Headlines
  • At least 750 people killed and another 3000 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
  • After US forces struck two rocket launchers on Iran's Larak Island, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran says to have attacked US bases in Jordan.
  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says that several Iranian fighters and civilians were killed and injured in the US attack on Larak Island.
  • Since resuming its naval blockade of Iran on July 14, US Central Command claimed to have diverted 83 commercial vessels, disabled three, and boarded two.
  • Guinea-Bissau held a referendum on Sunday to decide whether to grant the president additional authority.
  • At least eight people died, 237 have been rescued, and 23 are still missing after a passenger ferry capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday.
  • NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is intended to survey the universe on a never-before-seen scale while investigating far-off planets, exploding stars, and black holes.

Tag: United Nations

December 27, 2018

Building Confidence Among Local Community in...

The unprecedented scale of violence that started in 2012 led to widespread displacement and recurrence of human rights violations against civilians living in this area

December 26, 2018

DRC: Displaced by Conflict

Even after civil war ended in 2003, the nation has continued to experience waves of fighting – especially in the eastern parts of the country

December 20, 2018

Meet the Press

Staffan de Mistura (centre), United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, briefs press after consultations on Syria in Geneva

December 19, 2018

UN Deputy Secretary-General Poses for Group...

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (centre from row) poses for a group photo with 8th Students from St. Augustine Roman Catholic School at United Nations,New York

United Nations Human Rights Award

Gyumi from Tanzania, an activist for education rights for girls; the late human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir from Pakistan; Joênia Wapichana, Brazil’s first indigenous woman lawyer; and Front Line Defenders from Ireland, working to protect human rights defenders at risk

December 17, 2018

Anti-Migrant Protest in Belgium Turns Violent

Right-wing groups organized a massive protest Sunday in Belgium against the United Nation’s agreement on global migration

December 14, 2018

Mobile Court for Rape Victims in...

The UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) helped in refurbishing the courthouse within its existing resources and now, at the directive of the country’s Chief Justice, the court has been set up to try serious crimes committed inside and outside the Mission’s protections sites

December 12, 2018

Conference on Global Compact on Migration

Main gate of the venue for the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration. The Conference, taking place in Marrakech

December 11, 2018

UN: 20 Million Yemenis are Hungry,...

Lowcock, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said those 250,000 Yemenis facing “catastrophe” are overwhelmingly concentrated in four provinces “where the conflict is raging quite intensely” — Taiz, Saada, Hajja and Hodeida

UN: More Than 13 Million Nigerian...

A survey conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicates there’s been a marked rise of Nigerian children who are not attending school: from 10.5 million to 13.2 million – the highest in the world

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