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The high-level meeting marked the conclusion of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20), a process launched in the early 2000s to guide global cooperation on digital development, access...
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Speaking has UN News During a visit to U.N. headquarters in New York, Gwyn Lewis, acting resident and U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Myanmar, said global attention had shifted elsewhere even...
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Current estimates place the total damage and losses at between $8 billion and $15 billion, or almost a quarter of Jamaica's gross domestic product (GDP), said Dennis Zulu, United Nations...
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Speaking to the media outside the council chambers in New York, he highlighted the simmering tensions across Yemen and “spectacular new developments» in its eastern governorates which “increase the pressure”....
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Giving an update at the daily midday press briefing, UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq told correspondents that the "peacekeepers" were killed and nine others injured on Saturday when UNISFAThe Washington...
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Heads of state, civil society and private sector leaders will discuss the most pressing issues related to corruption and how to combat it at a meeting UN conference against corruption...
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Volker Türk said the “heinous” shootings targeting a Hannukah celebration on Bondi Beach revealed once again that “anti-Semitism is real and heinous”. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the killings...
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Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, provided an update during his quarterly briefing on Council Resolution 2334 (2016) which calls on Israel to cease its...
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Presentation of oral updates to the Geneva-based committee Human Rights CouncilHigh Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the situation in Venezuela had not improved since his last briefing in...
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The United Nations Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents creates, for the first time, a single document that can be used for trains, trucks and planes, allowing logistical changes to be...
