Tag: United Nations

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:10 UTC

  Three letters from Macri to Ban Ki-moon; possible summit with Obama in New York

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra met on Tuesday in New York with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and delivered three letters from president Mauricio Macri.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2016 - 07:34 UTC

  Venezuela could lose UN voting rights because of US$ 3m in arrears

  

  St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic are among nine countries that have lost their voting rights at the United Nations because of arrears in their annual contributions to the world body.

• Saturday, January 16th 2016 - 07:37 UTC

  Migration to foreign countries surged 41% in the last 15 years, says UN report

  

  The number of people who migrated to foreign countries surged by 41% in the last 15 years to reach 244 million in 2015, according to a United Nations study released this week. Of those people, 20 million are refugees.

• Thursday, January 7th 2016 - 09:13 UTC

  UN declares 2016 the International Year of Pulses

  

  The United Nations 68th General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses (IYP) and FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) has been nominated to facilitate the implementation of the Year in collaboration with Governments, relevant organizations, non-governmental organizations and all other relevant stakeholders.

• Friday, December 11th 2015 - 07:47 UTC

  Ban Ki-moon message on Human Rights Day

  

  Amid large-scale atrocities and widespread abuses across the world, Human Rights Day should rally more concerted global action to promote the timeless principles that we have collectively pledged to uphold.

• Friday, November 27th 2015 - 11:07 UTC

  Australia's BHP denies UN report on 'toxic' mine spill from collapsed dam in Brazil

  

  Australian mining giant BHP says mud spilled by the devastating collapse of a dam at a Brazilian mine is not toxic. On Thursday the UN said the dam burst at the Samarco mine unleashed a flood equivalent to “20,000 Olympic swimming pools of toxic mud”.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2015 - 07:03 UTC

  Macri names top UN official as Argentina's next Foreign Minister

  

  President-elect Mauricio Macri has tapped a top United Nations official to be Argentina's next foreign minister. Macri announced on his Facebook page on Tuesday that he picked Susana Malcorra, Cabinet chief for U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon since 2012.

• Saturday, November 21st 2015 - 08:30 UTC

  UN Security Council authorizes “all necessary measures” to fight ISIS

  

  The UN Security Council on Friday (Nov 20) authorized countries to “take all necessary measures” to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in a resolution that won unanimous backing a week after the Paris attacks.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2015 - 05:08 UTC

  UN honors journalists killed in the line of duty for 'reporting the truth'

  

  Marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon honoured journalists and media workers who were killed in the line of duty for merely ‘reporting the truth’ and is underscoring the importance of protecting their rights and ensuring they can report freely.

• Monday, October 26th 2015 - 05:15 UTC

  United Nations Day: “there is only one flag that belongs to all of us”

  

  October 24, was the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations Organization. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon message for such an occasion follows: National flags are a mark of pride and patriotism in every country around the world. But there is only one flag that belongs to all of us. That blue flag of the United Nations was a banner of hope for me growing up in wartime Korea.