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Like other countries, Bangladesh will observe the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on May 29 (Thursday) with ...
If properly implemented and enforced, a renewed UNSC arms embargo would not obstruct security sector reform. Instead, it ...
The UN on Friday warned of further deterioration in the human rights situation in South Sudan amid an uptick in hostilities, ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern on Friday over the escalating hostilities in South Sudan since February, warning that the hostilities could further worsen ...
Two long-running conflicts in Africa are facing very different prospects right now. In Democratic Republic of Congo, a war between the state and the M23 rebels — backed by Rwanda — may be on the verge ...
The United Nations rights chief urged on Friday for warring sides in South Sudan to pull back from the brink, warning that ...
The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain ...
Chuol, like many others, said he fled airstrikes in Nasir and sought refuge in Burbeiye, but was forced to flee again after ...
UN peacekeepers have helped end brutal civil wars, reduced dangerous tensions and allowed historic elections. But their lifesaving work is at risk.
BERLIN (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told countries that the world body’s peacekeeping operation is “only as strong as member states’ commitment to it” as he pleaded with them Tuesday ...