UN mobilizing emergency team for flood-hit Uruguay
The United Nations is mobilizing a Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team for deployment to Uruguay early next week in the wake of the worst floods to hit the country in half a century.
UN rights unit calls Darfur bombardments ‘indiscriminate and inappropriate’
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) today described as “indiscriminate” a series of deadly aerial bombardments across the North Darfur region of Sudan and said there were many civilian casualties.
Security Council working group urges action to demobilize child soldiers
The United Nations Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict has demanded that the parties in Sri Lanka and Nepal demobilize all child soldiers without delay, as it also examined new reports on children caught up in fighting in Uganda and Somalia.
UN-backed civil society forum urges action on Middle East peace
Sounding a strong collective call to action, a broad cross-section of civil society gathered in Pretoria for a United Nations-backed Public Forum in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace stressed the urgent need to press for the immediate resumption of the political dialogue between the two sides, and for renewed efforts to keep talks focused on ending the occupation and alleviating the suffering of the Palestinian people.
General Assembly president urges unity among cultures
Closing a major conference today at United Nations Headquarters in New York, General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa called on the peoples of the world to overcome their mutual indifference to each other to solve grave global problems.
Security Council told that Kosovo remains calm but tense
Although the overall security situation in Kosovo is calm, tension is palpable in the ethnic Albanian majority Serbian province that the United Nations has administered since 1999, according to a new report by on last month’s Security Council fact-finding mission made public today.
UNICEF and Chad sign agreement to demobilize child soldiers
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reached an agreement with the Government of Chad for the demobilization of child soldiers across the African country.
Ban Ki-moon appoints experts to Board of UN Register of Damage caused by the Construction of the Wall in the occupied Palestinian territory
The Secretary-General, in compliance with a recent resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, has appointed in their personal capacity three international experts to begin the work of establishing a register of damage caused by Israel's construction of a wall in occupied Palestinian territory.
Over a dozen UN rights experts jointly urge release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
As the current detention term of Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi approaches, over a dozen United Nations human rights experts have joined their voices to call on the Myanmar authorities to free her and all other political prisoners.
Workplace discrimination still rampant and taking on new forms, UN says
Although progress has been made at combating discrimination in the workplace, rising gender disparities in income and other forms of discrimination – including age, sexual orientation and HIV/AIDS status – are cause for growing concern, the United Nations Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report released today.