The Security Council is calling for an end to impunity in the recent attacks on peacekeepers serving with the joint United Nations-African Union force in Darfur. The Council has condemned "in the strongest terms" Friday's attack on a UNAMID patrol in the village of Duma, northeast of Nyala where a Sierra Leonean peacekeeper was killed [...]
The Technical Cooperation Department of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) operates a unique training programme that gives men and women from all its member states a chance to get project-related, on-the-job experience and training at the Agency's laboratories and in the field projects around the world. In Vienna, Austria, Louise Potterton spoke to Thabisile [...]
The recent attack on Libyan state broadcasting facilities by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO is unacceptable, according to Irina Bokova, the Director-General of the UN Educational and Scientific Organization. UNESCO says three media workers were killed in the air strike and 21 people were injured. Media outlets should not be targeted in military [...]
The humanitarian space is expanding after the Islamic insurgent group Al Shabaab abruptly left the capital Mogadishu over the weekend, according to the Secretary-General's Representative in the region. Augustine Mahiga says thousands of Al Shabaab fighters withdrew from around Mogadishu taking their equipment with them. He remains cautious about the move and fears that [...]
Insurgent elements of the Al-Shabaab rebel group in Somalia have begun to leave the capital Mogadishu, according to the UN envoy for Somalia. Augustine Mahiga, says he welcomes the news and is pleased with the progress made in security over the past several days. Mr. Mahiga told Gerry Adams ahe remains cautious though about the [...]
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The human rights situation in Iraq remains fragile as armed violence continues in the country. That's according to a new report released by the United Nations. 3,000 Iraqi civilians were killed violently in 2010, according to a new UN report. These killings have been largely carried out by armed insurgents and terrorist groups. The report [...]
A huge cargo plane has delivered over 30 metric tons of non-food items to Somalia. The emergency airlift is the first of three to be carried out by UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency. It is also the first airlift undertaken by UNHCR to the Somali capital of Mogadishu in five years. The Ilyushin IL-62 [...]
Armed violence and "silent" human rights violations continue to affect large sectors of the population of Iraq, a new UN report warns. The report is from the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights -OHCHR and the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq or UNAMI. Widespread poverty, economic stagnation, lack of jobs and the [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has promised to put nuclear safety and security high on the global agenda. Mr. Ban Ki-moon was speaking at the Fukushima Minami High School in a visit to pay tribute to the families affected by the "triple disaster". The disasters were triggered by the earthquake on March 11, followed by [...]
Building purpose-driven for-profit ventures is something youth entrepreneur John Kluge says can do good for people, while doing well for businesses. His company is investing in mechanisms for social change, including better sanitation methods and education initiatives. Kluge spoke at a recent International Labour Organisation and UN Programme on Youth (UNPY) event at the UN promoting [...]
