The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan is urging the Sudanese government and rebel forces to stop violence in Kadugli in South Kordofan State. Ali Al-Za'tari says he is deeply concerned about the escalation of fighting in and around Kadugli where there was an exchange of shelling on Tuesday morning and afternoon. Charles Appel reports. [...]
A special programme about 24 October 1945, marking the 16th anniversary of the day the United Nations became a working organization, narrated by Canadian-American actor Hume Cronyn. Language: English Genre: Report 1961 Duration: 14’36″
A panorama of the world’s remaining problems twelve years after the creation of the United Nations. Language: English Genre: Drama 1957 Duration: 14’26″
“The road of Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony is also the road followed by the authors of the preamble of the Charter”, says former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in this introduction to a symphonic concert for UN Day. Language: English Genre: Speech 1960 Duration: 4’36″
To what extend the death penalty can infringe on the absolute prohibition of torture, is the theme of a report presented to the General Assembly on Tuesday by a United Nations independent expert. Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture said the issue is complicated because international law does not prohibit the death [...]
Thirteen thousand Syrian refugees are being supported by a voucher programme in Turkey with the help of the World Food Programme, according to Daly Belgasmi, WFP's Regional Director for the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Mr. Belgasmi has just returned from a visit to three countries in the region with substantial numbers of [...]
A young Japanese artist was on Tuesday presented a certificate and check by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for winning the United Nations "Art for Peace" contest. The contest, which ran from February through April of this year, provided a platform for children and young people throughout the world to use their creative talent to [...]
Two Nepali men who were victims of human trafficking have arrived in Kathmandu after an eleven-month ordeal that took them through five countries. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the men were recruited by a human smuggling network in Nepal and charged a fee with the promise of legal migration and work in [...]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is usually associated with issues relating to safeguards for nuclear installations or verification that nuclear technology is being used for peaceful purposes. But in Cameroon, the IAEA is helping to diagnose animal diseases, in a country where over a third of the population depend on livestock for their livelihoods. [...]
A senior United Nations humanitarian official is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to see what is being done to help hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern part of the country. John Ging, Director of Operations for the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA), started a five-day mission to the country on Monday. OCHA [...]
Inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) declined by 8 per cent in the first half of 2012, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In its latest Global Investment Trend Monitor, UNCTAD projects that FDI flows will at best level off in 2012 at slightly below $1.6 trillion. The agency says the [...]
Four countries in northwest Africa are being urged to prepare for the likely arrival of swarms of Desert Locusts, the most devastating of the species. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has alerted Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Morocco about the insects which appear to be headed their way from the Sahel region of West Africa [...]
The number of undernourished people in Madagascar continues to rise, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). The UN food agency says it is targeting to feed up to one million people in the island country on the Indian Ocean in 2013. However, WFP says it is facing a serious funding shortfall in its operation [...]
More than one-third of the population in Madagascar is undernourished and the World Food Programme (WFP) warns that the number could rise. WFP is aiming to feed up to one million people in the country in 2013 but the agency is facing a serious funding shortfall which threatens its school feeding programmes and other initiatives. [...]
Swarms of Desert Locusts are forming in the Sahel region of West Africa following good summer rains that provided favourable conditions for breeding. The warning has come from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which has alerted Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Morocco to prepare for the likely arrival of the crop devouring insects. [...]
The recent spate of insecurity and growing tensions in Lebanon has forced the UN refugee agency to temporarily halt the registration of Syrian refugees in the country. Lebanese cities affected by the suspension include the capital Beirut, Tripoli, Akar and Saida in the south. UNHCR says the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has [...]
