‘There is a genocide going on today,’ one activist said, criticizing recommendations to send a police force deemed by some to be woefully insufficient
A record number of world leaders gathered at the United Nations on Friday to sign a landmark agreement to limit global warming. From the United Nations, VOA’s Margaret Besheer reports there is huge international pressure for leaders to start implementing the deal.
French President Francois Hollande is first to sign document; Secretary of State John Kerry hails as powerful agreement that seeks to limit global temperature rise, lays out road map for reducing greenhouse emissions
Success at Monday’s talks requires ‘difficult compromises from all sides, as well as determination to reach an agreement,’ he says
Powerful group questions contributing billions of taxpayer dollars to peacekeeping budget if misconduct is not sufficiently penalized and curtailed
Eight governments have put forward candidates since nomination process officially opened in December; for first time, half of them are women
Accusations are the most recent in a series of rape and money-for-sex allegations against UN and non-UN troops, most based in Africa
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to work with Burundi on options for deploying security force following year of politically charged violence
Despite violations to cease-fire, recent progress means formation of transitional government expected in next two weeks, one official said Thursday
UN humanitarian chief says aid has reached nearly 400,000 people but millions more are in need
Iranian government has written to UN defending its recent ballistic missile launch, which was criticized by US and some other nations
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed says face-to-face talks in Kuwait will be based on UN Security Council resolutions, which call for resolving year-old conflict through political negotiations
Designation — a rare move for US — does not legally require any particular action, but carries certain moral force; ‘naming crimes is important, but what is essential is to stop them,’ says Secretary of State Kerry
International community has seen previous attempts at negotiations fail, but this time, there seems to be the smallest glimmer of hope
A UN resolution adopted in July 'calls upon' Iran not to 'undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons'
US Ambassador Samantha Power says Tehran’s missile launches last week were 'dangerous, destabilizing and provocative' and 'undermine the prospect for peace' in the region
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants to repatriate entire police or military units when there is credible evidence of sexual exploitation or abuse
‘Decisive and bold action’ needed to stem exploitation, says Ban Ki-moon, adding that allegations undermine trust between UN and people it is sent to protect
Supplies of food and medicine desperately low, while children scavenge bombed-out buildings for wooden furniture to burn for heating and cooking, aid worker says
Calling such behavior an ‘abomination,’ UN official says agency is examining preventive and investigative measures; UN, however, has no authority to prosecute peacekeepers
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