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U.N.: World Faces ‘Climate Apartheid’ with 120 Million More in Poverty
There is no shortage of alarm bells ringing over climate change – UN expert New York, N.Y. Climate change “threatens to undo the last 50 years” of development, global hea…
U.K.: Expert Warns of “Stark Increase” in Hate Crimes, Post-Brexit
London, U.K. Sounding an alarm over a “stark increase” in hate crimes across the United Kingdom as well as “widespread discrimination” faced by ethnic minorities, a Unite…
'Tolerance' is a Commitment to Seek in Our Diversity, and Unite Humanity
New York, N.Y. Underscoring the importance of tolerance, particularly in today's diverse world, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the UN Educat…
At U.N., Tennis Legend Says Human Rights and Sports ‘a Perfect Fit’
New York, N.Y. Tennis legend and gender equality activist Billie Jean King has had a stellar career in sports, identifying the boundaries that divide people and tearing t…
Ban to Convene International Ebola Recovery Conference in New York
New York, N.Y. To help mobilize needed resources “in the last mile of the response” against the Ebola outbreak and to start the affected West African countries on the pat…
Eradicating Poverty Means Ending Humiliation and Exclusion
New York, N.Y. Poverty is both a cause and consequence of marginalization and social exclusion, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, stressing that to…
Governments Must Act to Reverse Alarming Rise in Childhood Obesity
New York, N.Y. Facing a global epidemic in childhood obesity with the number of overweight children under five on track to jump from 42 million to 70 million over the nex…
Growing Inequality Among Children in High Income Countries
New York, N.Y. A new United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) report presents evidence on the ways inequality is affecting children in high income countries, in areas su…
Int'l. Volunteer Day: Ban Highlights Youth as Change Agents
New York, N.Y. “There are more than 1.2 billion youth in the world today, with incredible potential to tackle challenges and act as agents of change,” he said in his mess…
Investing in 10-Year-Old Girls Helps Reach Global Goals
New York, N.Y. If all of the ten-year-old girls living in developing countries that currently drop out of or do not attend school were to complete their secondary educati…
Ireland: U.N. Experts Urge Amending Abortion Ban
New York, N.Y. A woman in Ireland who was forced to choose between carrying her foetus to term, knowing it would not survive, or seeking an abortion abroad was subjected…
Nepal’s Quake-Damaged Museums Re-Open Thanks to Cultural Agency
New York, N.Y. More than a year since the devastating earthquakes that struck Nepal in April and May 2015, through the combined work of the United Nations cultural agency…
Rural Women's Empowerment Critical to Sustainable Development
New York, N.Y. Marking the International Day of Rural Women, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that rural women are critical to the success of almost…
Shelter, Clean Water to Families Amid Iraq’s Mosul Offensive
New York, N.Y. With the military offensive still unfolding in Mosul, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and the UN Children's Fund…
South Korea Parliament Votes to Impeach Park
Seoul, South Korea — The South Korean National Assembly has voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye. With 234 of the parliament's 300 members voting Friday for impeachme…
The Conflict with the South China Sea Ruling Explained
New York, N.Y. An international tribunal in The Hague has rebuked China over its behavior in the South China Sea and found no legal basis for Beijing's vast claims to sov…
U.N. Announces Launch of ‘Ground-Breaking’ School Feeding Analysis
New York, N.Y. The United Nations today announced the release of a major analysis of global school meal practices, which offers guidance on how to design and implement la…
U.N. Appoints ‘Angry Birds’ Red for International Day of Happiness
New York, N.Y. The United Nations today appointed Red, the leader of the “Angry Birds” mobile game characters, as an envoy to inspire climate action toward a sustainable…
U.N. Latest ‘Greening the Blue’ Report Shows Great Progress
New York, N.Y. 7 November 2016 – In the latest edition of the United Nations report on the organization’s greenhouse gas emissions, the world body announced that it emitt…
U.N. Mission in Haiti Focusing on Aid After Hurricane
New York, N.Y. While Haiti is still counting its dead and assessing the damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, the powerful Category 4 storm that battered the tiny…
U.N. Provides Food Aid to 8,000 People in Central African Republic
New York, N.Y. The United Nations food relief agency is providing emergency aid to 8,000 people affected by an upsurge in violence in the north of the Central African Rep…
U.N. Urges Participation of Young People in Peace and Decision-making
New York, N.Y. With more young people around the world than ever before, it is necessary to include them when discussing global solutions related to peace, development, a…
U.N. Wants Ethiopia to Allow International Panel to Stop Violence
New York, NY – Urging Ethiopian authorities to end their violent crackdown on peaceful protests, which has reportedly led to the death of over 600 people since November 2…
U.N.: Not One Child Untouched by Recent Gaza Conflict
New York, N.Y. There is not a single child who has not been adversely affected by the recent conflict in Gaza, where children suffer from bedwetting, difficulties in slee…
Youth Can Lead Drive to Set World on Course to a More Sustainable Future
New York, N.Y. The world's young people – who make up the largest generation of youth in history – can lead a global drive to break the patterns of the past and set the w…
‘Give Young People Decent Jobs and They Will Create Better Future’ – U.N. Chief
New York, N.Y. When young people have decent jobs, political weight, negotiating muscle and real influence in the world, they will create a better future, United Nations…
‘Orange the World’ Campaign Effort to End Violence Against Girls, Women
New York, N.Y. From parades to soccer matches, school debates, and the lighting up of hundreds of iconic monuments, starting tomorrow a United Nations call to “Orange the…
Auschwitz Liberation at 70: 'We Are Being Tested Again'
New York, N.Y. Seventy years ago today, allied forces liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, United Nations Secretary-General…
Colombia: ‘Significant Progress’ Towards Final Peace Agreement
New York, N.Y. Following a recent upsurge in fighting between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Government, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today we…
Hellenic Fund Launching to Help Kids, including Refugees, in Hellas
New York, N.Y. I am pleased to announce that our Foundation will launch our Hellenic Fund to support children in Greece - whether economically distressed, orphaned, or re…
Human Space Flight Day: Advancing Boundaries of Exploration
New York, N.Y. Marking International Day of Human Space Flight, the United Nations today spotlighted the contribution of space science and technology to sustainable devel…
President of Sri Lanka Details County’s ‘New Vision’
New York, N.Y. After years of conflict, “a new era of democracy” dawned in Sri Lanka this year, ushering in justice, freedom and equality, the country’s President told th…
Slavery Abolition Day: Beware Trafficking of Refugees, Migrants
New York, N.Y. With over 60 million people driven from their homes and millions more crossing borders to seek a better life, the risk of mounting human trafficking and en…
U.N. Adopts New Global Goals for Sustainable Development
New York, N.Y. The 193-Member United Nations General Assembly today formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of bold new Global Goal…
U.N. Demands End to Use of Child Soldiers
New York, N.Y. From Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the world's conflicts become more brutal, intense and widespread, children are finding t…
U.N. Hails Austria, Germany for Helping Migrants
New York, N.Y. As Austria and Germany begin receiving thousands of refugees and migrants who crossed the border last night from Hungary, the United Nations refugee agency…
U.N. Refugee Agency Seeks to Protect Displaced Gays Facing Violence
New York, N.Y. With lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons in forced displacement facing discrimination, prejudice, violence and other hurdles…
U.N. Urges Kenya to Reconsider Displacing 350,000 Refugees
New York, N.Y. The United Nations refugee agency today urged Kenyan authorities to reconsider their decision to shut down within the next three months Dadaab refugee camp…
U.N. Urges Mexico to End 'Misery' of Enforced Disappearances
New York, N.Y. Despite significant progress towards building a solid human rights framework, the Mexican Government must nevertheless “bind itself to a new sense of urgen…
U.N.: Flow of Refugee and Migrant Children into Greece Doubles
New York, N.Y. About a third of the refugees and migrants who have drowned in the Aegean Sea this year were children, while the number of children applying for asylum in…
UNHCR: Migrant Women and Children Face Sex Abuse
Washington, D.C. The United Nations refugee agency is warning that migrant women and children traveling to Europe are particularly subject to sex abuse, calling on countr…
UNICEF Proposes Fund for Education in Emergencies
New York, N.Y. Two senior United Nations officials today proposed the establishment of a humanitarian fund for education in emergencies that would offer millions of the w…
World AIDS Day: UNICEF Urges More Investment, Access to Treatment
New York, N.Y. An estimated 1.1 million HIV infections among children under 15 have been averted, but disparity in access to treatment is hampering progress towards reach…
After CIA Torture Revelations, U.S. Must Recover Moral High Ground – U.N. Expert
Editor's Note: I am pleased to have presented an Award of Acknowledgement to H.E. Juan E. Méndez on January 9, 2010 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago as part of the Wo…
Ban Says World Must Press Ahead on Equal Rights for LGBT Community
New York, N.Y. Bringing homophobia and transphobia to an end is “a great human rights cause,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, adding that the fight against disc…
Ban-ki Moon Designates Leonardo DiCaprio U.N. Messenger of Peace
New York, N.Y. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated Academy Award-nominated actor and committed environmental activist, Leonardo DiCaprio, as a U.N…
Ban: Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Must Inspire Nuke-Free Future
New York, N.Y. Remembering all those who died in the bombing of Hiroshima and, later, Nagasaki, some 69 years ago, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said…
No Surprise: Russia Vetoes Resolution on Ukraine
New York, N.Y. A view of the Security Council as Vitaly I. Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the U.N., vetoes a draft resolution which declar…
On World Teachers' Day, U.N. Agencies Urge Investing in Educators
New York, N.Y. Investing in teachers is urgently needed to provide the best possible opportunities for millions of children, youth and adults worldwide, the heads of vari…
U.N. Marks World Day Against Death Penalty: End ‘Cruel Practice’
New York, N.Y. The continuing application of the death penalty is a “cruel practice” that undermines human dignity, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as h…
U.N. Urges Greater Protections for People with Dementia
New York, N.Y. A United Nations independent expert today called on Member States to do more to protect older people affected by dementia from stigmatization, discriminati…
U.N.: 'We Must Leave No One Behind' to End AIDS by 2030
New York, N.Y. Ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 requires a comprehensive approach that includes social justice, the democratization of science, gender equity, and a peopl…
U.N.: 3,700 Children Orphaned by Ebola, Lives Shattered
New York, N.Y. Amid a climbing death toll and widespread panic, the Ebola outbreak continues to ravage West Africa leaving thousands of orphaned children in its wake, an…
As G20 Summit Nears, U.N. Calls for Sustainable Growth For All
New York, N.Y. Eyes will be fixed on St. Petersburg, Russia on Sep. 5, as finance ministers and central bank governors gather for the upcoming two-day Group of 20 (G20) S…
Nelson Mandela International Day Announced by the United Nations
New York, N.Y. Nelson Mandela is about to be released from the hospital, his health condition now stabilized. A South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician,…
Photo of the Day - May 18, 2013
South Sudanese Returnees Board Plane for Journey Home Malakal, South Sudan. Today in Malakal, South Sudan, 150 returnees line up to board a plane chartered by the Interna…
United Nations' International Day Mine Awareness
International Day of Mine Awareness in Somalia. Section of ground is cordoned off during demonstration held by the United Nations Mine Action Service in Mogadishu. Tweet