Photo: Children fill their cups at a water point built by UNICEF at Kanyosha III primary school in Bujumbura, Burundi.
Politics
7 June 2016
A partnership of leading international organizations, including the United Nations, has announced the launch of a first-ever global standard to measure food loss and waste while at the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) 2016 Summit currently underway in Copenhagen, Denmark.
7 June 2016
The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today appointed the Chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) and leading fashion designer Kenneth Cole as a UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador.
7 June 2016
A United Nations human rights expert today expressed dismay at the lengthy sentences imposed last week on the leadership of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT).
Photo:A child wanders in the refugee camp of Assaga, near Diffa, Niger. More than 135 displacement sites have been noted along the border with Nigeria, where there has been increased acts of violence conducted by Boko Haram.
4 June 2016
An operation conducted by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Border Force (ABF) has resulted in the seizure of around 140 kilograms of methamphetamine and four people being arrested for drug importation offences.
Photo:Muhammad Ali (centre), UN Messengers of Peace and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer, at a 2004 ceremony to mark the International Day of Peace at UN Headquarters.
June 02, 2016
pecial agents from the FBI returned a recovered Charles Darwin letter to the Smithsonian Institution Archives, the FBI Washington Field Office announced.