Photo: This photo from November 2014 shows IOM providing transportation assistance in South Sudan, moving vulnerable refugees on a UNHCR helicopter.
Politics
25 July 2016
In the first six months of this year, 5,166 civilians were either killed or maimed in Afghanistan, a half-year record since counting began in 2009, a United Nations report published today shows.
Photo:Dignity factory workers producing shirts for overseas clients, in Accra, Ghana.
KABUL, 25 July 2016
FAIRFIELD, CT, July 22, 2016
Although the United States has the world’s largest economy, it ranks ninth among 19 of the world’s wealthiest nations on child wellbeing, according to Save the Children’s newest annual Child Prosperity Index.
23 July 2016
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and the head of the UN Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA), Tadamichi Yamamoto, have strongly condemned today's attack on a peaceful demonstration in Kabul that killed at least 59 people and injured some 245 others.
Photo: Refugees from South Sudan are transported from Elego town to the Numanzi Transit Center where meals and temporary accommodation are provided by UNHCR in Adjumani, northern Uganda.
22 July 2016
21 July 2016
The United Nations deputy chief today stressed the importance of partnerships and coherent policy and action in tackling global challenges, including inequalities, conflicts, terrorism and climate change, and achieving the new international development goals.
Photo:Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) and Martin Chungong, Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union exchange copies of the signed agreement.