The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR says today (21 May) that the number of Syrian refugees flooding into Jordan has suddenly fallen from several thousand a day to a handful, warning that fighting may be preventing people in need from arriving. CH UNTV
At the United Nations Headquarters in New York and in Geneva officials today commemorated the International day Against Homophobia. UNTV/CH UNTV
A record US$ 260 billion was sent home by migrant Asian workers last year and one in ten Asian families depend on this remittance money to survive. But, according to a new report to be launched on 20 May 2013, high fees and limited financial services mean that the potential impact this money could have [...]
The United Nation’s refugee agency (UNHCR) said today that the number of refugees fleeing Syria had reached more than 1.5 million people. CH UNTV
The United Nations labour agency (ILO) today welcomed an agreement signed by international fashion brands and retailers, and trade unions to prevent workplace disasters and insisted action had to happen immediately on improving conditions in factories in Bangladesh. CH-UNTV
Briefing the Security Council today, Margaret Vogt Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations (UN) Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (CAR) says that "there is an urgent need to restore security stability in the CAR." UNTV
United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron, one of the Co-Chairs of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, briefs journalists on the steps to take after the U.N. Millennium Development Goals expire in 2015. UNTV
The United Nations General Assembly today approved a resolution condemning the Syrian Government and giving recognition to the Syrian National Coalition by 107 votes in favour, 12 votes against and 59 abstentions. UNTV
The Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, along with the head of the UN office against drugs and crime, Yuri Fedotov, and Oscar-winning actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador, Mira Sorvino, called today (13 May) for concrete actions to combat the trafficking in persons, a modern form of slavery that creates millions of victims, and whose profits in the [...]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Friday that reports of massacres allegedly carried out by Syrian government forces and pro-government militias in recent days should spur international action to find a solution to the conflict and ensure those responsible for serious human rights violations are made to account for their crimes. [...]