UN's peacebuilding tools need to be enhanced, Security Council told
The end of conflict does not always mean peace has arrived. That is one of the reasons the United Nations created its Peacebuilding Commission.
The end of conflict does not always mean peace has arrived. That is one of the reasons the United Nations created its Peacebuilding Commission.
Approximately 220,000 people have been newly displaced in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a result of insecurity stemming from movements by the M23 rebel group.
It took more than a decade, but a group of families are finally returning to Tanzania, after living in exile in Somalia.
A groundbreaking meeting underway in London on Wednesday aims to support women's and girls’ right to choose whether, when and how many children they will have.
Unemployment in the Eurozone could reach almost 22 million over the next four years, says a new report from the International Labour Organization.
What’s for lunch?
For Tyler Cowen, an American economist, blogger and author of the new book ‘An Economist Gets Lunch,’ the combination special at the local fast food restaurant is probably not on the menu.
Many years ago, donor countries came to the conclusion that aid dollars were not generating the kind of results that the donors and recipients were looking for, says Talaat Abdel-Malek, Chairman of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness.
Iran needs to be part of the solution when it comes to ending the conflict in Syria, according to Joint United Nations-Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annan.
The guilty verdict against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga for recruiting child soldiers to fight in his rebel group a decade ago has been hailed as a very important decision by the UN expert leading the fight against such practice.
The mystery illness that has killed at least 52 children in Cambodia since April has been diagnosed as hand, foot and mouth disease ,according to the World Health Organization.