New York, Nov 8 (JEN): A senior United Nations official Thursday appealed to the international community to provide funding to the UN-backed tribunal trying Khmer Rouge leaders accused of m ...

New York, Nov 7 (JEN): Giving women access to and control of natural resources such as land, water, forests and minerals is essential to ensure war-torn countries can achieve long-term peac ...

New York, Nov 7 (JEN): Two United Nations independent experts Wednesday warned Sudan against threatening women with flogging, stressing this practice amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading ...

New York, Nov 7 (JEN): The United Nations human rights chief Wednesday expressed alarm at the death sentences handed out in Bangladesh to 152 paramilitary soldiers for their role in a 2009 ...

New York, Nov 7 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim pledged Wednesday to support an initiative to improve women’s reproductive h ...

New York, Nov 6 (JEN): Renowned United States actor, filmmaker and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Global Justice Nicolas Cage Tuesday called for greater efforts to assist human traf ...

New York, Nov 2 (JEN): The United Nations refugee agency is concerned that as the rainy season ends in Myanmar and the annual sailing season reopens, people from the Rakhine state are incre ...

New York, Nov 1 (JEN): Two of the surviving former leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime charged with mass killings during the 1970’s requested to be acquitted Thursday, as closing a ...

New York, Oct 31 (JEN): The head of the United Nations agency defending press freedom Wednesday denounced the murder of Honduran cameraman Manuel Murillo Varela, who was found shot dead la ...