More than two dozen students from the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India celebrated the first International Day of Yoga at UN Headquarters in New York.
It was the culmination of a school trip to the United States.
Two students, Sagarika and Amulya, both 16, were chosen to speak at the event after a number of government representatives and UN officials.
Although up to 90 per cent of world trade is carried out using ships, the work of the people on those vessels is not well known.
That’s according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which wants to change that situation through a campaign launched on the Day of the Seafarer observed on 25 June.
The Eritrean government faced renewed pressure over allegations of crimes against humanity on Wednesday, as UN investigators repeated their call for an international criminal probe into abuses.
In a high-level report compiled for the UN Human Rights Council, chief investigator Mike Smith detailed systematic and widespread alleged abuses against civilians in the Horn of Africa nation.
Selling of girls in conflict situations today has been compared to the sale of Africans during the Transatlantic slave trade.
Rape and other forms of sexual violence have been used as a weapon in wars across the globe.
The UN General Assembly recently established an international day to remember victims of this scourge and to remind the world that action still needs to be taken to stamp it out.
Dianne Penn’s report begins with the words of Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
Dozens of life-saving clinics in Iraq are set to close within days unless US$60 million is found to keep them open, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
A total of 77 health facilities which provide the majority of medical care in conflict-affected areas are at risk as the month-end deadline approaches, the UN agency’s Christian Lindmeier warned.
The WHO spokesperson told Daniel Johnson that the more than three million displaced people in Iraq desperately need medical help amid soaring summer temperatures as high as 50C and a rise in disease.
The decision by warring parties to sign a peace deal in Mali in which there’s to be accountability for serious rights violations is the best chance of restoring the country’s fortunes, the UN said Tuesday.
Ravina Shamdasani from the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said it was satisfied that a “blanket amnesty” had not been offered as part of the deal.
The Syrian conflict shows no signs of stopping while terrible human rights abuses continue unabated, UN investigators said Tuesday.
Paulo Pinheiro, who’s heading a UN probe into the war, accused government and rebel forces of what he called “seemingly deliberate” decision to put civilians in harm’s way.
More than five years into the conflict, the investigator told the UN Human Rights Council that the situation is a “profound failure” for the international community.
As cross border trading in the Asia and the Pacific region grows, laws need to be put into place to give businesses in developing countries better access to justice, for services such as international commercial arbitration.
That’s according to the Head of the Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific of the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
João Ribeiro made the comments during a visit to Canberra, the capital of Australia.
Refugees from South Sudan are pouring into Sudan at a rate of 300 a day according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Around 30,000 people have fled fighting in areas of Upper Nile State close to the border since mid-May.
The conflict in South Sudan is continuing as government forces battle with rebels loyal to the former Vice-President of the country.
Sebit William has been speaking to UNHCR’s Nicolas Brass, who’s based in Khartoum.
Women have too little influence in the big decisions that affect them despite a landmark pledge at the Beijing summit two decades ago, according to veteran activist Shirin Akhter.
It’s why the Bangladeshi campaigner supports a UN twitter campaign using the #reflect2protect hashtag.
