The United Nations refugee agency has partnered with Spanish football giant FC Barcelona to use sport to help provide refugee children with education and life skills.
With some 26,000 children under the age of five dying every day, bolstered strategies are crucial to save lives, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in its annual flagship report released today which stresses that investing in the health of children and their mothers is both a human rights and development imperative.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed the United Nations High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, Cheikh Sidi Diarra of Mali, to also serve as his Special Adviser on Africa.
With reports of increasing sexual assaults against women displaced by Kenya’s post-election violence, a senior United Nations official today called on the global community to recognize such crimes as an affront to basic human rights.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today agreed on expanding their cooperation, especially in tackling climate change.
Authorities in the Central African Republic (CAR) have opened the troubled country’s first camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) after a rise in bandit attacks in the north, and United Nations humanitarian officials warn that continuing violence means the number of displaced may only grow in the weeks ahead.
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today mourned the death of Andy Palacio, a Belizean singer and musician and one of the agency’s Artists for Peace.
The Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) today stressed the “historic” importance of the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor in signalling an end to impunity, even at the highest level.
The United Nations-backed peace summit in the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reportedly ended today, with delegates said to be hammering out a final agreement between the Government and various armed groups.
The United Nations Foundation (UNF) announced today that it will donate $1 dollar for each of the first 100,000 signatures to an online petition aimed at eliminating violence against women.