Climate action pledged by companies in Iceland
Businesses in Iceland are being urged to “dig” into their operations to find ways to reduce harmful gas emissions.
Businesses in Iceland are being urged to “dig” into their operations to find ways to reduce harmful gas emissions.
A range of restrictions put in place by governments against movements of refugees and migrants from Greece through the Western Balkans and further northwards will put already vulnerable people at risk according to the United Nations.
A video of a celebrity wedding which took place in Brazil is being premiered at the UN on Friday as part of an event to highlight a decade of progress in Latin America in protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex or LGBTI people.
Brazilian celebrity same-sex wedding video premiered at UN
People around the world should never give up on striving for peace.
Those are the words of the director of the movie “The Day after Peace” which was shown as part of the first ever Geneva Peace Week held at the UN in the Swiss city.
The “epicentre of violence” in on-going clashes between Israelis and Palestinians has moved from Jerusalem, to the West Bank city of Hebron.
The last phase of a measles vaccination campaign is underway in Sudan following a deadly outbreak of the virus nearly a year ago.
More than 3,400 children have been infected with measles in Sudan since December 2014. More than 70 of those children have died.
Killing Burundi’s children is tantamount to “killing the future” of the central African country, a senior UN representative on genocide issues has warned.
Women in Afghanistan want peace “but not at any cost” according to a UN human rights and gender expert in the country.
The central Asian nation continues to recover from decades of instability.
Biodegradable plastics are thought by most to be good for the environment, but the opposite may be true.