19 July 2016
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) today expressed concern about the so-called “NGO Transparency law” in Israel, saying it would
Politics
Photo:Children use large, plastic buckets to collect drinking water from a nearby water point, in the Fayda informal tented settlement, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
Photo:Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman addresses UN Security Council.
Photo:Two detainees behind the bars of the prison walls at the National Penitentiary of Haiti, 10 May 2012.
Photo:Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Hailemariam Dessalegn, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, on the sidelines of the twenty-seventh African Union Summit, taking place in Kigali, Rwanda, 10-18 July 2016.
Photo: Voting in the second round for the senatorial and parliamentary elections and the first round for a new president in Haiti’s capital Port au Prince, 25 October 2015.
Photo:President of the General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft, opens an informal meeting of the plenary to hear a briefing on the situation in Syria.
Photo:On 14 July 2016, UNICEF using eight tankers, delivered 100,000 litres of water to IDPs in Juba, South Sudan.
15 July 2016
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is following “closely and with concern the fast-moving developments” in Turkey.
According to media reports, a faction of military forces in Turkey attempted a coup on Friday night.
15 July 2016
Senior officials from across the United Nations family today condemned the deadly attack in Nice, France, calling for stepped up efforts to fight terrorism and violent extremism.