Sources: UN
The United Nations adopts the ""Pact for the Future"", aiming for multilateral cooperative work towards peace and security, global governance, climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and more. 2024-09-22
A UN official says that the Arakan Army has begun indiscriminately attacking the Muslim Rohingya minority in Rakhine State after capturing much of the state, forcing thousands of people to flee. The rebel group is reportedly "rounding up groups" of Rohingya men and shelling Rohingya villages. 2024-08-28
The United Nations passes a resolution by a vote of 153–10, with 23 abstentions, demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war in Gaza, the unconditional and immediate release of all hostages, and for both sides to comply with the law of war. 2023-12-12
UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien accuses Houthi militia of blocking and diverting deliveries of aid to Taiz city where some 200,000 people are living under siege. 2015-11-24
A rocket and shelling attack in Kidal, northern Mali kills three people, including a UN peacekeeper. 2015-03-8
United Nations negotiators produce an early draft on an agreement to be put to a conference on climate change in Paris in December. 2015-02-13
Hundreds of students gather outside the United Nations building in Tehran, Iran, to protest against government suppression of students in Bahrain. 2011-04-26
The United Nations Special Representative for Somalia, Augustine Mahinga, says the situation in the country remains "dire" and the AMISOM mission is "underfunded". 2010-09-16
A group of armed men vandalises a United Nations summer camp in the Gaza Strip, in a second attack since May. Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemn the attack. 2010-06-28
Actor Don Cheadle is appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations environment agency during a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day. 2010-06-5