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New York - The UN Security Council called on Ivory Coast on Wednesday to hold general elections as soon as possible, using the provisional list of 5.3 million voters that has been approved by the United Nations. The members of the Security Council...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday selected U.S. foreign policy expert Tony Lake, who was an adviser to President Barack Obama, as his candidate to head UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency.
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has been named a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for the fight against poverty, the United Nations Development Program announced Wednesday.
New York - General elections in the West African nation Ivory Coast had been postponed once again after more than 400,000 people were fraudulently registered to vote, the United Nations was told Wednesday. Ivory Coast's UN Ambassador Alcide Djedje to...
New York - Spanish actor Antonio Banderas was appointed United Nations goodwill ambassador on Wednesday to help in the global fight against poverty, empowerment of women and protection of the environment. The goals set by the UN Development Programme...
The U.N.'s top human rights official criticized Israeli and Palestinian authorities on Wednesday for failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes last year in the Gaza Strip.
Last week, Tennessee lawmakers passed a strongly worded resolution introduced by state Sen. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, urging the U.S. Senate to reject the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Tennessee Senate is to be commended for its stance.
KABUL, 17 March 2010 (IRIN) - Armed hostilities have boosted the number of internally displaced persons to over 296,000 but an effective humanitarian response is being hampered by insecurity, the UN Secretary-General says in a new report to the UN Security Council.
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union said it was “surprised and concerned” to learn that some United Nations credits have re-entered the carbon market even after being surrendered for compliance in the bloc’s cap-and-trade program.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday the United Nations will remain in charge of talks on a new global climate change accord, dismissing a shift to negotiations with a streamlined group of countries suggested by U.N. climate envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland.
Manila - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged peoples around the world to shun religious extremism and strive for greater interfaith understanding. We need to reject extremism, Ban said in a video message at the opening of the Specia...
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Anthony Lake , who served as national security adviser to former President Bill Clinton , has been appointed executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
Chadian authorities and the United Nations will on March 22 hold further talks on withdrawing UN peacekeepers from Chad, as requested by Ndjamena, the UN force chief said Monday.
UN climate envoy expects talks to increasingly move away from UN format Climate change - Environment - Activism - Organizations - United States
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Congo rejected a demand by the United Nations and Western powers that the government publish a schedule for next year’s parliamentary and presidential elections, saying the decision is a sovereign one.
As US seeks support at UN Security Council for new sanctions against Iran, Tehran continues to defy international community
HYDERABAD, India----4G Identity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. announces that it has won a contract with the United Nations World Food Programme to expand a critical food distribution program with the objective of eliminating fraud and ensuring that all qualified citizens receive their proper share of assistance.
New York - Anthony Lake, a Clinton administration national security adviser, was appointed Tuesday as executive director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), which provides healthcare and assistance to children and women worldwide. He brings with him...
UNICEF said Wednesday it feared the intensification of fighting in Afghanistan under the new anti-Taliban strategy could drive more families to send their children to work illegally in Europe.
AMSTERDAM - Talks on a new global climate change accord, bogged down for years in contested negotiations among nearly 200 countries, will increasingly move outside the sluggish U.N. framework and focus on a streamlined group of countries, special U.N. envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland said Tuesday.
Delegates at a U.N. conference on endangered species say there is growing opposition to a proposed ban on the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna.
