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Condemning Sunday’s attack in Ramallah against a Palestinian political figure, United Nations (UN) Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov has called for a thorough investigation into…
Warning of unprecedented shifts in population in urban areas of the Asia and Pacific – already home to 17 of the world’s megacities, with populations exceeding 10 million – the…
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan decreased 19 per cent in 2015, compared to the previous year, according to the latest Afghanistan Opium Survey figures released Wednesday by the Afghan Ministry…
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has denounced the five simultaneous suicide attacks in Baga Sola sous-prefecture in Chad Sunday, which left scores of civilians dead or injured. In a statement released by…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed Wednesday the decision by the United States Government to release 6,000 inmates from federal penitentiaries. It is an effort to ease overcrowding in prisons…
A group of independent United Nations human rights experts has reiterated their call on Pakistan to reinstate a moratorium on the death penalty and investigate cases where uncertain age determination…