UNDP’s “Energy Plus” approach brings power and progress to rural areas
It’s 2012 and still roughly 800 million people in Asia and the Pacific lack access to electricity.
It’s 2012 and still roughly 800 million people in Asia and the Pacific lack access to electricity.
A documentary film celebrating the life of the late Jewish prodigy, Petr Ginz, murdered during the Holocaust, will soon go global.
After 17 years, the United Nations flag is flying again in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
The United Nations Political Office for Somalia on Wednesday officially relocated from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi to Mogadishu.
Increased anti-piracy measures by shipping companies and the intervention by navies have led to a drop in the number of successful pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia in 2011.
An archive of interviews with some of the personalities behind crucial moments in UN history is now available online.
A record number of African refugees made the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in 2011.
North Korea has been described as a humanitarian basket case by a senior UN official.
The isolated Asian country has recently undergone a change in leadership with the international community hoping that it will open up and address human rights issues.
An agreement over the future reunification of Cyprus could move a step closer at talks that are due to get underway on Monday outside New York City.
Over the past six years there has been a rise in the number of think tanks in developing countries, including some African nations.
Tanzania has submitted an application to add 150 miles to the 200 miles of the area that is under its control in the ocean.