Women’s representation in Colombia’s judicial system remains low

Killing of two peacekeepers in CAR condemned by UN

An “emergency response” to a rise in HIV infections in Libya, has been launched by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The killing of two peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Tuesday has been condemned by the UN mission there.

The blue helmets, who were part of a battalion from Morocco, were escorting fuel trucks, when they were ambushed by unknown assailants.

“Volunteering” is contagious in a positive way according to a representative from a Kenya based organisation, who attended a UN-supported conference on volunteering, recently held in Mexico.

Former child soldiers should be treated as victims and not security threats in the year ahead, the UN special envoy for children and armed conflict has urged.

Some five and a half million people in Syria’s capital Damascus, have been deprived of water for the past seventeen days, according to a representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the war-torn country.

The UN faces “very challenging times” and needs to embark on a new mission “to change and to reform and to improve.”

That’s the message delivered to staff by new UN chief, António Guterres, on his first day at UN Headquarters in New York.

“Positive” developments can be expected across the world in 2017 despite the ongoing conflicts and humanitarian crises that typified 2016; that’s according to the President of the UN General Assembly, Peter Thomson.