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/ 9 September 2008
With a population of more than 50-million, the country has become the world’s biggest prison camp. Pressure is building on the UN to act.
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/ 7 September 2008
United Nations peacekeepers said on Saturday they had negotiated the departure of a rebel army from a village in the DRC’s lawless east.
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/ 3 September 2008
All 17 people aboard a humanitarian aid plane died when it crashed into a mountain in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN said on Wednesday.
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/ 2 September 2008
New UN human rights chief Navanethem Pillay said on Monday she would be impartial in her role but not shy away from confronting rights abusers.
Time is running out in the fight against global warming, the United Nations’s top climate change official warned as new talks got under way.
Experts met in Geneva on Monday to consider ways of stopping scientific advances being converted into more lethal biological weapons.
The UN’s peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire is financing ”1 000 microprojects” to rehabilitate the country’s ex-fighters.
Moscow has to take some of the blame. But it is the West’s policy of liberal interventionism that has fuelled war in Georgia.
The commander of the UN-AU mission in Darfur on Tuesday urged the world community to put pressure on the fragmented insurgency in the region.
A Russian envoy called on Nato to hold an extraordinary Russia-Nato council on Tuesday to discuss the dire situation in Georgia.
A UN envoy to Western Sahara believes the independence of the desert territory from Morocco to have become an unrealistic plan.
The US State Department said major powers had agreed on Wednesday to consider more United Nations sanctions against Iran.
Mary Robinson, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCHR), who faulted countries such as the United States, China and Israel for transgressions of humanitarian law and civil liberties, was forced to retire because of intense lobbying against an extended tenure for her, writes Thalif Deen. A former president of Ireland, Robinson was […]
South Africa’s Navi Pillay takes up the post of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in September.
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has left for Mexico City to attend the United Nations XVII International Aids Conference.
I am a war child. A survivor plagued by memories. When they open their eyes, children in Darfur see the same.
The UN Security Council voted on Wednesday to disband its peacekeeping mission to the volatile border between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Iran’s president called on Tuesday for developing nations to unite against what he said was bias by the UN Security Council.
The UN General Assembly and UN chief Ban Ki-Moon have called for a truce in hostilities around the world during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The UN General Assembly has approved by consensus the appointment of SA Judge Navanethem Pillay as the UN’s new high commissioner for human rights.
Five million people will need help within months, warns the UN. Families flee as many are reduced to one meal a day, writes Chris McGreal.
At least 42 passengers drowned and more than 100 are missing after their boat sank on the river Oubangui in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday formally appointed South African Judge Navanethem Pillay as his high commissioner for human rights.
Somalia’s new opposition head, Islamist cleric Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, has vowed to protect aid workers in the Horn of Africa nation.
Rebuilding Burma’s cyclone-devastated south and bringing aid to millions will cost -billion over the next three years, the UN and Asean say.
South African Judge Navanethem Pillay is to be named as the new United Nations high commissioner for human rights, diplomats and UN officials say.
Gordon Brown will hold urgent talks with European leaders about Zimbabwe on Sunday after a UN sanctions plan collapsed in disarray.
Robert Mugabe is ”happy” at the veto of a draft United Nations resolution to impose tough new sanctions, as talks continue in Pretoria.
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and opposition held a second day of talks in SA on Friday as the UN delayed a vote on fresh sanctions against Mugabe’s regime.
A United Nations tribunal on Thursday acquitted Macedonia’s former interior minister of murder, cruel treatment and other war crimes.
Sudan on Thursday condemned an attack on United Nations-led peacekeepers in Darfur, accusing rebels of orchestrating the ambush.
Dozens of suspected Janjaweed militiamen have ambushed a United Nations convoy in Sudan’s Darfur region, killing seven peacekeepers.