United Nations News
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Jerusalem -
After hours of denials all day, Gaza and Israel have agreed to a 12-hour cease-fire. No one knows if it will work if it starts as schedule Saturday morning.
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Geneva -
The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to launch an investigation of possible Israeli war crimes committed during its 16-day war against Hamas in Gaza.
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Gaza -
Nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's 16-day war on Gaza. In one of the latest attacks, at least 17 people sheltering in a United Nations school in northern Gaza were killed by Israeli shelling.
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AIDS could be a manageable condition by 2030, according to a new report made by the United Nations (U.N.). This is based on drops both in the global levels of new HIV infection cases and AIDS-related fatalities.
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New York -
A UN official estimates that since the crisis in Ukraine began more than two months ago, 423 people have lost their lives in fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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According to a new report endorsed by five Nobel Prize-winning economists, the decades-long global war on drugs has failed and it's time to shift the focus from mass incarceration to public health and human rights.
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Abidjan -
A decade-long embargo on diamonds from the Ivory Coast could be partially lifted this week, several United Nations diplomats said Friday.
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Honduras continues to have the world's highest homicide rate, according to a recent United Nations report, followed by four other countries in Latin America.
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The United Nations has said that the Syrian regimes military blockade of the Palestinian Yarmouk camp, situated on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, could see to the starvation of up to 20,000 of its inhabitants.
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The United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has strongly condemned the use of torture in Syria by both the regime and some armed opposition groups.
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Paris -
France has withdrawn from the 20th anniversary memorial of the Rwandan genocide in response to Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s statements about French complicity in the genocide that killed over 800,000.
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Geneva -
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest document discusses the dangers of a warming world. The document also suggests opportunities for adaptation in the face of environmental changes.
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In June of 2012 the United Nations established the International Day of Happiness to be celebrated on March 20th. Music plays an important part in helping achieve the goals of global happiness called for on this day.
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Gaza -
As Israelis and Palestinians engage in yet another round of combat, the United Nations gave Palestinian groups a hand in their efforts to recruit young men into the conflict.
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Kinshasa -
Congolese forces moved into the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), backed up by United Nations troops, to attack the Hutu rebels that have claimed the Virunga region of the country as their base of operations.
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Amid ongoing political turmoil in Ukraine, and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering massive military exercises Wednesday, the Obama Administration warns Russia against any military intervention that would violate Ukrainian sovereignty.
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London -
Agenda 21 is a controversial agreement signed by virtually every country in the world in 1992. Over the last twenty years, parts of the Agenda have slowly been voluntarily implemented in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Bangui -
The continuing violence between the Christian majority and Muslims in the Central African Republic (CAR) has torn the country apart. With the continued exodus of thousands of Muslims from the country, there are now fears of a market collapse.
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New York -
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as special envoy for cities and climate change on Friday.
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New York -
The international war being waged inside of Syria has created a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions. Estimates of numbers killed in the war since March 2011 range from 94,000 to 130,000.
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London -
A special summit on dementia, convened by the G8, has taken place in London. During the summit a range of initiatives have been announced aimed at tackling the disease.
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Most people reading this article can go to their kitchen for a glass of water, or use the bathroom without a second thought. But what about the 2.5 billion people in our world today without sanitation or a source of clean drinking water?
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On November 13, a moving Facebook note about Typhoon Haiyan and the current situation in the Philippines was posted. It is currently going viral and is entitled, 'I Need To Tell You.'
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New York -
The United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has reported that greenhouse gases are on a continuous upward trend due to a global failure to meet pledges of reduced carbon emissions.
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Rwanda has breached international law by forcibly returning a refugee that had fled to Uganda and was under protection of the United Nations, critics charged this week.
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New York -
For the 22nd straight year, the United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted to condemn the United States' 53-year economic embargo against the small Caribbean island nation of Cuba.
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Oslo -
Norway has denied a request by the United States to receive and destroy a bulk of Syria's chemical weapons because it does not have the capabilities to complete the task by the mid-2014 deadline set forth by the US and Russia.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has tried to reassure Saudi Arabia that Washington shares Riyadh's goals of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran and bringing to an end the ongoing war raging in Syria.
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Sacramento -
Juan Mendez, the United Nation's lead torture investigator, says that he is worried about increased use of solitary confinement in United States' prisons and wants access to California lockups.
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The report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, Ben Emmerson, asks for the US to share information about attacks coordinated by the CIA and explain its position on the legal standing of the attacks.
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Protesters wearing masks of the world leaders in front of the national stadium during the last day of the 19th conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19) in Warsaw, November 22, 2013
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Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, speaks to journalists regarding the latest allegations of use of chemical weapons in his country and the possibility of military action against the Syrian government being contemplated by several permanent members of the Security Council
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The international United Nations campaign Nothing But Nets made a stop in Toronto to help bring awareness to residents that malaria is a serious global issue.
They urged people to donate money to buy a net for those refugees living in African camps.
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Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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UN: The Security Council Chamber.
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UN Headquarters in New York City's Turtle Bay.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks on "Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights" in recognition of International Human Rights Day at the United Nations Office at Geneva
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The United Nations Security Council observes a minute of silence upon the news of the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela, at the U.N. headquarters in New York December 5, 2013
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) and students of the New Explorations into Science, Mathematics and Technology
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United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) maintaining law and order in the world's youngest nation.
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Meme of Prime Minister Netanyahu's cartoon bomb
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Interventions, a life in war and peace by Kofi Annan, published by The Penguin Press, NY (2012).
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The United Nations Headquarters in New York City, NY.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with actor Samuel L. Jackson (centre) and Mr. Jackson's wife, LaTanya Richardson,
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Equatorial Guinea Saluted in New York City - Victor Mooney reads the proclamation to H.E. Anatolio Ndong Mba, Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations for Equatorial Guinea, as his wife looks on.
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The United Nations Security Council Chamber
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Closing Ceremony at the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris
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The international United Nations campaign Nothing But Nets made a stop in Toronto to help bring awareness to residents that malaria is a serious global issue.
They urged people to donate money to buy a net for those refugees living in African camps.
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