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Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, has reported.

It wasn't an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers - from Times Square to East River - following a route that traced the shape of "UN@80".

More than a decade after Asian and Pacific nations launched a campaign to ensure every life is counted, millions across the region still remain "invisible" - born, living, and dying without formal recognition.

The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday.

ATLANTA, USA, Jun 26 (IPS) - Chest thumping "Mission Accomplished" claims by President Trump that he ordered the world's biggest conventional bombs to be dropped on a sleeping nation of 90 million people, were premature. To top it off he bragged that ...

When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East.

BENGALURU, India, Jun 25 (IPS) - It has been 33 years since peacebuilding was formally recognized within the United Nations system, by the then UN Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali, who defined it as a long-term structural work aimed at preventing the ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jun 25 (IPS) - Poland's embattled Prime Minister Donald Tusk emerged bruised but still standing after his government survived a parliamentary vote of confidence on 11 June. He'd called the vote, which he won by 243 to 210, just . ...

When Sila, a young woman from Idlib in Syria, was three years-old, she woke up to missiles falling around her, forcing her and her family to flee their home.

The UN Secretary-General has warned that the world today is failing to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes, calling for a renewed global commitment to the Responsibility to Protect - a principle adopted two decades ago that remains, in his .. ...