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UN Women – formally known as the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – was established in July 2010 by the General Assembly, merging four previous UN bodies dealing with women’s issues. “With the birth…

Emerging from decades of “denial of dignity”, Tunisians have high expectations that the country’s institutions will dramatically transform, and that their rights will be protected and respected – aspirations that will require…

Staro Gracko/Grackë e Vjetër, a village in Lipjan/Lipljan municipality in central Kosovo, is home to some 300 people, most of them Kosovo Serbs. The village has a cultural centre, a new school, a sports centre and a medical…

It has been ten years since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals, and while the international community has made progress in some areas, certain goals, in particular those focusing on universal primary education and…

United Nations peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have rescued six national police officers kidnapped by rebels without paying a ransom or firing a shot, relying on diplomacy and their superior…

News of the brutal murder of Ugandan human rights activist David Kato has reverberated around the world. David was beaten to death at his home outside of Kampala on 26 January. He had dedicated much of his working life to…

21 January 2011 - On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the death of late president Ibrahim Rugova, SRSG Lamberto Zannier paid tribute by visiting the Memorial Complex in the Velanija district of Pristina. On the…

Listen Good afternoon Mr. Zannier, SRSG Zannier. Thank you for being with us in Ophelia. Well it’s a pleasure as usual and Happy New Year to all of your listeners. Having just entered into the New Year, we wanted to hear your…

12 January 2011 - The UN Office at Nairobi (UNON), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) - offices headquartered or located in Nairobi - have…

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Mr. Lamberto Zannier expresses his solidarity with the people of Haiti and all those who suffered tragic losses a year ago. On 12 January 2010, Haiti suffered a…

UN News Centre 12 January 2011 –On the one-year anniversary of the earthquake which devastated Haiti, the United Nations today remembered the disaster’s victims in memorial events in Port-au-Prince, New York and elsewhere…

7 December 2010 – The number of people in Latin America and the Caribbean affected by extreme weather events, including high temperatures, forest fires, droughts, storms and floods grew from 5 million in the 1970s to more…