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Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General has appealed for calm in the escalating dispute over the Falkland Islands, as Argentina took their c...
The sheer scale of the attacks now being launched by the Syrian State on rebels and civilians alike has bought about howls of anguish from across the Arab World and beyond.
Dear Secretary-General, I write to follow up my letter of June 2nd 2011 on the subject of the United Nations Panel of Experts' report on accountability issues in Sri Lanka.
No prizes for guessing the right answer. China and Russia are the culprits. China is wavering and may change its stance in the coming weeks. But Moscow is still determined to fight on. It has recently defended the shipment of arms to the Damascus regime which is committing crimes against humanity in violation of Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
How many more thousands have to die before the President Barack Obama takes action to stop the massacres? Syria is the most pressing and most urgent crisis to face the democratic Super Powers.
Those expecting UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon to use his second term as a period of quiet consolidation, before beginning the slow process of winding down, were in for a surprise as the New Year began.
North Korea may be threatening as it is equally mysterious to outsiders, but with the old guard there has always been logic behind their every move, which essentially are aimed at the regime's survival. But as the North Korean's leader period of lying in State come to an end, what next?
Funding for poor countries and the "emissions gap" are among the topics on the table for government ministers getting down to negotiations on tackling...
Wise counsel such as this was largely ignored in the run up to the war in Iraq, and such were the consequences that few thought such blundering would ever occur again.
There has been a 39% rise in violent incidents in Afghanistan so far this year compared with the same period last year, a UN report says. In the pa...
Sir Brian Urquhart, one of the oldest surviving senior UN staff members, reminded us recently that a former Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjold, had once said
Jamie Oliver is taking his food campaigns to a global level by urging the secretary general of the United Nations to help end the world obesity crisis...
There are lessons to be learned once the proverbial dust settles and lessons that will not take away from the righteous celebrations now taking place across Libya.
When President Bashar al Assad was elected (unopposed) in 2000, many in the West heralded this as progress.
It is obvious to everyone that Bashar al Assad and his henchmen are not interested in human rights or reforms. They are totally focused on power, money and survival of the regime even if this means a civil war and a blood bath.
We failed to prevent a massacre in Sri Lanka. We must not fail to seek justice for it.
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- South Sudan has raised the flag of its new nation for the first time, as thousands of South Sudanese citizens and dozens of inter...
