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A Chinook transport helicopter from the Dutch contingent serving with MINUSMA on its way to Gao, Mali.

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Mali: Security Council extends condolences over death of two UN peacekeepers

18 March 2015

The Security Council expressed their regret at the death of two Dutch peacekeepers serving with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali resulting from a helicopter accident in the region of Gao.

Former President of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed.

UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz (file)

UN rights chief raises serious concerns about ‘rushed’ trial of former Maldives President

18 March 2015

The United Nations human rights chief expressed strong concerns today about the hasty and apparently unfair trial of the former President of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed, who received a 13-year jail sentence for the unlawful detention of a criminal court judge in 2012.

Students in Matatirtha, Nepal, which is in the process of being redeveloped to make the school more earthquake proof. As part of this process children are taught how to take shelter beneath their desks in case of an earthquake. Photo by Jim Holmes for Aus

Sendai: UN conference adopts new, people-centred disaster risk reduction strategy

18 March 2015

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Death, destruction and displacement wrought by natural disasters would be significantly reduced by 2030 under a new framework adopted by countries attending the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Sendai, Japan, where they also affirmed the “urgent and critical need” to anticipate, plan for and reduce such risk to more effectively protect people, communities and countries, and to build resilience.

Deputy Executive Director of UN Women Lakshmi Puri.

UN Women/Fabricio Barreto (file)

Citing insufficient progress, UN official urges more rapid change for gender equality

17 March 2015

A senior United Nations official today stressed the need for more rapid advancements on gender equality, saying the pace of change since the 1995 World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, on many issues has not been sufficient and major disparities between genders remain.

UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Bulgarian national appointed new head of UN regional centre in Central Asia

17 March 2015

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Petko Draganov of Bulgaria as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), located in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

A UNAMID peacekeeper interacts with a woman during a daily patrol aimed at protecting newly-displaced persons at the Zam Zam camp near El Fasher, North Darfur.

UNAMID/Hamid Abdulsalam

Darfur security, humanitarian situations ‘deteriorated significantly’ – UN peacekeeping chief

17 March 2015

The security and humanitarian situations in the Darfur region of Sudan “deteriorated significantly” over the past year, the head of United Nations peacekeeping told the Security Council today, adding that there had also been no tangible progress toward resolving the conflict.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi.

UN Photo/Mark Garten

Nobel laureate calls for push to end ‘biggest crime against humanity’: child labour

17 March 2015

Depriving children of their childhood and their freedom is “the biggest crime against humanity,” child rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi said today during a visit to United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).

UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Eighty countries adopt call to action at first UN conference on dementia

17 March 2015

A two-day ministerial conference on dementia hosted by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) ended in Geneva today with 80 countries calling for action to address “a tidal wave” of new cases of the disease projected to cost the world $1.2 trillion by 2050.

Cécile Pouilly, spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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UN ‘disturbed’ at alleged rights abuses by politicians in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

17 March 2015

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said today that it is deeply concerned about the prolonged political impasse in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and its human rights implications.

A Sudanese refugee with her child on one of the buses that moved volunteers from the flood-prone Leitchuor and Nip Nip refugee camps in western Ethiopia.

UNHCR/S. Momodu

UN agency begins relocation of 50,000 flood-affected refugees in Ethiopia

17 March 2015

The United Nations refugee agency said today it has begun the relocation of more than 50,000 South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia from flood-prone areas ahead of the rainy season, which is expected to start in late April.

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