The Internet is posing challenges to governments that want to combat racism, according to Mutuma Ruteere, the United Nations independent expert on racism. The UN Special Rapporteur on racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance spoke to reporters on Monday after presenting two reports to the General Assembly. The first report was on racism and [...]
The role that women play in the conservation of indigenous livestock must be recognized, argues a new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). According to the study, entitled "Invisible Guardians: Women manage livestock diversity", about two thirds of the 600 million poor livestock keepers in the world, are women. It says [...]
The humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is dire with more than two million internally displaced people, or IDPs. That's according to John Ging, the Director of Operations for the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA), who has just returned from the country. Mr. Ging who was accompanied by senior officials from the [...]
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is protesting a recent government decision to expel one of its Human Rights officers from the country. The staff member is currently working in Uganda after being given 48 hours to leave South Sudan, according to a statement from the mission. Derrick Mbatha spoke to UNMISS spokesman [...]
Deforestation is depriving Kenya millions of dollars a year, according to a new report out on Monday. The report has been jointly compiled by the Kenyan Forest Service (KFS) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Donn Bobb reports. The report says that deforestation deprived Kenya's economy of 5.8 billion shillings, an equivalent of $68 [...]
Nuclear power is still seen as an option for meeting energy requirements, despite the nuclear accident in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan last year. That's what Annu Tandon, a member of the Indian delegation to the United Nations told the General Assembly as it discussed the report of the International Atomic Energy [...]
The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Myanmar's Rakhine State has risen to more than 110,000, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Inter-communal violence during October has resulted in the deaths of nearly 90 people while more than 130 others were injured. Over 5,300 houses and religious buildings [...]
The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is protesting the expulsion of one of its human rights officers from South Sudan. The top United Nations envoy in South Sudan, Hilde Johnson, says the expulsion is in violation of international law. UNMISS says that it recently received official communication from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of [...]
The number of people displaced by the on going inter-communal violence in Myanmar's Rakhine province has reached over 110,000, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Over 35,000 people have been displaced in the recent wave of violence which began in October. At least 89 people have been killed since [...]
