A major food crisis was averted in Niger, thanks to good donor support, massive humanitarian intervention, good collaboration between the Government and humanitarian partners, and better than expected rains in the country, the top United Nations humanitarian affairs official said today. Briefing correspondents at Headquarters today on her 14 to 16 October trip to […]
Also Holds Lengthy Exchange on Report on Sex Education; Hears UN Experts On Torture, Human Trafficking, Extreme Poverty, Physical and Mental Health Recent actions by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognizing a human right to water and sanitation were a ?breakthrough? and the challenge now was to turn that right into a […]
United States ? New Policy Says All Nations Can Use Space for ?Peaceful Purposes?, Meaning Space Can Be Used for National, Homeland Security Activities, Speaker Says Mounting concerns that advances in ballistic missile defence technology and recognition of the inherent instability ? possible arms race in space and cascading proliferation on Earth ? that could […]
Government Not Doing Enough to End ?Culture of Impunity?, He Says, Citing Aerial Bombardments, Attacks on United Nations, Humanitarian Staff With less than three months remaining before the referendum in the south, the whole of Sudan was entering a crucial period, Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told the Security Council today in […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Strasbourg, France, on Monday evening, 18 October. That night, the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, held a dinner in honour of the Secretary-General and Madam Ban. The next day, the Secretary-General met again with Mr. Jagland for a bilateral meeting. […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Strasbourg, France, on Monday evening, 18 October. That night, the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, held a dinner in honour of the Secretary-General and Madam Ban. The next day, the Secretary-General met again with Mr. Jagland for a bilateral meeting. […]
The following press statement was issued today by Security Council President Ruhakana Rugunda ( Uganda): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack against the United Nations operations centre in the western city of Herat, Afghanistan, on 23 October. While no casualties among the United Nations staff have been […]
The Head of the United Nations mission in Côte d’Ivoire — known as UNOCI — told reporters gathered at Headquarters today that the presidential elections would be held as scheduled on 31 October in the West African country. Addressing correspondents via a video link, Choi Young-jin, who is also the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Côte […]
Three UN Experts Address Migrant Issues; Others Speak on Extrajudicial Execution, Right to Development, Judicial Independence; Democratic People?s Republic of Korea United Nations experts charged with examining the human rights of migrants told the Third Committee today that over the past two years the trend towards the ?increasing criminalization? of irregular migration had continued, with […]
Mounting a successful campaign to counter, and finally eradicate, what many perceived to be the greatest contemporary security threat ? weapons of mass destruction ? depended on concrete enforcement and verification, delegates heard today as the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) addressed some of the obstacles to strengthening the key conventions prohibiting biological […]
