This year’s International Day of Democracy is an opportunity to look for ways to invigorate democracy and seek answers to the systemic challenges it faces. It includes tackling economic and political inequalities, making democracies more inclusive by bringing the young and marginalized into the political system, and making democracies more innovative and responsive to emerging challenges … Continue reading In celebration of the 2018 International Day of Democracy
Rohingya refugees have demanded guarantees for a safe return to Myanmar during a visit to refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district by a United Nations Security Council delegation. Representatives from the 15 member countries of the UN organ on Sunday spoke with some of the 700,000 people who fled what the UN has called … Continue reading Rohingya refugees want justice from the United Nations
The United Nations on Saturday passed a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire across Syria, but Western diplomats said they were skeptical the Syrian regime would actually end its ferocious assault on the rebel-held suburb of Eastern Ghouta. After days of intense negotiations, Russia agreed not use its veto to scuttle the UN security council resolution, which … Continue reading 30-day ceasefire in Syria approved by the UN
Winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Beatrice Fihn, told newsmen at a press conference in New York that the United Nations will continue in its effort to eliminate nuclear weapons, and urged nations to embrace the organization's Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Image shows Beatrice Finn (center) at the UN event in New … Continue reading How this UN Treaty will end Nuclear Weapons
Not less than 18 Egyptian policemen were killed and three reportedly wounded last Monday during an ISIS attack on a security convoy in the Sinai Peninsula, which is gripped by an insurgency. Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted by its news agency Amaq. Security and medical sources said the … Continue reading Death Toll from attack on Egyptian Police rises to 18
The United Nations children agency has expressed extreme concern at the appalling increase in the cruel and calculated use of children, especially girls, as “human bombs” in north-east Nigeria. “Since the beginning of January 2017, 83 children had been used as so-called human bombs, 55 being girls, most of them often under 15 years old,” UN … Continue reading Children used as ‘Human Bombs’ in Nigeria are ‘Victims,’ not ‘Perpetrators’
The United Nations today received an expert report that summarizes the new information made available by Member States and other sources and assesses whether and to what degree that information helps to establish the conditions and circumstances resulting in the tragic deaths of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others traveling with him. Mr. Hammarskjöld served as … Continue reading Expert concludes review of new information on death of former UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
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