The United Nations disarmament chief said on
Monday that the world today faces similar challenges to the context that gave birth
to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and that the
threat of use of nuclear weapons is growing.
UN Photo/Eric
Kanalstein
23 April 2018
Tapping the potential and creativity of young
people is indispensable to prevent conflict and build peace, the United Nations
youth envoy said Monday, urging governments to create conditions that allow
their meaningful participation in civic and political lives.
Photo: Moa Haeggblom
23 April 2018
The unity within the Security Council played
an essential role in creating the positive momentum that led to a decision by
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to suspend nuclear tests and
launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, the United Nations chief said
Monday, noting however that the 15-member body has so far failed to achieve
such unity to tackle the Syrian crisis.
UN Photo/Violaine
Martin
23 April 2018
A photojournalist who has been in jail for
nearly five years after being arrested for covering a demonstration in Cairo
has been selected to receive this year’s press freedom prize from the UN
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
UN Photo.
22 April 2018
Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday described
his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld as his “fundamental inspiration,” who should
be regarded as the “central reference” point for the whole United Nations ideal
today.
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href=http://bit.ly/2fXt24D>UNEP GRID Arendal/Peter Prokosch</a>
22 April 2018
The UN Special Envoy for Climate Action,
Michael Bloomberg, announced on Sunday a contribution of $4.5 million to
the Organization’s Climate Change Secretariat, the UNFCCC.
ICRC/Khalid al-Saeed
22 April 2018
The United Nations Secretary-General has condemned
Sunday’s killing of a senior staff member working for the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen, who was attacked while travelling
in a vehicle on the outskirts of Taiz.
22 April 2018
A suicide attack on a voter-registration
centre in the Afghan capital Kabul which left at least 30 dead on Sunday, has
been condemned by the United Nations mission in the country, UNAMA.
Photo: Moa Haeggblom
21 April 2018
The members of the United Nations Security
Council need to find a way to unite and punish anyone found to have used chemical
weapons in Syria, in line with international law.
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UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
21 April 2018
Following the announcement by the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) that it will end its nuclear and missile
tests, United Nations chief António Guterres said on Saturday that the “path is open for the peaceful
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”
OCHA/Ivo Brandau (file
photo)
20 April 2018
Africa’s attempts to achieve health for all by
2030 could be threatened unless the continent address the twin challenges of
undernutrition and obesity, experts attending a United Nations meeting in
Nairobi this week have warned.
OCHA/Ivo Brandau
20 April 2018
Despite warnings, Nigerian refugees and
asylum-seekers who fled Boko Haram violence continue to be returned from
Cameroon, the United Nations refugee agency has said, underscoring the need to
accord international protection to those in need.
UN Photo/Manuel Elias
‘Save peace
while it lasts,’ says General Assembly President, ahead of UN summit on
sustaining peace
20 April 2018
The world needs a new approach to peace, which
is why the United Nations General Assembly will hold a major meeting next week
to discuss ways to foster peace by focusing on conflict prevention, mediation,
dialogue and diplomacy, the 193-member body’s President has said.
FAO/Ezequiel Becerra
20 April 2018
Transforming pineapple skins into product
packaging or using potato peels for fuel may sound far-fetched, but such
innovations are gaining traction as it becomes clear that an economy based on
cultivation and use of biomass can help tackle pollution and climate change,
the United Nations agriculture agency said on Friday.
UN Photo/Amin Ismail
20 April 2018
It is Hernawan Rizky Yudhantoro’s first
deployment with an international peacekeeping operation. The Indonesian police
officer serves with the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur
(UNAMID), a region of Sudan where conflict has left some 2.7 million people
displaced and over 2 million in need of humanitarian assistance.
UN Photo/Violaine
Martin (file)
20 April 2018
United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres has condemned the kidnapping and killing of three media workers near
the border between Ecuador and Colombia, confirmed on 13 April, as well as the
subsequent kidnapping of two other Ecuadorian nationals.
UNMISS
20 April 2018
All stakeholders in South Sudan must “engage
genuinely and constructively in finding a political solution” to the conflict
there, a senior United Nations peacekeeping official said at the end of her
four-day visit.
UNICEF/Sujan
20 April 2018
The arrival of pre-monsoon rains in southern
Bangladesh has revealed an alarming level of risks for Rohingya refugees,
United Nations humanitarian agencies said on Friday, warning that they do
not have the funds needed to protect hundreds of thousands of
desperate people once the rainy season begins in earnest.
UN Photo/Albert
González Farran
19 April 2018
Commending the remarkable achievements made by
the people and Government of Liberia to consolidate lasting peace and stability
in the wake of a 1999-2003 civil war, the Security Council on Thursday asked
the United Nations Secretary-General to conduct a study of the role played by
its peacekeeping mission in resolving conflicts and other challenges the
country has faced.
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UN News/Elizabeth
Scaffidi
19 April 2018
Sometimes sparks can fly in the crossroads
between creativity and conflict. For this reason, the United Nations has an
Ombudsman, who helps guide friction into productive solutions.
UN
Photo/Eskinder Debebe
19 April 2018
In a milestone exercise that “transited the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) from weapons to politics,”
last month’s congressional elections drew millions of Colombians to the polls
amid a trend towards a reduction of electoral violence, the senior-most United
Nations official in the country said on Thursday
UN Photo/Mark Garten
19 April 2018
Were it not for the sacrifices of United
Nations peacekeepers, humanitarians and other personnel, the people who needed
urgent support in the most difficult and dangerous environments would have
experienced greater suffering, the top UN official said Thursday in an annual
memorial service for fallen colleagues.
Photo: WeRobotics
19 April 2018
Robotics may soon be a critical ally in the
fight against disease-spreading bugs, a United Nations agency said Thursday
after a successful test that eleased sterile mosquitos from aerial drones
aiming to suppress the insect that spreads Zika and other diseases.
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UNICEF/Rajat Madhok
19 April 2018
A group of United Nations human rights experts
have called on Iran to annul the death sentence against a prisoner citing
serious concerns that he was tortured in detention and did not receive a fair
trial.
UN
Photo/Eskinder Debebe
18 April 2018
A technical team sent by the Organisation for
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the
United Kingdom has identified toxic agents consistent with the UK’s initial
investigation, the top United Nations disarmament official told the Security
Council on Wednesday.
UNRWA/Alaa Ghosheh
18 April 2018
A senior United Nations humanitarian official
on Wednesday called on Israeli authorities to halt plans to demolish
Palestinian-owned structures and cease plans for the relocation of Palestinian
Bedouin communities in the West Bank.
UNICEF/Rich
18 April 2018
Two hundred and seven child soldiers have been
released by armed groups in South Sudan, part of a series of planned discharges
that should see nearly 1,000 children return home over the coming months.
UNICEF/Penttila
18 April 2018
Those who committed the most serious crimes in
Syria must be identified, and criminal case files must be built as the basis
for prosecutions, the head of a United Nations body assisting these efforts
said Wednesday.
Photo/FAO
18 April 2018
With an estimated $220 billion of the global
harvest lost to plant pests each year, the agency charged with fighting this
scourge has adopted new standards and measures to safeguard
internationally traded agricultural and forestry products.
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UN Photo/Violaine
Martin
18 April 2018
A renewed United Nations-led diplomatic push
is under way for a “meaningful relaunch” of intra-Syrian talks by the Special Envoy for Syria,
Staffan de Mistura, his office has announced.
UNAMID/Hamid
Abdulsalam
18 April 2018
With multiple crises forcing millions of
people away from their homes, United Nations agencies, Governments and partners
have launched a set of measures to strengthen protection of internally
displaced persons as well as find solutions to address their problems.
Photo: Albert Gonzalez
Farran/UNAMID
17 April 2018
More than 40 million people are displaced by
conflict and another 25 million annually by disaster – within the borders of
their own countries – with children, on average, making up over half those
numbers, the United Nations migration agency said Tuesday.
UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
17 April 2018
Despite the Security Council’s demand for
cessation of hostilities in Syria, civilians in the war-torn country continue
to bear the “enormous” cost of intense military activity by parties to the
conflict, the top United Nations relief official said Tuesday.
David
Longstreath, IRIN for OCHA
17 April 2018
Although the massive outflow of Rohingya from
Myanmar to Bangladesh grabbed worldwide headlines, the international community
must not forget that more than 400,000 of the minority group are living in dire
situations at home, a senior United Nations official said Tuesday.
Giles Clarke/UN OCHA
17 April 2018
The new United Nations envoy for war-torn
Yemen called Tuesday for all parties to the conflict to abandon preconditions
and begin negotiations, and said he would offer a new framework for talks
within the next two months.
Dominic Sansoni/World
Bank
17 April 2018
While the world economy continues to
show broad-based momentum, a new report released Tuesday by the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that there may be choppy seas
ahead, caused by increasing protectionism or tit-for-tat trade wars.
KSAMOFA
17 April 2018
The United Nations chief on Tuesday stressed
the importance of preventing terrorism by addressing the root
causes that turn grievances into destructive action, as well as the need to
sustain the world body’s funding to help countries develop their
counter-terrorism capacities.
UNICEF/Gilbertson VII
Photo
17 April 2018
Amid critical humanitarian needs in eastern
Ukraine, the United Nations migration agency on Tuesday launched a $38 million
funding appeal to reach more than 340,000 people with assistance this year – a
sharp increase over the number reached to date.
UN
Photo/Evan Schneider
16 April 2018
Protecting the land and resource rights of
indigenous peoples will not only provide security for historically exploited
groups but also help the global fights against climate change and biodiversity
loss, said speakers on Monday at the annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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16 April 2018
Internet users worldwide are becoming more
worried about their privacy online and many question the protections offered by
Internet and social media companies, a new United Nations survey has found.
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UN Photo/Mark Garten
16 April 2018
The United Nations Security Council has failed
to prevent the Rohingya refugee crisis, and the 15-member body must refer
sexual violence and other crimes against the ethnic group to the world’s top
criminal court, a Rohingya lawyer said on Monday.
Nattu
16 April 2018
Deciding upon complaints filed by Mohamed
Nasheed, the ex-President of Maldives, a United Nations human rights expert
committee has called on the Government to restore Mr. Nasheed’s right to stand
for public office, including the office of the President.
UN Photo/Harandane
Dicko
15 April 2018
The United Nations Secretary-General is
calling on political leaders in Mali to ensure those responsible for a deadly assault on peacekeepers serving in the north are
brought to justice.
UN Photo/Manuel Elias
14 April 2018
In an address to an emergency meeting of the
Security Council on Saturday, United Nations Secretary-General
António Guterres cautioned against the crisis in Syria “spiraling out of control."
UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
14 April 2018
The United Nations Secretary-General has
called on the international community to avoid actions which could escalate the crisis in Syria and
deepen the suffering of its people.
UN Photo
13 April 2018
Meeting residents of the world’s largest camp
for Somali refugees – sprawling Dadaab, located in north-eastern Kenya – the
top United Nations official for Somalia expressed his solidarity with their
situation and highlighted the gradual progress made in their home country.
UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
13 April 2018
“‘Mama Winnie’ – as she was affectionately
known – was a towering figure in the struggle against apartheid,” said Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday, during a
tribute held at United Nations Headquarters in honour of the late Winfred
‘Winnie’ Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela.
UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi
13 April 2018
United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres on Friday urged the world to reflect on the suffering of those who
perished, as well as survived, the Rwandan genocide, and resolve to prevent
such atrocities from ever happening again.
World Bank/Gerardo
Pesantez
13 April 2018
While a moderate upturn in the
world economy led to more development financing in 2017, a new United
Nations report out Friday revealed that the vast majority of investment is
still short-term oriented, putting global commitments to create
sustainable economies at risk.
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UN Photo/Manuel Elias
13 April 2018
United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres on Friday again called for the creation of an independent panel that
could determine who used chemical weapons in Syria, as the absence of such a
body increases the risks of a military escalation in a country already riven by
“confrontations and proxy wars.”
UNICEF/Vockel
13 April 2018
The first-ever international
conference to help the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
opened at the United Nations Office at Geneva on Friday amid dire warnings of a
growing humanitarian crisis in the vast African country.
UNICEF/Brown
13 April 2018
The United Nations refugee agency and the
Government of Bangladesh on Friday signed a cooperation agreement on the safe,
dignified return of Rohingya refugees to their homes in Myanmar, “once
conditions there are conducive.”
UNICEF/Abubakar
13 April 2018
At least 1,000 children have been abducted by
the Boko Haram insurgent group in northeastern Nigeria since 2013 amid repeated
attacks on schools, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Friday,
calling for an end to such violence and the release of those who have yet to be
returned.
UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
12 April 2018
Young people are prime targets of extremist
recruiters but they can also play leadership roles in fighting terrorism and
creating greater opportunities for all, said speakers at a United Nations forum
on Thursday called ‘Investing in Youth to Counter Terrorism.’
UNMISS Photo
12 April 2018
The United Nations migration agency and its
partners are set to begin a second round of an oral cholera vaccination
campaign in Malakal and Wau, South Sudan, after the initial round reached more
than 60,400 people in March of this year.
UNAMA / Fraidoon Poya
12 April 2018
Armed conflict in Afghanistan killed 763
civilians and injured 1,495 in the first three months of this year, the United
Nations mission there said Thursday.
UN News/Vibhu Mishra
12 April 2018
With some 1.3 million drivers, passengers and
pedestrians dying each year on the world’s roads, the United Nations took
a major step to address this tragedy by launching on Thursday a trust fund to
spur action that could save lives and prevent the loss of opportunity
associated with road accidents.
FAO/Cristina Coslet
12 April 2018
The United Nations and its partners are
urgently requesting $111 million in humanitarian funding to assist millions of
people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including children
whose growth has been stunted because they are not getting enough to eat.
UNHCR/Insiya Syed
12 April 2018
In 2017, about 58,000 Afghan refugees
voluntarily returned to their country after decades aboard only to be met with
protection risks and “significant” barriers to long-term reintegration into
society, two United Nations agencies working in the Asian country reported on
Thursday.
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Jean-Marc Ferré
12 April 2018
United Nations experts have urged Viet Nam not
to crackdown on civil society or stifle dissent, after the authorities jailed
several human rights defenders for “conducting activities to overthrow the
people’s government” – a charge that carries the possibility of the death
sentence or life imprisonment.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
12 April 2018
Amid the risks of the situation in Syria
“spiraling out of control,” the United Nations chief has appealed to the five
permanent members of the Security Council to break the current deadlock on
reported use of chemical weapons in the war-torn country.
UNOCHA
11 April 2018
The United Nations World Health Organization
(WHO) on Wednesday said that it has received reports that an estimated 500
patients at Syrian health facilities have exhibited signs and symptoms
consistent with exposure to toxic chemicals, after the shelling of a Damascus
suburb over the weekend.
UN Photo/Manuel Elias
11 April 2018
While Malians must ensure the successful
holding of elections this year, their priority should be the implementation of
the 2015 peace agreement, a senior United Nations official said Wednesday.
WHO/SEARO/Anuradha
Sarup
11 April 2018
Breastfeeding within the first hour of birth
protects newborns from infections and saves lives, United Nations agencies said
at the roll-out of their 10-step guidance to help new mothers and hospital
workers embrace this practical advice and give children the best possible start
in life.
UNHCR/Vania Turner
Despite drop in
numbers, desperate migrants to Europe face greater perils, UN refugee agency
reports
11 April 2018
While the number of migrants and refugees
reaching Europe declined last year, the dangers they faced along the journey in
many cases increased, according to a new report from the United Nations refugee
agency.
UNEP/GRID-Arendal/Tim
Freccia
11 April 2018
The lives of six guards and their driver were
taken Monday during an attack on the Congolese Institute for Nature
Conservation in the Virunga Park, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo – drawing condemnation from the UN agency.
MINUSCA Photo
11 April 2018
The United Nations chief has condemned the
latest killing and wounding of the world body’s peacekeepers in the Central
African Republic (CAR) during an exchange of fire with armed groups on 10
April.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
10 April 2018
Days after an alleged chemical weapons attack
in the Damascus suburb of Douma, the United Nations Security Council failed to
adopt two competing resolutions that would have established a mechanism to
investigate use of such weapons in Syria, as well as another concerning a
fact-finding mission in the war-torn country.
UNHCR/Iason Foounten
10 April 2018
Armed groups in Libya are holding thousands of
people in detention where they are being submitted to torture and other human
rights violations, according to a United Nations report published on Tuesday.
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Debebe
10 April 2018
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday
called for an end to the recurring cycles of violence and instability in
Africa’s Great Lakes region, as a senior UN official reported that some armed
groups are continuing attacks on civilians in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo.
UNICEF/Dejongh
10 April 2018
Amid a resurgence of yellow fever outbreaks,
the United Nations together with partners, has begun an ambitious campaign to
vaccinate close to one billion people against the deadly disease across 27
high-risk African countries.
UN China/Zhao Yun
10 April 2018
The world must act to spread the benefits of
globalization more fairly while avoiding the perils of protectionism, the
United Nations chief said on Tuesday.
UNHCR/Reynesson
Damasceno
10 April 2018
The United Nations migration agency on Tuesday
launched a regional action plan to bolster its response to massive population
outflows from Venezuela, amid the worsening political and socioeconomic
situation in the South American country.
UNICEF/Bell
10 April 2018
In earthquake-hit Papua New Guinea, United
Nations agencies on the ground are warning of a new looming threat: water-borne
disease outbreaks, such as that of diarrhoea and measles.
UNHCR/Bassam Diab
10 April 2018
Reports of new alleged chemical weapons attack
in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta over the weekend have been condemned by United
Nations Secretary-General
António Guterres, who on Tuesday repeated his call for the Security
Council to “find unity” on the issue and ensure accountability.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
9 April 2018
The recent escalating violence across Syria,
including allegations of chemical weapons use in a Damascus suburb, could have
consequences so devastating they are “difficult to even imagine,” a United
Nations envoy warned Monday, calling for unity among global Powers to prevent a
chain of events that could draw in actors far beyond the region.
UN Photo/Tobin Jones
9 April 2018
The United Nations can make its voice heard on
the power of sport in promoting both peace and development, a senior UN
official said Monday, urging participants at a special Headquarters event to
“bring out our inner sports fans,” and harness sport as a force for positive
change.
Dominic Chavez/World
Bank
9 April 2018
A great migration of humanity into cities is
under way, and with millions drawn to urban areas for the promise of a better
life, the main United Nations forum on population opened its annual session on
Monday examining ways to protect people on the move and help create cities that
can embrace the massive number of new arrivals.
OCHA Photo
9 April 2018
“Regardless of their ethnicity, religion and
citizenship status, we need to […] ensure that no vulnerable conflict-affected people are deprived of
safe and sustained access to humanitarian protection and assistance, Ursula
Mueller, the UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, said on Sunday at the end
of a six-day visit to Myanmar.
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UNODC
9 April 2018
The United Nations on Monday launched an
initiative to connect judges around the world so that they can learn from each
other about ways to strengthen integrity in courts, such as by preventing
corruption and undue political interference into judicial appointments and
decisions.
UN China/Zhao Yun
8 April 2018
During an official visit, United Nations
Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday met in Beijing with Xi Jinping,
President of China, where he congratulated the President on his recent
re-election.
UNICEF/2018/Amer
Almohibany
8 April 2018
Following a period of relative calm in Syria’s
Eastern Ghouta, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday
expressed deep concern over renewed violence in Douma, particularly the
alarming allegations that chemical weapons may have been used against
civilians.
MINUSMA/Harandane
Dicko
6 April 2018
Late Friday night the United Nations Security
Council condemned “in the strongest terms” an attack earlier in the day on a
vehicle of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
that killed a Nigerien peacekeeper in Gao, which is in the country's restive
north.
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UNICEF/UN0159228/Naftalin
6 April 2018
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on
Friday marked World Health Day, and the agency’s 70th anniversary, with a
strong call for universal health coverage, to ensure that all people can get
quality health services, where and when they need them, without suffering
financial hardship.
UNICEF/UNI55086/Press
6 April 2018
As the world officially remembers the
genocidal murder of 800,000 Rwandans in 1994, United Nations leaders warn that
ethnic cleansing and mass atrocities continue to blight humanity and call for
sharper action to prevent such wholesale violations.
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UNHCR/Reynesson
Damasceno
6 April 2018
The United Nations refugee agency is scaling
up its assistance to the rapidly growing number of Venezuelans arriving in
Brazil, with daily arrivals averaging 800 in recent days amid the worsening
political and socio-economic situation in their country.
Sylvain
Liechti/MINUSMA
6 April 2018
United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres and the Security Council have strongly condemned an attack on UN
peacekeepers in Mali and underscored that such attacks may amount to war crimes
under international law.
UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
5 April 2018
During a heated debate in
the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, Russia again rejected
allegations levelled by the United Kingdom that Moscow was behind a deadly
nerve-agent attack in the English city of Salisbury on 4 March.
Phil Moore/IRIN
5 April 2018
Expressing deep concern over the slow pace of
the inter-Burundian dialogue and the lack of engagement by the Government, the
United Nations Security Council called on all stakeholders, in particular the
authorities to commit to the dialogue and reach an agreement ahead of the 2020
elections.
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UN Photo/Violaine
Martin (file)
5 April 2018
United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres took note of the announcement by the National Electoral Commission on
4 April of the final results of the presidential run-off election in Sierra
Leone, the UN Spokesman said Thursday.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
5 April 2018
Activists, ambassadors and actors gathered at
the United Nations on Thursday to underline their commitment to empowering
women and girls with autism, a lifelong neurological condition that begins in
childhood and is characterized by some degree of impaired social behaviour,
communication and language.
UNIC Tokyo/Takashi
Okano
5 April 2018
Ahead of the International Day of Sport, world
renowned Japanese athletes are joining a United Nations-backed campaign to
promote global development goals through the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games
their country will host in 2020.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
5 April 2018
After last week’s deadly violence near the
Gaza fence and with fresh protests planned at the Gaza-Israel border tomorrow,
the United Nations has urged all parties to refrain from any act that could
lead to further violence or place civilians – especially children – in harm’s
way.
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5 April 2018
In 2017, solar energy dominated global
investment in new power generation like never before, according to a new United
Nations-backed report, which shows a steady move away from fossil fuel-based
power production to ‘green’ power sources.
FAO/Ryanwil Baldovino
5 April 2018
Global food prices rose for the second
consecutive month with the index for these commodities averaging 172.8 points
in March, 1.1 per cent higher than in February, the United Nations food
security agency announced Thursday.
UN Photo
4 April 2018
Recalling the life and legacy of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., who was assassinated 50 years ago today, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged the
world to build on the civil rights leader’s work for equality and social
justice.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
4 April 2018
Three years into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United
Nations continues brokering new partnerships between governments, the private
sector and civil society to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
participants told a forum at UN Headquarters on Wednesday.
AU/UN/IST/Tobin Jones
4 April 2018
The United Nations Security Council on
Wednesday strongly condemned the terrorist attack on 1 April perpetrated by the
Al-Shabaab group against the Ugandan contingent of the African Union mission in
Somalia.
UN Photo/Manuel Elias
4 April 2018
A senior United Nations official on Wednesday
stressed the need for an independent investigation to determine who used
chemical weapons in Syria, and called on the Security Council to show unity to
not let the perpetrators get away with it.
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UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
Test sample
results from Salisbury nerve agent attack expected next week – chemical weapons
watchdog
4 April 2018
Results of tests of samples collected from
individuals exposed to a nerve agent in Salisbury, the United Kingdom, are
expected to be received by early next week, the head of the United
Nations-backed body working to rid the world of chemical weapons said on Wednesday.
UNICEF/Sanadiki
4 April 2018
In Syria, the mass evacuation of civilians is
threatening to leave aid workers “overrun” and “acutely underfunded,” as
details emerge of the unparalleled destruction in urban areas like the former
ISIL-held city of Raqqa, UN senior adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday.
UNHCR/Vlad Sokhin
4 April 2018
A senior United Nations refugee agency
official warned on Wednesday about the “shocking” effects of long-term
detention on Australia-bound asylum seekers who are being held on remote
Pacific islands.
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4 April 2018
With the next phase of regionally-backed peace
talks for South Sudan scheduled for later this month, a senior United Nations
aid official in the country has urged the parties involved to find a political
compromise and allow peace to take hold in the strife-ridden country.
UNICEF/Geai
4 April 2018
A group of United Nations human rights experts
have called on the French Government to urgently provide water and sanitation
services as well as emergency shelters for migrants and asylum seekers living
in “inhumane situation” in areas along the country’s northern coast.
UN Photo/Eric
Kanalstein
4 April 2018
On the day set aside to raise awareness about
the threat of landmines, unexploded grenades and other munitions that impede
the return to normal life after conflict, United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres is urging Governments to provide political and financial support
to keep up the vital work of mine action wherever it is needed.
MINUSCA
3 April 2018
One United Nations peacekeeper was killed and
11 others were wounded early Tuesday morning when the UN Multidimensional
Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) was attacked by rebel fighters.
UN Photo/Loey Felip
3 April 2018
The United Nations has already started to
prepare for a post-peacekeeping presence in Haiti, a senior UN official said
Tuesday, stressing there are many reasons to be optimistic that the country’s
progress towards stability is now irreversible.
Giles Clarke/OCHA
3 April 2018
An appeal that raised some $2 billion to help
millions of people in Yemen was a “remarkable success of international
solidarity” for the country’s war-weary people, but aid alone will not provide
a solution to the conflict, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
said on Tuesday.
NASA
2 April 2018
Despite the deteriorating security situation,
there are some signs of progress in the field of disarmament, such as the
intention of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United
States to hold summit talks, a senior United Nations official said Monday.
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IRIN/Aminu Abubaka
2 April 2018
Denouncing an attack on civilians in Nigeria’s
restive north-east region, a senior United Nations humanitarian official has
called on all parties to the conflict to immediately cease hostilities and
ensure the protection of civilians.
UNICEF/Bell
2 April 2018
The United Nations emergency food relief
agency has airlifted over 80 metric tons of vital nutritional supplements to
Papua New Guinea – enough to feed approximately 60,000 people in the
earthquake-hit country.
UN Photo/Eskinder
Debebe
2 April 2018
On World Autism Awareness Day, United Nations Secretary-General
António Guterres has joined the global call to empower women and
girls with autism and involve them and their advocates in policy and
decision-making to address the challenges they face.
