The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said the issue of Aleppo is highly crucial and vital too. If a solution is not found by December, the city will not be there anymore, said Staffan de Mistura following a meeting with European Union (EU) foreign ministers in Luxembourg. Mistura added […]

Just ahead of the fifth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence the UN officials expressed concern over the continued violence in several parts of the country and also the displacement of people within the borders and outside it. In a released statement the UN Secretary-General Ben Ki-moon said the attacks on […]

The United Nations has allocated $15 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for the people fleeing Fallujah. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, said people fleeing Fallujah are in desperate need of assistance and they should be helped before the situation becomes a humanitarian […]

In 2015 the number of refugees and internally displaced figure rose to a record high to 65.3 million, revealed a report issued by the United Nations. Earlier to last year, the highest number was in 2014 after World War II. About 60 million people were displaced and the reasons were […]

United-Nations-mandated human rights inquiry released a report titled They Came To Destroy: ISIS Crimes Against The Yazidis and reveals the ISIS is committing genocide against Yazidis and this is something crimes against humanity. Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro, said genocide has occurred by […]

United Nations proposes on World No Tobacco Day to use plain packaging of tobacco products to help reduce demand for such products that kills about six million people a year. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged all the governments across the world to initiate plain packaging of tobacco products to […]