UN receives 40 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in last quarter of 2017
Feb 23, 2018, at 02:43 pm
New York, Feb 23 (JEN): The United Nations has received 40 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse across its entities and implementing partners for the last three months of 2017, including 15 reported from peacekeeping operations, UN Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric announced on Thursday.
New UN report cites violations of rights to freedom of opinion and expression in South Sudan
Feb 23, 2018, at 02:40 pm
New York, Feb 23 (JEN): Undue restrictions on freedom of expression are having a “chilling effect” and “further shrinking the space for debate and dissent” in war-torn South Sudan, a new United Nations human rights report has revealed.
Feb 23, 2018, at 02:35 pm
New York, Feb 23 (JEN): A senior United Nations relief official is urging the international community to boost support for humanitarian efforts in crisis-gripped Central African Republic (CAR), where nearly half the population requires assistance.
Afghanistan: UN mission welcomes new penal code, urges measures to protect women from violence
Feb 23, 2018, at 02:31 pm
New York, Feb 23 (JEN): While welcoming the entry to force of a new Penal Code in Afghanistan as a having the “potential to trigger real change,” the United Nations mission in the country said on Thursday that it is concerned by the removal of the chapter penalizing violence against women.
Job creation around agriculture can spur youth employment in Africa – UN agency
Feb 23, 2018, at 02:28 pm
New York, Feb 23 (JEN): Agriculture will continue to generate employment in Africa over the coming decades, but businesses around farming, including processing, packaging, transportation, distribution, marketing and financial services, could also create jobs for young people, especially those in rural areas, a senior United Nations official said Thursday.
Canadian MP Ruby Sahota's India visit with PM Trudeau on last leg
Feb 23, 2018, at 12:51 am
Ottawa/New Delhi, Feb 22 (IBNS): Member of Parliament for Brampton North, Ruby Sahota, is on the last leg of her week-long India visit with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Donald Trump backs his theory of 'armed teachers' to prevent shootings in school
Feb 23, 2018, at 12:33 am
Washington, Feb 22 (IBNS): US President Donald Trump on Thursday backed his own proposed theory of 'armed teachers' in order to prevent shootings in schools.
Three ISIS militants killed, 1 wounded in US drone strike in Afghanistan
Feb 22, 2018, at 08:54 pm
Afghanistan, Feb 22 (IBNS) : At least three militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in a US drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
Five Afghan intelligence staff killed in Parwan attack
Feb 22, 2018, at 08:53 pm
Afghanistan, Feb 22 (IBNS) : At least five workers of the Afghan Intelligence Agency, National Directorate of Security (NDS), were killed in militant attack in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Terrorist attack kills at least five NDS members in Parwan
Feb 22, 2018, at 07:25 pm
Kabul, Feb 22 (IBNS): At least five National Directorate of Security (NDS) members have been killed in a terrorist attack in Afghanistan's Parwan province on Wednesday.
Pro-Khalistani accompanies Trudeau in India, invited for dinner tonight
Feb 22, 2018, at 04:49 pm
New Delhi/Ottawa, Feb 22 (IBNS): Embarrassing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pro-Khalistani and convicted attempted murderer Jaspal Atwal's accompaniment with the PM has been revealed, media reports said.
Florida shooting: Trump says armed teachers could prevent attacks
Feb 22, 2018, at 04:41 pm
Washington, Feb 22 (IBNS): US President Donald Trump has said that arming teachers could prevent gun-attacks like the one which took place in Florida recently, killing at least 17 people.
Quebec's top court upholds kirpan ban at provincial legislature
Feb 22, 2018, at 03:14 pm
Montreal, Feb 21 (IBNS): Quebec's top court on Feb 20 upheld kirpan ban at National Assembly, media reports said.
Sudan: After years of conflict, millions require aid; But is the world paying attention?
Feb 22, 2018, at 03:09 pm
New York, Feb 22 (JEN): If it were a new crisis, it would be one of the biggest in the world, but despite the fact that more than five million people need aid, Sudan is at risk of falling off international donors’ radar, a senior United Nations official has said.
Protect the rights of ‘Dreamers,’ UN human rights experts urge US Government
Feb 22, 2018, at 03:00 pm
New York, Feb 22 (JEN): With hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrived in the United States as children facing possible expulsion, a group of United Nations human rights experts has urged the country to take urgent steps to address their situation and ensure that their rights are protected.
At leaders forum in Belarus, deputy UN chief urges concrete action on Global Goals
Feb 22, 2018, at 02:53 pm
New York, Feb 22 (JEN): The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the most ambitious, universal, people-centred and planet-sensitive set of goals and targets ever conceived by the United Nations, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told a regional leaders forum in Belarus on Wednesday.
Feb 22, 2018, at 02:48 pm
New York, Feb 22 (JEN):The Principles outlined in the United Nations Charter remain the foundations of international relations and global harmony at a time when conflicts have come more complex, new threats and challenges have emerged and impacts of instability are felt far beyond their source, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday.
Feb 22, 2018, at 02:44 pm
New York, Feb 22 (JEN): A future with zero net global deforestation is possible with the right mix of policies, social action and political will, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said as a major international conference on sustainable forest management kicked off this week in Rome.
Feb 22, 2018, at 02:39 pm
New York, Feb 22 (JEN): Every two weeks, one of the world’s languages disappears, along with the human history and cultural heritage that accompanies it, the chief of the United Nations cultural agency warned on Wednesday, calling for greater efforts to preserve and promote mother languages and indigenous languages, to bolster inclusion, diversity and ultimately, sustainable development.
UN chief ‘deeply alarmed’ by escalating hostilities in Syria’s east Ghouta
Feb 22, 2018, at 02:26 pm
New York, Feb 22 (JEN): Deeply alarmed by the escalating violence in Syria’s east Ghouta, the United Nations has reiterated a call for an end to hostilities so that the sick and wounded can be immediately evacuated and humanitarian aid deliveries can reach those in need.
12 military personnel injured in a bus explosion in Sri Lanka
Feb 22, 2018, at 12:00 am
Colombo Feb 21 (IBNS): Twelve military personnel and seven civilians have been injured in an explosion inside a private bus in Diyatalawa, in the hill country of Sri Lanka this morning.
Canada: Patrick Brown's fate in Ontario PC leadership will be decided today
Feb 21, 2018, at 08:20 pm
Toronto, Feb 21 (IBNS): Resigned Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown's bid to run for the party leadership in the next election will be decided on Wednesday, media reports said.
Afghanistan: At least eight killed in Herat road accident
Feb 21, 2018, at 08:13 pm
Kabul, Feb 21 (IBNS): At least eight people have been reported dead in an accident in Afghanistan's Herat province.
Terror financing: FATF allows Pakistan three-month period to clean up act
Feb 21, 2018, at 06:23 pm
Islamabad, Feb 21 (IBNS): Pakistan has been granted a period of three months by Paris-based Financial Action Task Force to clean up its act pertaining to terror funding, reports said.
Canada: Most First nations' families do not have access to childhood development program
Feb 21, 2018, at 03:26 pm
Ottawa, Feb 20 (IBNS): The federal program designed in 2003 for early childhood development on First Nations was accessible only to 18 to 19 percent of eligible First Nations children across the country, media reports said.
Feb 21, 2018, at 03:11 pm
New York, Feb 21 (JEN): Iraqi civilians, driven from their homes in fear by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, Da’esh), are now starting to make their way back home after the terrorist group has been uprooted from its bastions in the country, the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported.
Feb 21, 2018, at 03:08 pm
New York, Feb 21 (JEN): Cautioning that the Tanganyika region in south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo could be engulfed by a humanitarian disaster of “extraordinary proportions,” the United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday urged the Government to ensure protection of civilians.
Feb 21, 2018, at 03:05 pm
New York, Feb 21 (JEN): After over a century of hostilities including 50 years of continued military occupation, Israelis and Palestinians are still no closer to peace, a United Nations special envoy said on Tuesday, warning that even as many in the region have lost hope for positive change, the enemies of peace are growing more confident by the day.
World is failing newborns; UNICEF says global mortality rates remain ‘alarmingly high’
Feb 21, 2018, at 02:58 pm
New York, Feb 21 (JEN): Newborns are dying at “alarmingly high” rates in countries that are poor, conflict-ridden or have weak institutions, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday in a new report, which reveals that babies born in these places are 50 times more likely to die in the first month of life than those born in some wealthier nations.