The United Nations condemns in the strongest terms, the killing of Hanifa Safi, Head of the Department of Women's Affairs in Afghanistan's Laghman Province. Ms Hanifa was killed by a car bomb on 13th of July. According to UNAMA, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, a remote controlled IED detonated inside Ms. Hanifa's vehicle, [...]
Asha-Rose Migiro has been appointed as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Ms Migiro served as the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General from 2007 to 2012. Charles Appel has more. As Deputy-Secretary-General, Asha-Rose Migiro was integrally involved in promoting the AIDS response globally and within Africa, with special emphasis on reducing the [...]
The World Food Programme (WFP) is preparing to bring food relief to more than one million people in Malawi where crop failure and high prices have made life difficult for vulnerable families. The agency says prolonged dry spells and drought, as long as three years in some areas, have affected maize production. Field visits to [...]
Fighting between government troops and rebel forces has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to temporarily suspend aid delivery to displaced people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. More than 200,000 people have been newly displaced in the DRC this week, while scores of others have crossed the border into Uganda. Patrick Maigua [...]
The use of helicopters in an attack on M23 forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is not unique, says Roger Meece, the Secretary-General's Special Representative to the DRC. "Indeed this is not the first use of them in the current situation; all of the actions, including the use of the attack helicopters, is [...]
Joint Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan has strongly condemned the attacks on a village in Syria on Thursday which took the lives of over 200 people. According to media reports, the village was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks and then stormed by militiamen who carried out execution-style killings. The victims were mostly civilians [...]
The United Nations continues to be concerned about on-going violence in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On Thursday, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA expressed concerns over reaching people fleeing the violence. Now, Spokesperson for the World Food Programme Elisabeth Byers says WFP has had to suspend its delivery of [...]
Nominations will close on 20 July for the first ever Wangari Maathai Award. Launched by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), it commemorates the late Kenyan environmental activist and Nobel Prize winner who was a champion for the world's forests. Wangari Maathai died in 2011. The $20,000 prize recognizes outstanding contributions made by an individual to preserve, restore [...]
An estimated 600 thousand people in Timor-Leste turned out on the 7th of July to make their voices heard in the 2012 Parliamentary vote. The polling started in the wee hours of the morning throughout the country. Gerry Adams reports. Duration: 2’29″
An estimated 600 thousand people in Timor-Leste turned out on the 7th of July to make their voices heard in the 2012 Parliamentary vote. The polling started in the wee hours of the morning throughout the country. Timor-Leste, located in East Asia between Australia and Indonesia, gained its independence from Indonesia in 2002 after many [...]
A groundbreaking meeting held in London this week resulted in nearly three billion dollars in pledges to support women's and girls' right to choose whether, when and how many children they will have. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA), one of the organizers, says reproductive problems are the leading cause of poor health and death among [...]
More than 1.6 million people in Malawi will need food assistance in the coming months due to crop failure and high food prices according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). As many as 15 out of the country's 28 districts are affected by the deteriorating food security. WFP says prolonged dry spells have [...]
The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime makes his first field visit in the United States. Yuri Fedotov, who usually works out of the UN's Vienna office, went to a New York City neighbourhood to see first hand how a drug prevention programme was changing lives. His visit was organized by [...]
The former president of Botswana says maybe he could have done more to decriminalize laws that hamper AIDS progress. Festus Mogae, who is now part of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, says while millions of dollars have been invested over the past 30 years to expand lifesaving HIV prevention and treatment, many [...]
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