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Twenty-five years ago, the explosion at Chernobyl cast a radioactive cloud over Europe and a shadow around the world. Today, the tragedy at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continues to unfold, raising popular…

26 April 2011 - In recent months, a new hip and edgy sound has taken the Addis Ababa airwaves by storm. Afro-FM 105.3 is a primarily English radio station whose format blends entertainment with serious news and analysis on…

The Security Council today has taken an historic decision. Resolution 1973 affirms, clearly and unequivocally, the international community’s determination to fulfil its responsibility to protect civilians from violence…

GENEVA – On this day, I salute the women of the Middle East and North Africa, along with women all over the world who are taking great risks to stand up and fight for dignity, justice and human rights for themselves and for…

The Secretary-General message on International Women's Day One hundred years ago, when the world first commemorated International Women’s Day, gender equality and women’s empowerment were largely radical ideas. On this…

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…