United Nations

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "looks forward to the endorsement of the new Government so that it can begin to address the many challenges facing the country". For Martin Kobler “the formation of the GNA is one important leap on...

The number of international migrants is actually at a faster growing rate than that of the world’s population: United Nations Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson has confirmed that there are 20 million refugees in the world and 244 million migrants,...

The Global Media Monitoring Project has presented at the United Nations its findings for 2015 on the presence of women in the media and on gender representation in an industry that prides itself for its inclusiveness and its forward-thinking. The results, elaborated from data...

While the whole world knows that the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 was the moment when humankind came closer to self-annihilation, not many people know just how close. Newly released documents, discussed last month at the UN, reveal that nuclear catastrophe...

Antonio Guterres, the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has addressed the results of a new report revealing that over ten million people around the world live in a situation of "limbo" finding themselves without a nationality, regardless of their country of birth and...

At the United Nations headquarters the Canadian François Crépeau, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants and the Equadorian Francisco Carrion Mena, Chair of the Committee of the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...

The 2015 South South Awards will celebrate the advancement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the global South. At the press preview, Executive Producer of the gala, introduces the production team responsible for creating the elegant atmosphere of the annual award ceremony, and Alexandru...

Peacekeeping Chief in Africa’s Central African Republic ordered to step down due to lack of competency in laying out stringent laws in his team regarding allegations of sexual abuse on young girls. United Nations officials promise to thoroughly investigate 

The UN post-2015 goals for sustainable development does not include a common language for all, as the League of Nations tried in vain in 1922.  Does the UN want the Anglophone Empire of Minds? What do the BRICS nations think?...

At the UN Conference in Addis Ababa, Countries agree on a bold set of strategies, which include the implementation of 17 goals and more than 100 concrete measures, to overhaul global finance practices and generate investments for tackling a range of economic,...