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 ...

New York, Jan 29 (JEN): Despite Burundi’s request that the United Nations mission helping it recover from decades of ethnic war end by mid-2014, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is recomm ...

New York, Jan 29 (JEN): The United Nations humanitarian chief continued her visit to South Sudan Tuesday with a stop in Malakal in Upper Nile state, where she met with communities displaced ...

New York, Jan 29 (JEN): Peace and security, sustainable development and human rights are on the agenda at the second summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), ...

New York, Jan 28 (JEN): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday strongly condemned incidents of kidnapping and hostage-taking committed by terrorists for any purpose, including ...

New York, Jan 28 (JEN): Discussions on humanitarian issues at the Syria talks in Geneva “have not produced much,” said the Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the Lea ...

New York, Jan 28 (JEN): The United Nations on Monday paid tribute to the 6 million Jews and countless others massacred in the Nazi Holocaust with a solemn ceremony in the General Assembly H ...

New York, Jan 27 (JEN): The Syrian Government has agreed to allow women and children in the besieged Syrian city of Homs to leave “immediately”, the Joint Special Representative of the U ...