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AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST


The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE

29th August, 2015 10992

AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY


MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE

23rd June, 2015 4415

UN VOTE ON IRANNUCLEAR DEALIRRITATES CONGRESS


At least two senior Democrats have joined the Republican leadership in complaining that the Security Council action expected Monday morning would pre-empt the congressional debate... READ MORE

20th July, 2015 4178

AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE


Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE

25th September, 2015 3852

RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'


An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE

2nd September, 2015 3169

EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES


In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE

15th June, 2015 2502

AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI BACKING IRAN NEGOTIATORS DOESNT FAULT NUCLEAR DEAL


Khamenei said referring to the United States and its five negotiating partners... READ MORE

18th July, 2015 2447

READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH


Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE

28th September, 2015 1698

GLOBAL POVERTY DROPS SHARPLY WITH CHINA MAKING BIG STRIDES UN REPORT SAYS


In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE

6th July, 2015 1445

POPE CALLS UNFETTERED CAPITALISM 'THE DUNG OF THE DEVIL'


He also called for an end to what he said was the genocide of Christians taking place in the Middle East and beyond... READ MORE

10th July, 2015 1355

IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS ARE NEARING A DEAL WITH FEWER OBSTACLES


Kerry's 16th consecutive day at the talks, and after convening the rest of the United States negotiating team, he met with Mr... READ MORE

13th July, 2015 1283

UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS FAILING SYRIA, BAN KI-MOON ADMITS


We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE

7th September, 2015 1176

PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS


We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE

26th September, 2015 1139

RUSSIA VETOES UN RESOLUTION CALLING SREBRENICA MASSACRE CRIME OF GENOCIDE


Britain, Russia and the United States had sought to come to a consensus on the text in recent days... READ MORE

8th July, 2015 1123

U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX


As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE

12th January, 2016 1105

REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA


To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE

1st October, 2015 979

IRAN TO STUDY NUCLEAR DEAL BEFORE LAWMAKERS VOTE


For 12 years, great powers have tried to prevent an Iranian nuclear program, Mr. Zarif said... READ MORE

21st July, 2015 939

UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS


The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE

26th September, 2015 774

70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE


70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE

21st September, 2015 770

SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS


In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE

26th August, 2015 710

UN OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS


For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE

12th August, 2015 612

MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015


The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE

10th July, 2015 593

EUROPE BACKS IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL IN SIGNAL TO U.S. CONGRESS


The European Union will retain its ban on the supply of ballistic missile technology and sanctions related to human rights, EU diplomats said... READ MORE

20th July, 2015 496

A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT


We could have added environmental human rights to that legacy last weekend but we failed... READ MORE

1st October, 2015 440

UN OFFICIAL IN PEACEKEEPER SEX ABUSE CASE RESIGNS


Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a panel to review how the United Nations system as a whole handles allegations of sexual abuse against peacekeepers... READ MORE

22nd July, 2015 431

DUTY TO PROTECT PLANET, CALLS FOR 'SOCIAL JUSTICE' ON RESOURCES


His words in Ecuador were a foretaste of his September trip to the United States, where most of the criticism of the encyclical has come... READ MORE

8th July, 2015 405

SOUTH SUDAN ENEMIES FIND UNEASY REFUGE TOGETHER AT A UN BASE


Any trip to and from the base requires an armed escort of more than a dozen United Nations peacekeepers... READ MORE

10th July, 2015 358

UN PEACEKEEPERS ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING STREET CHILDREN IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC


The United Nations did not identify which country the troops were from but a UN official said it was an African contingent... READ MORE

23rd June, 2015 287


United Nations personnel in Camp Faouar went into shelter, the report says... READ MORE

5th October, 2014 282

SYRIA SAID TO AGREE TO FOOD AID FOR STARVING TOWN


The medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders said in a statement that 23 patients had died of starvation at one health center in Madaya since Dec. 1... READ MORE

7th January, 2016 279


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