Somalia under spotlight in Security Council
This week the United Nations passed a major milestone in its engagement in Somalia by launching the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).
This week the United Nations passed a major milestone in its engagement in Somalia by launching the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).
A look inside the mobile hot cell as the team extracts a radioactive source from a medical device.
The problem of violence against women was a subject of discussion in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.
Each year, the Council devotes a full day on the most pressing women’s rights issues.
Think. Eat. Save. Reduce Your Foodprint – that is the theme for World Environment Day 2013, says the Day’s sponsor, the UN Environment Programme, UNEP.
UNEP Spokesperson Nick Nuttall. [UN Photo / Guilherme Costa][/caption]The theme for this year’s World Environment Day, which is observed on 5 June each year, is focusing on the growing problem of food waste and loss around the world.
More than 5,000 representatives of governments, employers and workers are in Geneva for the ILO’s annual conference.
Head of the new UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) Nicholas Kay (right), with Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon at a joint press briefing in Mogadishu.
Sierra Leonean farmer. [FAO/Caroline Thomas][/caption]This year’s State of Food and Agriculture report from the Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, says that the social and economic costs of global malnutrition are unacceptable.
The ongoing conflict in Syria is a major catastrophe that tests the international community’s resolve to protect civilians caught in war.
Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, addresses journalists at a press conference by the Commission. [UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré][/caption]War crimes and gross human rights violations continue to be perpetrated in Syria as the conflict rages on.