Adrian Edwards, the United Nations Refugee Agency's (UNHCR) spokesperson says that conflict and instability in Yemen"had limited the ability of the authorities to address trafficking, particularly along the Red Seacoast where Yemeni smugglers and traffickers are often waiting to receive new arrivals from the Horn of Africa." CH UNTV
Amid rising deaths among the Palestinian refugee population in Syria and funding shortfalls for humanitarian assistance in the war-torn country, a senior United Nations official today (11 March) urged international donors to step up their financial support for relief efforts in what he described as "a messy, violent and tragic war for the civilian population." UNTV
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (14 January) said Israel's plans to building 3,000 housing units east of Jerusalem are illegal under international law, and the project should be dropped. UNTV
Maintenance crews, together with the local communities in Gaza, worked into the evening hours from Friday to prepare schools to receive students after the 10 day conflict. UNRWA
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the announcement of a Gaza ceasefire today (21 November) and commended Palestinian and Israeli leaders for “stepping back from the brink”. Ban has been meeting officials in the region for the past days in an effort to help defuse the Gaza crisis. UNTV / UNRWA / NILE TV INTERNATIONAL
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (21 November) travelled to Ramallah in the West Bank as part of his efforts to help bring about an end to the ongoing violence in Gaza and southern Israel. UNRWA
The Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Gaza Operations, Robert Turner on Monday visited Shifa Hosptial in Gaza City “to see, at first hand, the dreadful price this conflict is exacting on the people of Gaza”. UNRWA
The top United Nations official in the Middle East told the Security Council today (17 September) that against the background of the severe financial and economic crisis currently affecting the Palestinian Authority, "the lack of progress between Israelis and Palestinians on the political track and the continuing conflict and occupation put at risk the viability [...]
Jeffrey Feltman, the recently appointed United Nations chief for Political Affairs said today (22 August) at the United Nations in New York that while direct exchanges had continued between the Palestinian and Israeli authorities, he still was concerned by the lack of progress in the negotiations that could lead to "successful outcomes." UNTV
PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi Tuesday told the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People that the two-state solution is being systematically and deliberately destroyed by Israeli policies and measures and that without an intervention to end Israel’s practices by the end of the year, the prospects for peace [...]