New York, Nov 26 (JEN) Reiterating its strong condemnation of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its use of children in armed conflict, the Secu ...

New York, Nov 26 (JEN) The Security Council on Monday strongly condemned the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Iraq, as the top United Nations official in the country warned of a deterior ...

New York, Nov 25 (JEN): Four people have been arrested for alleged witness tampering in the war crimes trial of former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, the International Criminal ...

New York, Nov 23 (JEN): A group of independent United Nations rights experts Friday called on the Organization to adopt a more central role in the fight against impunity, and urged Member S ...

New York, Nov 23 (JEN): The United Nations agency leading the response to the AIDS epidemic is calling for an end to gender-based violence, which is not only a serious human rights violation ...

New York, Nov 22 (JEN): Saying they themselves had received threats, United Nations human rights experts Thursday called on the Government of the Netherlands to facilitate the growing natio ...

New York, Nov 21 (JEN): Drawing a direct link between violence against children and poverty, United Nations officials marked Universal Children’s Day with a call to make child protection a ...

New York, Nov 21 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the deadly attacks on Tuesday against a police station in Beledweyne, Somalia, which follow a numb ...

New York, Nov 21 (JEN): Despite collective efforts, much remains to be done towards universal ratification of the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court ( ...