UN meeting seeks to improve support for Europe’s ageing population
Active ageing and the participation of older people in Europe were the focus of a two-day ministerial meeting that ended in Vienna on Thursday.
Active ageing and the participation of older people in Europe were the focus of a two-day ministerial meeting that ended in Vienna on Thursday.
A $1.6 billion humanitarian appeal to assist millions of hungry people in Africa’s Sahel region is nearly 60 per cent funded, according to UN humanitarian agencies and their partners.
The 2012 Olympics are now a fading memory, but the sporting spirit lives on in Timor-Leste where more than 300 people recently competed in a gruelling bike race that promotes peace and development.
The plight of the youngest victims of war—whether as fighters or witnesses to the fighting—was the focus of a Security Council open debate on Wednesday.
A former Somali refugee has won the prestigious annual award of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
There is an African proverb which says “When elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt.”
In Afghanistan, when two families fight, young girls are often the victims.
More than half of Sudanese children living in Yusuf Batil refugee camp in Maban County in South Sudan are severely malnourished, according to Doctors without Borders.
The human rights situation in Syria has deteriorated and gross violations of human rights have increased.
That’s what Paulo Pinheiro, Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.
Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar has had an eventful year as President of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly.
Côte d’Ivoire faces big challenges to promote national reconciliation and economic development as it recovers from the violence that happened after the November 2010 presidential run-off elections.