UN officials "saddened and shocked" by attack on UN compound in Mogadishu
![Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson briefing the press. [UN Photo/Rick Bajornas]](http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Jan-Eliasson.jpg "Press conference by the Deputy Secretary-General")
The Secretary-General of the United Nations and his deputy are deeply saddened and shocked by Wednesday's attack on the UN compound in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. That's what…
19 Jun 2013 / Listen /Ban welcomes understandings reached on Syria by G8 leaders
![UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. [UN Photo/Mark Garten]](http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ban-stk.jpg "Secretary-General Briefs Media")
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the understandings reached on Syria by G8 leaders in their communique, including the commitment to bring the Syrian sides to the…
19 Jun 2013 / Listen /"Natural resources are neither a curse nor a blessing" in Africa says Kofi Annan
![Mr. Kofi Annan, Chairperson of the Africa Progress Panel [UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras]](http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ANNAN.jpg "former UN Secretary-General and now UN-Arab League JointSpecial Envoy for Syria")
Natural resources have been a presence and at times a driver of internal or regional conflicts in Africa, says former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Mr. Annan, who is…
19 Jun 2013 / Listen /Secretary-General highlights three major challenges facing peacekeeping
![Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) visits a military peacekeeping training centre in Huairou District of Beijing. [UN Photo/ Evan Schneider]](http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/SG-CHINA-PEACEKEEPING.jpg "SG on a visit to the Peacekeeping Centre of the Ministry of Defense, Huairou District, Beijing")
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has highlighted three major challenges facing UN peacekeeping. In remarks at China's Peacekeeping Training Centre in Beijing on Wednesday, the Secretary-General said the first…
19 Jun 2013 / Listen /UNHCR: Global forced displacement at an 18-year high
Over 7.6 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes in 2012, according to the United Nations refugee agency, (UNHCR). The agency says 1.1 million were forced to flee across national borders as…
19 Jun 2013 / Listen /Security Council holds open debate on conflict prevention and extractive industries
Oil, coal, diamonds, precious metals and other resources are literally the wealth of nations. But in too many countries…
19 Jun 2013 / Listen /Myanmar has to do a great deal more to dampen the fires of interreligious tension: Human Rights Office
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The UN Human Rights Office is deeply concerned about human rights violations against Muslims in the Rohinga community in…
19 Jun 2013 / Listen /NASA chief sees role for global participation in deep space exploration
![Mazlan Othman, Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and Charles Bolden, Administrator of NASA at a press briefing in Vienna. [UNIS Vienna photo]](http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/space-12.jpg "space 12")
The United States is looking to strengthen its partnerships with the UN and other countries in the promotion of…
18 Jun 2013 / Listen /A Vietnamese child with disability inspires others
Children with disabilities are often discriminated against and excluded from society, leaving them among the most vulnerable in the…
18 Jun 2013 / Listen /World Oceans Day focuses on climate change and Pacific Islanders
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The impact of climate change and degradation in one particular area of the world was highlighted during the observance…
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