Addressing the media in Geneva, a United Nations spokesperson yesterday highlighted the challenging working environment in which UN humanitarian agencies are operating in within Syria and flagged that aid is... read more →
Marking the 2016 International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that the anguished women and men – parents, children, partners or friends – desperately... read more →
Marking the International Day against Nuclear Tests, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the entry into force of a multilateral treaty that bans all nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes,... read more →
As World Water Week kicked off yesterday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has highlighted that the opportunity cost from a lack of access to water disproportionately falls on women... read more →
With global youth unemployment expected to rise in 2016 for the first time in three years and the equally disturbing high levels of young people who work but still live... read more →
World leading charity Oxfam condemns the UK’s weapons support for Saudi Arabia, engaged in an aggressive war against Yemen. Oxfam said at a Geneva conference that the UK was violating the International... read more →
All the goals have been scored, finish lines crossed and champions crowned. The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics are officially in the books. The gaze of the sporting world now... read more →
Marking the second anniversary of the 2014 ceasefire which ended the most devastating round of hostilities in Gaza, heads of United Nations agencies there have called for a greater flow... read more →
In the first full, completed, cross-line delivery via road in August, inter-agency convoys have reached some 75,000 people in al-Waer in Syria’s Homs province with life-saving humanitarian assistance, the United... read more →
According to the Global Innovation Index 2016, the Islamic Republic of Iran, among 128 countries and economies, ranked second in the percentage of graduates in science & engineering. Iran also... read more →