» China hails human rights progress amid calls to close detention camps
06/11/18 21:05 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
China has pledged to eradicate poverty in rural areas by 2020 during a scheduled United Nations review of the country’s human rights record, amid concerns over the alleged arbitrary detention of religious and ethnic minorities there.

» Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants kick off a global migration search movement
06/11/18 20:51 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
As mothers searching for the whereabouts of their migrant children amassed last weekend in Mexico City, a historic nine countries were represented, as well as the United Nations International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Mi...

» ‘Time is of the essence’ for refugees on Greek islands – UN agency
06/11/18 17:41 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
Authorities in Greece must take urgent steps to address the “abhorrent” humanitarian situation for around 11,000 asylum-seekers on the islands of Samos and Lesvos, the UN refugee agency warned on Tuesday.

» Taliban-led violence during recent Afghan polls leaves record high numbers of civilians dead – UN
06/11/18 17:22 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
The Taliban’s campaign of violence and intimidation during last month’s parliamentary elections in Afghanistan was the deadliest for civilians in years, a report by the United Nations mission in the country, UNAMA, revealed on Tuesday.

» ISIL’s ‘legacy of terror’ in Iraq: UN verifies over 200 mass graves
06/11/18 17:04 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
Investigators have uncovered more than 200 mass graves containing thousands of bodies in areas of Iraq formerly controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh), according to a United Nations human rights report out o...

» ‘Warp speed’ technology must be ‘force for good’ UN chief tells web leaders
05/11/18 22:32 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
Technological advances are happening “at a warp speed,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday in Lisbon, Portugal, as a major three-day Web Summit got underway.

» UN recorded 64 new allegations of sexual exploitation or abuse in the past three months
05/11/18 21:22 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
Across its various offices, agencies, and partner organisations implementing its programmes, the United Nations received 64 new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), involving 77 victims, between July and September, UN Spok...

» FROM THE FIELD: Green shoots of peace in South Sudan
05/11/18 20:02 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
Some 5,000 seedlings of trees indigenous to South Sudan are being distributed to schools, sports centres and other public meeting places by the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, UNMISS, as part of its commitment to countering clima...

» Prosecution of Paraguay judges over peasant ‘massacre’ ruling could undermine rule of law: UN expert
05/11/18 18:30 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
The planned prosecution of Supreme Court judges who acquitted 11 peasant farmers jailed over the death of police officers during a violent land eviction in 2012, known as the Curuguaty Massacre”, could undermine the rule of law, a UN exp...

» Ending use of chemical weapons in Syria: ‘still work to be done’, says UN disarmament chief
05/11/18 17:43 from UN News Centre - Top Stories
As inspections and investigations continue into several reported instances of chemical weapons use against civilians in Syria, the United Nations High Representative on Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, told the Security Council on M...