Conference focuses on disability needs post-2015
Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Ambassador Macharia Kamau of Kenya, President of the Conference of States Parties to Disabilities Rights Convention at a press briefing.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former US President Bill Clinton, and Reverend Jesse Jackson during an event commemorating the Nelson Mandela International Day [UN Photo/Eskinder Debeb][/caption]July 18 is Nelson Mandela International Day.
Thesele Kemane, Graduate student at the University of Cape Town Opera School, preforming in the General Assembly Hall. [UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz][/caption]For more than four decades, black and non-white South Africans lived under a brutal system of Apartheid.
“Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, guaranteed in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos. [UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre][/caption]Millions of people remain in desperate need of help around the world, Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos told a press briefing in Geneva on Wednesday.
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Miroslav Jenča, briefed the UN Security Council
ICC’s new Registrar Herman von Hebel taking oath (April 18, 2013) [Photo: ICC][/caption]The International Criminal court was created in 2002 to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Congolese families fleeing to Uganda. [Photo: UNHCR/ L.Beck][/caption]Congolese refugees have been streaming across the border into western Uganda since Thursday last week following a rebel attack on the town of Kamango in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
UNHCR Spokesperson Adrian Edwards [Photo adapted from UNIFEED][/caption]The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is providing emergency shelter, blankets and other essential relief items to some 66,000 Congolese refugees who have fled fighting for th