• The UN this week dispatched a team to Côte d'Ivoire to investigate a deadly attack on a relocation camp for internally displaced people (IDPs). At least seven people were killed and 67 injured in the incident which took place in Nahibly, in the western part of the country, on 20 July. Crisis [...]
1. UNHCR concerned by thousands fleeing Syria 2. HIV/AIDS: Turning the tide together 3. AIDS free generation is within our grasp: UNICEF 4. Corruption: a threat to sustainable development: ECOSOC Produced and narrated by Ambalika Misra Duration: 14’32″
1. General Assembly celebrates Nelson Mandela International Day 2. Sluggish recovery shows sign of further weakness 3. Scaling up access to family planning 4. Disabled children four times at risk of physical and other abuse: WHO Produced and narrated by Ambalike Misra Duration: 15’00″
1. The UN Mission in Syria is renewed for 30 days 2. UN Refugee Chief gravely concerned over plight of displaced Syrians 3. Violence: Dramatic number of people fleeing Syria 4. Russia and China veto Security Council action on Syria 5. Representative explains why Pakistan was forced to abstain on SC resolution 6. Ban hopes [...]
1. Kofi Annan condemns latest 200 Syria killings 2. WFP suspends delivery of food to 55 thousand in North Kivu 3. UN helicopters engage M23 forces in DRC 4. Uncertain future looms in Afghanistan as foreign forces get ready for draw-down 5. WHO says children with disabilities four times more likely to experience violence 6. [...]
The Youth Parliament of Pakistan (YPP) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious programme for young people in that country. Abrar ul-Haq, Founder and Chairman, created the YPP to harness the energy of youth and put it to good use. Mary Ferreira found out more about the YPP, which has the support of the United Nations Democracy [...]
A €6 million fund has been established to help 10 countries in Central Africa set up advanced national forest registries, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on Thursday. The countries are part of the Congo Basin, one of the world's largest rainforests, which supports the livelihoods of about 60 million people. Gerry Adams reports [...]
Humanitarian organizations are working around the clock to supply life-saving support to a growing influx of refugees entering South Sudan, says the UN humanitarian agency OCHA. They are fleeing fighting and food shortages in Sudan's Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states. OCHA says most of the arrivals have been travelling for weeks through areas of [...]
The UN Secretary-General has reiterated his call for an end to the violence in Syria. Ban Ki-moon was in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica on Thursday, where thousands of Muslim men and boys were massacred in July 1995 during the Balkan wars. Reporters asked him about the crisis in Syria. "Again, I am urging all the [...]
The UN Secretary-General on Thursday concluded a six-day mission to South-Eastern Europe, a journey which took him to all parts of the former Yugoslavia. Twenty years ago, the region was ravaged by fighting and ethnic conflict during the Balkan wars which lasted from 1992 to 1995. Ban Ki-moon said he left with a deeper [...]
The impact of climate change on the right to water and sanitation was the focus of UN Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque's recent visit to Tuvalu, one of the least populated countries in the world. From Fiji, she spoke with Gerry Adams about some of the tremendous challenges the South Pacific island faces concerning the [...]
Heavy rains are affecting aid delivery to more than 160,000 refugees in South Sudan, the UN Humanitarian Affairs office (OCHA) reports. OCHA says impassable road conditions meant several missions to Upper Nile and Unity states had to be called off. The rainy season has added to the worsening humanitarian situation in South Sudan where nearly [...]
