New York, Feb 19 (JEN): The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday highlighted the need to address “significant shortcomings” in the process by which Australia moves asylum-seekers to ...

New York, Feb 19 (JEN): The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has reported that heavy fighting broke out earlier on Tuesday between pro-Government and opposition f ...

New York, Feb 19 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on Tuesday urged the Democratic People’s Republic ...

New York, Feb 17 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned Sunday's terrorist attack on a bus in the southern Sinai town of Taba, which reportedly killed fou ...

New York, Feb 15 (JEN): The United Nations human rights office on Friday, deeply concerned about the escalation of violence in Venezuela, including the death of at least three people during ...

New York, Feb 15 (JEN): The rising scale of needs, a collective inability to resolve protracted crises, and the interplay of new factors such as climate change, are making it harder for Gov ...

New York, Feb 15 (JEN): Great Lakes envoy Mary Robinson is in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, calling on authorities to fulfil their commitments to achieve lastin ...

New York, Feb 15 (JEN): The United Nations on Friday is warning against the return of 130,000 South Sudanese who have fled to neighbouring countries due to the continued violence despite la ...

New York, Feb 15 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the two Koreas to build on the momentum generated by their agreement to hold family reunions later this ...