Dancing in the streets of Juba has been replaced with fear of even stepping outside your own doorstep. One month ago, on 15 December 2013, fighting broke out between different fractions in South...
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India set to celebrate eradication of polio
India sets to celebrate a landmark achievement for global public health and the worldwide effort to eradicate polio. India, which once had the highest number of polio cases in the world, has not...
Africa: combating the stigma of conflict continent
Africa is often referred to as one big country, despite being a continent as big as China, India, the United States AND most of Europe put together. The continent is more than 30m sq. km, but this is...
The invisible climate refugees
In the future, climate change will force more and more people to leave their homes, but the term "climate refugees" is not an internationally recognized term. National legislation in most countries...
Mali + 1 more
Ladsous "Situation of Sudan is worrying"
Fresh from a two-week trip to three peacekeeping operations, Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations Hervé Ladsous shares his views on challenges facing the United Nations...
Putting Policies into Practice: UN Agencies & European Commission Plan Resilience in Food Crises
25 April, Brussels – A roundtable discussion, hosted and moderated this morning in the European Parliament by MEP Ricardo Cortés Lastra, urged international food assistance agencies and the EU to...
A beautiful island – its bloody past and potential future
The island of Sri Lanka, known for its stunning and diverse nature, but also for its ethnic violence, is now facing the challenge of overcoming its bloody past and focusing on development and...
Madagascar – the untold crisis
The former French colony in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Mozambique with a landmass 1.5 times that of Germany, but with a population of only 20 million, is now facing a huge humanitarian...
Colombia + 1 more
A refugee in their own country – the fate of the Colombian IDPs
The conflict between the Colombian government and armed Marxist guerillas that began in the mid 1960s have left over 3 million people as refugees in their own country. Not often mentioned in the...
In Haiti, Secretary-General vows support for quake victims
Touching down in the capital of Haiti, which was devastated by this week's catastrophic earthquake, today, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged the United Nations' support for the victims of...
Afghanistan + 3 more
"Solidarity in Action": UNHCR and ECHO cinema spot in Athens and Thessaloniki
An original cinema spot by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO), under the title "Solidarity in Action", is currently on cinema screens in...
Start of Lebanon tribunal 'decisive milestone' in pursuit of justice - Ban
Just over four years after former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others were killed in a terrorist attack in Beirut, the international tribunal set up to try the perpetrators began its...
UN joins Europe, World Bank to boost recovery of States after conflict, disaster
In an effort to more effectively help countries recover from conflicts and natural disasters, the United Nations, European Union and World Bank signed an agreement today to harmonize their collective...
Liban : L'envoyé de l'ONU appelle une nouvelle fois au désarmement des milices
L'Envoyé spécial du Secrétaire général pour la mise en œuvre de la résolution 1559 a déclaré aujourd'hui aux membres du Conseil de sécurité que l'exacerbation des tensions au Liban résultait de la...
Lebanon faces most serious crisis since civil war - UN envoy
The stalled political process in Lebanon, combined with the current violence on the streets and the 'defiant manoeuvres of militias,' is leaving the country struggling to function as a sovereign,...
SRSG for Iraq concludes two day visit to Brussels
Mr. de Mistura met with Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General, Mr. Robert Cooper, Director-General for Politico-Military Affairs at the Secretariat of the Council of the European Union...
When the rain fails - EU-funded FAO gardens help women through Niger's dry season
22 March 2007, Keita, Niger - "Water? Water is life," says Halima Mala, 56, as she gets ready to work her vegetable garden. 'It is the most important thing in life -- together with our health, and...