UN News

• International Day of Cooperatives sets stage for long-standing production and consumption

  7-7-2018 Flash News UN News 941

  Each year on the first Saturday in July, the international community celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives – successful businesses that...

• Nuclear non-proliferation treaty marks first anniversary, but still lacks sufficient numbers to become law

  7-7-2018 Flash News UN News 1017

  On Saturday, Secretary-General  António Guterres  welcomed the first anniversary of the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...

• New identity cards deliver recognition and protection for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

  7-7-2018 Flash News UN News 1079

  Rohingya refugees sheltering in Bangladesh will soon have credit card-sized plastic IDs – many possessing, for the first time ever, an individual...

• Libya urged to end migrant detention amid warnings over threat to Mediterranean search and rescue

  6-7-2018 Flash News UN News 1034

  The head of UN Migration Agency (IOM), William Lacy Swing, has urged Libya to stop detaining migrants who have been returned to the country’s...

• UN relief chief concludes disaster-preparedness mission to Haiti and Panama

  6-7-2018 Flash News UN News 1026

  The top United Nations emergency relief official has assured the Haitian government of the organization’s support for its efforts to prepare...

• Girls groomed for suicide missions fight back against the extremists of Lake Chad

  6-7-2018 Flash News UN News 916

  Halima Yakoy Adam won’t forget 22nd December in 2015, the day she was supposed to carry out a suicide bomb attack in the Lac Region town of Bol,...

• Forests ‘essential’ for the future, UN agriculture chief spells out in new report

  6-7-2018 Flash News UN News 888

  Time is running out for the world’s forests, warns a new report by the United Nations agriculture agency, urging governments to foster an...

• Fisherwomen of Lake Chad show optimism in face of multiple challenges

  5-7-2018 Flash News UN News 951

  It’s eight o’clock in the morning and fifty-year-old Falmata Mboh Ali paddles her small dugout canoe to the shores of a tributary of Lake Chad in...

• Act now to end violence, Zeid urges Nicaraguan authorities

  5-7-2018 Flash News UN News 861

  The Nicaraguan authorities should “take real steps” to prevent further loss of life in the country amid ongoing protests and violent repression by...

• Yemen parties underscore ‘strong desire’ for peace, UN Envoy reports

  5-7-2018 Flash News UN News 514

  Warring parties in Yemen have expressed their “strong desire” to achieve peace, the United Nations Envoy for the country has reported.

• Zeid calls for ICC probe into Myanmar Rohingya crisis

  4-7-2018 Flash News UN News 545

  Myanmar should “have some shame” after attempting to convince the world that it is willing to take back hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled...

• Mali facing ‘alarming’ rise in rights violations, warns UN expert

  4-7-2018 Flash News UN News 575

  In Mali, a senior United Nations rights expert on Wednesday described an “alarming” deterioration of the security, human rights and humanitarian...

• Women-Friendly Spaces for Rohingya refugees: A place for protection and care

  4-7-2018 Flash News UN News 682

  Simple shelters that are little more than huts with bamboo sticks and plastic sheeting for walls, and tarpaulins overhead, are serving a very...

• 'We will not give up on looking for peace for South Sudan': UN deputy chief

  3-7-2018 Flash News UN News 628

  In a visit to South Sudan on Tuesday, the UN Deputy Secretary-General spoke mother-to-mother with displaced women, pledging that she and other...

• Egypt urged to free prominent couple jailed arbitrarily since last June: UN rights office

  3-7-2018 Flash News UN News 586

  The UN human rights office is urging Egypt to free a prominent married couple that has been arbitrarily detained for more than a year.