The assembly began with a focus of banishing the gamut of global dilemmas and quelling the rapid-rate multiplicity of crises.

Roughly 1.8 billion youths, between the ages of 10 and 24, live in the world today – and nearly half (880 million) are females. Of that amount, 700 million were married before their 18th birthday. About 250 million girls were placed in marriages before they turned 15, 39,000 girls are forced to marry...

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Ebola this Thursday and the U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power warns the world: "Anything short of our full collective commitment could have grave and destabilizing public health, humanitarian, economic, and security consequences which could reach far beyond the borders of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.” (Leggi...

A Special Representative’s presentation at the UN on Monday highlighted the responsibilities of the states in children protection from wars and social crises. The appalling multiplication of crises affecting children since the beginning of 2014 is creating unprecedented challenges that overshadow progress. Among other nations, Italy is committed to act

Hidden In Plain Sight: A statistical Analysis of Violence against Women and Children is a new report by The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) that highlights violence against children in 190 countries. It reveals alarming global figures and data of the devastating extent of different types of physical, sexual and emotional...

The UN campaign against the centuries-old use of Female Genital Mutilation goes on while more and more people refuse the weak argument of tradition. A girl’s in-tact hymen increases her value when she is offered to a prospective husband and it opens up to child-marriage. Religion is not the only...

While the importance of freedom of the press was being discussed at a recent UNESCO conference held at the UN Headquarters,  a group of countries were working towards the elimination of this topic from being one of the Millennium Goals

The United Nations celebrated the anniversary of the Rome Statute, which established the formation of the International Criminal Court. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated: "This is a day for all of us to underscore a crucial point: justice matters." For Italy's Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi, "this is an occasion to renew our commitment against...

Secretary General participates in a UN-Missions event regarding the death penalty and organized by the Italian Mission, in preparation for the September General Assembly vote (Leggilo in italiano)

As it gets closer to the presidential elections in Burundi, tensions rise, says UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonovic, after a three-day trip to assess the country's situation