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.
Suspected Janjaweed militia have ambushed the beleaguered United Nations mission in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region.
Cambodia’s prime minister on Tuesday hailed the designation of an 11th-century Hindu temple as a world heritage landmark.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday led the world in condemning the killing of a top UN official in Mogadishu as an ”outrageous” act.
The UN admits that the past half-year was turbulent because of the credit crunch that sent shares reeling and dulled investors’ appetite for risk.
The international community must deploy UN peacekeepers in Somalia without delay or risk worsening insecurity, the country’s prime minister says.
Robert Mugabe said on Friday he is only open to negotiations on an end to Zimbabwe’s political crisis if he is accepted as the country’s president.
South African progressive forces must urgently reopen discussions on racism and xenophobia, argues Horace Campbell.
China’s devastating earthquake has left nearly two million people without a means to make a living, state press said on Tuesday.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pledged to work to mediate the crisis in Zimbabwe, saying the election had implications for all of Africa.
Zimbabwe’s crisis will now move to the UN Security Council, as the international community mulls fresh sanctions against Robert Mugabe’s government.