Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:31:34 +0000
BERLIN – Diplomats and climate experts gathered Monday in Germany for U.N.-hosted talks on climate change amid growing public pressure for governments to act faster against global warming.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:17:21 +0000
The U.S. government expressed deep concerns to the U.N. about a reported trip by the U.N. counterterrorism chief to the restive Xinjiang region in China’s far west.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:01:37 +0000
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Gen. Oscar Albayalde assured on Monday that the police operates with respect for human rights and the rule of law, after the United Nations human rights experts called for an independent probe on “unlawful deaths” in the drug war.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:41:17 +0000
A high-ranking official from the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) called on nations to strengthen its efforts to have more women serve as peacekeepers around the world.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:54:27 +0000
UN’s emergency relief coordinator said more than 2 million men, women, and children could die of starvation in Somalia by summer’s end if international aid is not sent quickly to the drought-stricken African country.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 07:01:14 +0000
A UN report said North Koreans working in hundreds of capitalistic-style markets are often abused and forced to engage in bribery to survive.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 11:48:57 +0000
The head of the United Nations health agency said the risk that the Ebola virus will spread remains “very high.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 08:50:31 +0000
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that he’s traveling to three South Pacific island nations to see the effects of climate change firsthand.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 13:06:37 +0000
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations secretary-general said the world must dramatically change the way it fuels factories, vehicles and homes to limit future warming to a level scientists call nearly impossible.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 11:38:42 +0000
Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday in the United Nations’ first comprehensive report on biodiversity.
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