New York, Jan 31 (JEN): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday extended the long-running United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until Jul 31, 2014, noting that ...

New York, Jan 31 (JEN): Unless the security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) improves, humanitarian agencies will not have sufficient access to people in the provinces outside ...

New York, Jan 30 (JEN): More than 400,000 people have been displaced recently in the so-called “Triangle of Death” – the area between the towns of Pweto, Mitwaba and Manono – in the ...

New York, Jan 30 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the establishment of a new transition Government in the Central African Republic (CAR), and urged determine ...

New York, Jan 30 (JEN): Noting that the recent conflict in South Sudan has rolled back development gains made over the past two years since independence, the top United Nations humanitarian ...

New York, Jan 30 (JEN): A halt to fighting does not necessarily end a conflict, the top United Nations political official told the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Wednesday, detailin ...

New York, Jan 29 (JEN): The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom Tuesday condemned the separate killings of four television journalists in Pakistan and Iraq ...

New York, Jan 29 (JEN): Amid reports that riot police have been deployed in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to break up anti-Government protests, the United Nations labour agency Tuesday u ...

New York, Jan 29 (JEN): An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged the Rwandan Government to lift undue restrictions on the freedoms of peaceful assembly and association so ...