New York, Feb 7 (JEN): The United Nations and the African Union (AU) affirmed their common commitment “to put an end to history’s oldest and least condemned crime” by signing landmark ...

New York, Feb 7 (JEN): Government and opposition forces in Syria are committing war crimes by using civilian suffering, such as blocking access to food, water and health services, as a metho ...

New York, Feb 7 (JEN): The United Nations on Thursday welcomed a long-sought accord to let in convoys with life-saving supplies for 500 Syrian families trapped by war in the Old City of Homs ...

New York, Feb 6 (JEN): Senior United Nations officials on Wednesday welcomed parliamentary approval of an amnesty law covering acts of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) datin ...

New York, Feb 6 (JEN): Spain should investigate alleged atrocities committed in its 1930s Civil War and under the regime of Francisco Franco that followed, a United Nations independent exper ...

New York, Feb 6 (JEN): The Syrian Government moved the majority of content from its 34 national museums into safe havens, a senior United Nations official on Wednesday said, warning that the ...

New York, Feb 6 (JEN): The United Nations envoy to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, strongly condemned the attack on the country’s foreign ministry on Wednesday which killed and injured a number o ...

New York, Feb 6 (JEN): The number of people displaced by the civil war inside Syria is expected to nearly double from some 3.5 million on Wednesday to 6.5 million by the end of the year, a s ...

New York, Feb 5 (JEN): Concerned that some Thai people were unable to vote after national elections were reportedly disrupted by protests over the weekend, United Nations Secretary-General B ...