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In shadow of Beirut and Paris terror attacks, UN Security Council discusses root causes of conflict

We are not yet properly integrating United Nations action across the inter-dependent pillars of our work: peace, development and human rights,” he ...

UN at 70: former envoy and Nobel laureate says Security Council reform vital for more effective ...

UN Photo/Mark Garten ... UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe ... Speaking to the UN NewsCentre following the book's launch at UN Headquarters last month, ...

World Toilet Day draws attention to lack of sanitation

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World Toilet Day, which started in 2001 and was recognized by the United Nations in 2013, is meant to draw attention to the lack of adequate ...

Reverse exodus: refugees flee Yemen for strife-riven Horn of Africa, UN reports

13 November 2015 – In a reversal of a multi-year boat exodus that has seen hundreds of thousands of Somalis risk death at sea to flee their ...

'No turning back in Myanmar,' says UN human rights expert in wake of historic elections

UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré ... the recent elections in Myanmar as 'a new chapter in the country's history,' United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee ...

Sri Lanka must fulfil the rights of families of the disappeared –UN rights experts

Vijitha Pavanendran holds a photo of her husband who was killed by ... of thousands of families of disappeared, the United Nations Working Group on ...

With Lebanon facing multiple challenges, Security Council reiterates support for country's institutions

Photo: IRIN/Marie Claire Feghali (file photo) ... Reiterating its full support for the UNInterim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the Council renewed its call on ...

Sudan: for first time in four years, UN relief agencies visit areas in Central Darfur

Noting that communities in West Darfur have difficulties to manage water facilities, theUN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UNICEF, ...

'Rare moment of diplomatic opportunity to end conflict in Syria,' says Ban as talks in Vienna ...

UN Photo/Mark Garten ... Meanwhile, the UN spokesperson issued a separate statement by the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) noting that ...

Britain will not let terrorists exploit Syrian migrant crisis, Theresa May vows as she promises ...

The Home Secretary said both the United Nations and officials at her ... site of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall Photo: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters.

UN Internet Governance Forum closes, highlights linkages with sustainable development

Photo: Visual News Associates/World Bank ... of the recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations announced.

UN Police play crucial role for success of peacekeeping missions, top officials tell Security Council

UN Police (UNPOL) from the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) conduct a patrol to the Yieth-Liet Police Post in the village of Karich. UN Photo/JC ...

Burundi: UN experts urge Security Council to follow resolution with 'concrete' steps to stop rights ...

Further, the independent experts called on the UN to provide all the resources necessary for the High Commission for Human Rights, the African ...

Biodegradable plastics are not the answer to reducing marine litter, says UN

UN Photo/Martine Perret ... the physical and chemical risks that plastics pose to marine environment, accord to a United Nations report released today.

Somalia: senior UN official calls for global support to improve human rights situation

Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Šimonović leaves a newsconference in Mogadishu, at the end of a five-day visit to Somalia. UN ...

Ethiopia: UN warns of deepening food insecurity, allocates emergency funds to tackle severe drought

16 November 2015 – With Ethiopia experiencing its worst drought in decades theUnited Nations is reporting deepening food insecurity and “severe ...

Ban Ki-moon to visit North Korea and meet Kim Jong-un

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, is expected to meet ... South Korea's Yonhap news agency, quoting an unidentified high-level UN source. ... a visit to the Pyongyang Catfish Farm Photo: Xinhua/REX Shutterstock.

The Latest: UN official: Wars create staggering needs

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Migrants sit at no man's land near Idomeni village, northern Greece on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. The United Nations refugee agency says Macedonia ...

Governments, tech companies commit to protecting children from online sexual exploitation ...

... governments and international organizations today pledged to protect millions of children from online sexual exploitation, said the United Nations ...

North Korea set to face UN censure over human rights

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Picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attending a photo session with ...

UN: Iran cuts down on some, but not all nuke technology

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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015 file photo, US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at ...

Ban phones France's Hollande to offer condolences in wake of terrorist attacks

UN Photo/Evan Schneider (file) ... In a readout of the conversation, the UN chief commended France's determination and active role in mobilizing the ...

Ethiopia: crucial funding helps UN agency avoid cutbacks in food aid to drought-affected people

Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN ... The United Nations agency stressed that the scaling up of food and nutrition support is crucial to prevent vulnerable ...

Settling Israeli-Palestinian conflict would help curb terrorism, says UN Middle East envoy

In At Tur, near Al Maqassad hospital in East Jerusalem, one of several roadblocks, placed by Israeli forces in October 2015 in Palestinian ...

Hales going to Paris for UN climate change conference

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PORTLAND TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO - Mayor Charlie Hales and ... Mayor Charlie Hales is planning to attend the 2015 United Nations Climate Change ...

10 Photos Show the Reality of a Warming Planet - EcoWatch

France Strikes ISIS Targets in Syria in Retaliation for Attacks

Paris shooting: more than 150 killed and 200 injured after Kalashnikov, grenade and suicide ... -Telegraph.co.uk

The United States provided French officials with information to help them ... Even before the latest violence, the nation was still reeling from a smaller set of deadly attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, at a ... Photo. Mourners outside La Belle Équipe, where at least a dozen people died.

Marking World Toilet Day, UN urges 'open, frank' discussion on importance of hygiene and sanitation

The UN chief went on to say that a quarter of all children under five were stunted, and countless other children, as well as adults, are falling seriously ill ...

Facebook's Outpouring of Support for Paris Leaves Out the World Community

Replace the French flag with the U.N. flag in Facebook profile pictures to ... On social media, users are overlaying their profile pictures with a French ...

Refugees should not be turned into scapegoats following Paris attacks, says UN agency

A volunteer on the Greek Island of Lesvos gathers a baby girl in her arms, moments after her family arrived in an inflatable boat. Photo: ...

Saudi Arabia will host conference to unite Syrian opposition

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U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto ...

Why This North Korean Street Style Story Is Dangerous

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Photo: Courtesy of Mihaela Noroc, Atlas of Beauty. ... The fact that more women are wearing high heels was worthy of international news. ... But when you consider that these women live in a nation where the United Nations ...

Paris attacks: Abdelhamid Abaaoud 'killed' in police raid on Saint-Denis apartment - live

The Latest: US: Very likely IS directed the Paris attacks - Washington Post

Hollande and Ban Ki-moon have discussed the 'rapid' adoption of a UN ..... Frence President Francois Hollande speaks in Paris Photo: Sky News.

Israeli punitive demolitions of Palestinian homes violates international law – senior UN relief official

Israeli authorities demolished this residential structure in the Palestinian community of Al Jiftlik Abu Al Ajaj in Area C of the Occupied West Bank in ...

On World Diabetes Day, UN calls for greater action to turn tide of growing global epidemic

13 November 2015 – With the World Health Organization (WHO) warning that diabetes will be the 7th leading cause of death by 2030, United Nations ...

Some 3300 people a day still arriving on Lesvos – UN refugee agency

Members of Samaritan's Purse, a UNHCR partner on the Greek island of Lesvos, install a drainage pipe at a sanitation facility. Photo: ...

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Celebrities with HIV/AIDS

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Charlie Sheen announced on Nov. 17, 2015, that he is HIV-positive. The actor revealed he was diagnosed about four years earlier. "It's a hard three ...

Top UN relief official in Mali condemns ongoing attacks against humanitarian workers

13 November 2015 – In the wake of more than two dozen attacks against aid workers and their facilities in the past months, the top United Nations ...

UN says 13 million affected by disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean region in 2015

Epidemics like chikungunya, a virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, was among the disasters which affected 13 million people in Latin ...

How a Syrian refugee gets to the US

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By Ashley Gold & Paul Blake BBC News, Washington ... persons have to leave Syria and find a camp run by the United Nations High Commissioner ...

Yemen: UN warns humanitarian situation has deteriorated 'drastically' as conflict claims 5700 lives

WHO has so far delivered 960,000 liters of safe water to the population of Al-Mothafar, Sala and Al-Qahera district of Taiz City, Yemen. Photo: WHO ...

ISIS Shares Image of Explosive It Says Brought Down Russian Jet

It includes a caption that says, “EXCLUSIVE – Image of the IED used to ... to a nationin the American-led Western coalition against the Islamic State, the ... the mayor said at an 11 p.m. news conference in a bustling-as-usual Times ... Although some migrants from Asia and Africa do try to reach the United ...

Ensuring 15000 survivors have support they need is 'my priority number one' – UN envoy on Ebola

Photo: Samwar Fallah/IRIN ... the United Nations Special Envoy on Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro, reported today, underscoring that his top priority is to ...

Talks under way for UN rights chief to visit North Korea

(AP Photo/Edith M. Lederer) ... UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea and the United Nations both confirmed Tuesday that discussions are ... North Korean Ambassador-at-large Ri Hung Sik told a news conference Tuesday that the ...

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Prime Minister's Office: Photo caption

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Prime Minister's Office in a news release on November 15, 2015. That's not ... Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the United Nations, photo credit: AP.

Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan speaks at the Second United Nations Special Thematic Session ...

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... at the Second United Nations Special Thematic Session photo preview 52391926 ... USA UNITED NATIONS JAPAAN CROWN PRINCE ... Crown Prince Naruhito was asked by the UN to attend the Special Thematic Session ..... Athens News Agency-Macedonian Press Agency Logo ANP Algemeen ...

United Nations denies Ban Ki-Moon plans visit to North Korea

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The United Nations has denied reports that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to .... Mini submarine captured on satellite photo of Chinese dockyard.

Pope Francis Addresses The United Nations General Assembly

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