Wanted: More women police officers
The United Nations aims to achieve an increase of at least 20 per cent more women police officers in peacekeeping by 2014.
The United Nations aims to achieve an increase of at least 20 per cent more women police officers in peacekeeping by 2014.
The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution which extends the mandate of the UN mission in the Central African Republic known by its French acronym, BINUCA.
Haiti is facing two main challenges: creating economic progress and conducting legislative and local elections.
That assessment comes from Mariano Fernández, the head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), who is in New York this week.
Efforts to combat HIV and AIDS in South Africa got a boost recently with the visit by German soccer star Michael Ballack.
The country is believed to have the highest number of people affected by HIV and AIDS.
There is good news and bad news about the global economy, according to the World Investment and Political Risk survey released by UNCTAD, the UN Conference on Trade and Development.
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly implementing social safety nets to protect their most vulnerable citizens, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Boiled rice, steamed rice, fried rice - rice is a staple food for over half of the world’s population, but nowhere is it more central to diet and culture than in South East Asia.
As fighting continues in Mali where rebels control the northern part of the country, people continue to flee their homes, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).
Consumers and food retailers have a big part to play in dramatically reducing the 1.3 billion tonnes of food that goes to waste each year. Worldwide, that’s about one-third of all food that’s produced. Speaking at the launch of the ‘Think, Eat, Save.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has told Member States that his fervent hope is that “we stop moving from crisis to crisis, from symptom to symptom and instead address the underlying causes” of the world’s problems.