Politics

Photo:Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey (May 2016).

Photo:Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second left), UNFCCC's Christiana Figueres (left), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), and President François Hollande of France (right), celebrate historic adoption of Paris Agreement.

Photo:Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the press at UN Headquarters in New York.

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

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.