Europe

People wearing gears used in a Portal.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

With virtual and augmented reality, UN ‘ideas forum’ to explore collaboration on Global Goals

28 February 2017
Policy makers, activists and private sector representatives from over 80 countries will join gaming experts and simulators tomorrow in Bonn, Germany, at the start of the first “playable” sustainable development conference organized by the United Nations and partners.
A migrant gestures from behind the bars of a cell at a detention centre in Libya, Tuesday 31 January.
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Migrating children and women, suffer ‘sexual violence, exploitation, abuse and detention’ – UN agency

28 February 2017
A senior United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official is calling the routes from sub-Saharan Africa into Libya and across the sea to Europe one of the “world’s deadliest and most dangerous for children and women,” as the agency reported that nearly half of the women and children interviewed after making the voyage were raped.
Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), briefs the Security Council.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Kosovo: Talks between Belgrade and Pristina 'essential' to peace, UN envoy tells Security Council

27 February 2017
There is no alternative to dialogue, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo today told the Security Council, citing the importance of high-level talks between Belgrade and Pristina, and calling for continued international engagement to maintain peace and stability in Kosovo and the wider Balkans region.
Asylum-seekers from Syria, including children, arrive on the shores of the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region of Greece.
UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi

Refugees and migrants taking 'enormous risks' to reach Europe – UN agency

27 February 2017
Increased border restrictions and lack of accessible legal ways to reach Europe have caused refugees and migrants to take more “diversified and dangerous journeys,” such as relying on people-smugglers or using flimsy boats to cross rough seas, a new report by the United Nations refugee agency has revealed.
Chairperson of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Ricardo Sunga.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Germany: UN rights panel highlights racial profiling against people of African descent

27 February 2017
People of African descent in Germany suffer racial discrimination, Afrophobia and racial profiling in their daily lives, but their situation remains largely invisible to the wider society, a United Nations expert panel said today at the end of its first official visit to the country.
Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, in his role as the chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), addresses the Security Council.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

OSCE seeks to defuse conflicts, combat radicalization and build trust, UN Security Council told

22 February 2017
Multilateral cooperation is the only way to achieve peace, security and stability, and there is no alternative to it, Austria’s Foreign Minister told the United Nations Security Council today, underscoring the work of his country in its role as the Chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Secretary-General António Guterres (front left) addresses the Security Council debate on the topic, ‘Maintenance of international peace and security: Conflicts in Europe.’
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

At Security Council, UN chief Guterres highlights global significance of a peaceful Europe

21 February 2017
Noting that recent crises in Europe show that the continent remains at risk from new outbreaks of conflict, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for reinforcing mutual trust and respect to strengthen stability and cooperation both within Europe and beyond.
Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, briefing journalists late last year at Headquarters.
UN Photo/Amanda Voisard

UN honours 'outstanding diplomat,' Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who passed away at 64

20 February 2017
The United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly today, along with Secretary-General António Guterres, mourned the passing of the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, who died this morning in New York.
Secretary-General António Guterres.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin (file)

At Munich Security Conference, UN chief Guterres highlights need for 'a surge in diplomacy for peace'

18 February 2017
Highlighting the complex and interlinked challenges confronting the global community that also compound the suffering of the most vulnerable, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a boost in preventive diplomacy and mediation efforts, as well as for a strategy to address root causes of such conflicts in the world.
On 13 February 2017, when there seemed to be a pause in the shelling and fighting, Sasha, 6, carefully ascends the steep steps that lead outside of the cellar of her home, about 15 kilometres from the contact line in Toretsk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine.
UNICEF/Pavel Zmey

One million Ukrainian children now need aid as number doubles over past year – UNICEF

17 February 2017
As the volatile conflict in eastern Ukraine enters its fourth year, one million children are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance – nearly double the number this time last year, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported today.