CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief has fired the head of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee has given the U.S. a series of failing grades on human...
MARIA CHENG, Associated Press Medical Writer RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response is officially winding...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A U.N. conference has agreed to reform global finance to spur development and to channel funds to fight worldwide poverty. The agreement reached...
(The Washington Post) – In announcing the good news from the latest global HIV/AIDS report that the virus is being beaten back more quickly than expected, United...
(Salon) – Last week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon capitulated to pressure from the Obama administration and removed Israel’s armed forces from a child rights...
GERARD NZOHABONA, Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Civic groups in Burundi on Tuesday rejected a U.N. facilitator of talks between the government and those opposed...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Members of a U.N. peacekeeping mission engaged in “transactional sex” with more than 225 Haitian women who said...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic said Thursday it has launched an investigation into an allegation...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s mishandling of child sexual abuse claims against French soldiers has human rights staffers fearing for their...
ROME (AP) — The number of hungry people around the world has dropped to 795 million from over a billion a quarter-century ago despite natural...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Four civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed on Tuesday when two...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo is planning to go ahead and take action against a rebel group...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week dropped to its lowest total...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — There is so much freedom in Uganda that it’s nearly anarchy, the country’s president joked, stepping carefully around...
(Telegraph) – It may be better known for banking than bohemia, but Switzerland is the happiest place in the world to live, according to the...
FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy pressed the EU on Wednesday to devise robust steps to stop the deadly tide of migrants crossing the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In 1991, I watched Somalia disintegrate. It was not just the breakup of a state, as we were to...
(UN.org) – Officials welcomed the unveiling at the world body’s New York headquarters of a permanent memorial to the victims of slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade...
(Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday Islamic State forces may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq as well as war crimes...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At a private working lunch for the five most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council, the...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women is lamenting that a girl born today...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press BAGA SOLA, Chad (AP) — Kellou Abakar knew she was in trouble as the contractions started not long after an Islamic extremist...
GENEVA (VOA News) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council for what he calls its “obsession with Israel.” In...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist It is important for all people of African descent throughout the world to be ever conscious and...
