New York, June 24 (JEN) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed deep concern over a string of recent court decisions in Egyp ...

Washington, June 20 (JEN) A senior United Nations relief official on Thursday highlighted the need for “courageous leadership” by the authorities in Mali to tackle the country’s politi ...

New York, June 19 (JEN) Human security – broadly defined by the United Nations as “the right of people to live in freedom and dignity, free from poverty and despair” – provides a ne ...

New York, June 19 (JEN) Following the announcement Wednesday by an Afghan presidential candidate that he will suspend cooperation with the electoral process, the United Nations has called fo ...

Geneva, June 18 (JEN) The majority of civilians in Syria continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing conflict, the head of a United Nations-appointed human rights panel said Tuesday, noting th ...

New York, June 18 (JEN) The United Nations Security Council today voiced its deepest condolences to the families of all journalists who have been killed while covering the crisis in Ukraine, ...

New York, Jun 17 (JEN): The United Nations human rights chief on Monday condemned the reported “cold-blooded” mass execution in Iraq in recent days, while Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon u ...

New York, Jun 16 (JEN): Warning that elderly people in all societies can be vulnerable to physical, psychological and financial abuse, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday ...

New York, Jun 16 (JEN): The top United Nations official in Afghanistan on Sunday strongly condemned what appears to be punishment doled out by the Taliban to nearly a dozen of people who had ...