GreenBiz.com (blog)This year, Davos took on climate change but also started to dig into business sustainability as a primary issue. The World Economic Forum has joined with the United Nations to reframe the urgency of…
The HinduThe United Nations Security Council has passed a unanimous resolution on the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria — the decision flowing from a consensus that the government and the armed opposition would be…
BloombergThe United Nations’ report on human rights in North Korea is a sickening document. It should give China’s leaders pause. Supporting the despicable regime of Kim Jong Un is not in their interests. North Korea’s…
Telegraph.co.ukNorth Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has been warned that he could face prosecution for crimes against humanity after a United Nations inquiry accused him of some of the worst human rights abuses since the Second…
Sydney Morning HeraldStories from inside North Korea. Mr Kim Kwang-il, 48, spent more than two years at a prison in North Korea where he was tortured, starved and witnessed the deaths of fellow inmates, a…
Los Angeles TimesA massive asteroid the length of three football fields will make its closest approach to Earth tonight, and you can watch it fly by live, right here. Beginning at 6 p.m. PST, the…
Voice of AmericaSEOUL — A new United Nations report accuses North Korea of “unspeakable atrocities,” many of which amount to crimes against humanity. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea is…
ReutersGENEVA Feb 17(Reuters) – United Nations human rights investigators on Monday issued a damning report cataloguing massive human rights violations in North Korea that they said amount to crimes of humanity which should be brought…
New York TimesGENEVA — The United Nations mediator for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, wrapped up the second round of peace talks here on Saturday without breaking a longstanding deadlock or setting a date for a third…
BusinessweekSyrian government and opposition representatives ended a second round of peace talks without agreeing on a date for the next meeting, United Nations mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said. Negotiations ended after the President Bashar al-Assad’s regime…
Los Angeles TimesTARTUS, Syria — In a setback for a United Nations-brokered aid effort, a convoy carrying humanitarian assistance to civilians trapped in the center of the Syrian city of Homs on Saturday was met…
CNN(CNN) — As multi-day talks in Switzerland involving Syria’s government and the opposition come to a close, the United Nations envoy to Syria said they were at least a start, and the two sides had…
BernamaUNITED NATIONS, Jan 25 (Bernama) — The United Nations refugee agency said Friday over 65,000 people have fled Fallujah and Ramadi cities in central Iraq’s Anbar province over the past week, bringing the total number…
BusinessweekSyrian Deputy Prime Minister Walid al-Muallem, center, arrives at the United Nations Office in Geneva on Jan. 24, 2014. Photographer: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images. Syria’s government and opposition have agreed to hold face-to-face talks…
CNN(CNN) — It was a mistake for the United Nations to rescind an invitation to Iran to participate in peace talks on Syria this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday in Moscow. He…
USA TODAYAfter issuing an invitation to Iran to join the Syrian peace talks, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has withdrawn that invitation amid mounting concerns over Iran’s participation in the negotiations. (Jan. 20). Loading……
BBC NewsThe US has urged the UN to drop its invitation to Iran to join peace talks on Syria, due to begin in two days. American officials accused Iran of failing to back the aim…
USA TODAYFormer United Nations war crimes prosecutors say photographs and other evidence smuggled out of Syria show the “systematic killing” of about 11,000 detainees by President Bashar Assad’s security forces. The allegation, contained in a…
Wall Street JournalThe United Nations rescinded its invitation to Iran to attend a Syria peace conference this week. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia had demanded the invitation be retracted and the Syrian opposition threatened to…
Washington PostISTANBUL — The fate of a long-awaited Syria peace conference due to be held in Switzerland this week hung in the balance Monday after the United Nations unexpectedly invited Iran to attend, prompting a…
Fox NewsThe United Nations nuclear watchdog reported Monday that Iran had halted its most sensitive uranium enrichment work as part of an interim deal struck with six world powers last November. A report from the…
BusinessweekUnited Nations atomic inspectors verified that Iran froze its most sensitive nuclear work, complying with demands made by world powers in a deal that will lift some of the sanctions hobbling the Persian Gulf nation….
Washington PostKABUL — At least 14 people, including Afghans and foreigners, were killed Friday evening in a commando-style attack by Taliban insurgents on a popular restaurant in the Afghan capital, local police and United Nations…
The Globe and MailThe dressing down came in the unlikeliest of places, a stuffy United Nations conference room before an obscure human rights committee. After decades of fending off accusations that its policies and culture…
Los Angeles TimesROME — In their toughest and most public questioning to date about sexual abuse of children by the clergy, senior Vatican officials came under heavy criticism Thursday from a United Nations committee over…
New York TimesKUWAIT — Western nations, Arab states and others pledged more than $2.4 billion on Wednesday to help civilians who are suffering because of the civil war in Syria. The pledges came as Ban…
Los Angeles TimesBEIRUT – More than 200,000 Syrians are living in areas besieged by pro-government or rebel forces and lacking regular supplies of food and other essentials, the United Nations’ humanitarian chief said Wednesday at…
USA TODAYTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The first batch of Syrian poison gas precursor chemicals was loaded onto a Danish cargo ship and taken out of the war-torn country Tuesday — a week later than…
Wall Street JournalThe United Nations sent out invitations Monday for the latest peace conference on Syria and Iran wasn’t on the list, despite its role as a major backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime….
Sydney Morning HeraldGeneva: Syria is likely to miss its year-end deadline for getting its most deadly chemical weapons out of the country, according to the United Nations and the international monitoring group overseeing the program….
Houston ChronicleJUBA, South Sudan (AP) — More than 120,000 people have been displaced by continuing violence in South Sudan, the United Nations said, as African leaders met Friday to find a political solution to a…
Times of IndiaJUBA: The United Nations on Thursday said that it was speeding reinforcements to its beleaguered peacekeeping force in South Sudan, where ferocious fighting was raging in the oil-producing north. “We are working on…
Voice of AmericaThe United Nations says it hopes to put peacekeeping reinforcements in South Sudan within 48 hours, as government forces battled rebels Thursday for control of the Upper Nile town of Malakal. U.N. envoy…
ABC OnlineThe United Nations will urgently redeploy troops from African missions to South Sudan, where it says 10 days of fighting has left thousands of people dead and forced another 80,000 to leave their homes….
Voice of AmericaThe United Nations is sending 5,500 additional peacekeepers to South Sudan, where a U.N. official reported thousands of people have likely been killed since fighting began there last week. The U.N. Security Council…
USA TODAYBERLIN (AP) — The United Nations says it has discovered a mass grave containing about 75 bodies in South Sudan. U.N.’s human rights chief says the mass grave was found in Bentiu in the…
Washington PostUNITED NATIONS — The United Nations says that India’s deputy consul general, who is accused of lying on a visa form about how much she paid her housekeeper, has been registered as a member…
ABC NewsThe United Nations says that India’s deputy consul general, who is accused of lying on a visa form about how much she paid her housekeeper, has been registered as a member of the country’s…
CNN(CNN) — Up to 40,000 civilians have taken refuge in United Nations bases in South Sudan, the organization said Sunday, as they seek shelter from a spiraling conflict in the world’s newest nation. After a…
ABC OnlineUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on donor nations to ramp up aid to the typhoon-battered Philippines as it grapples with a funding shortfall on the long road to recovery. “We must not…
