UN

Various United Nations agencies and rights groups continue to urge the government of Sudan to provide leniency for a woman jailed to death sentence for stabbing her husband to death....

Four new cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by government scientists there, prompting the UN health agency to...

Freedom Day was marked a day early in New York City with South African diplomats expressing their appreciation for the support the international community played in defeating Apartheid and for their...

South Africa on Monday expressed its opposition to air strikes being conducted in Syria. “The South African government has noted with grave concern the airstrikes conducted by the United Kingdom,...

PRETORIA- At least one civilian was killed and dozens of United Nations peacekeepers, civilians and militia fighters were injured during an operation against armed groups in Central African Republic’s capital...

PRETORIA - Islamist rebels are suspected of killing at least 11 civilians in an attack in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said on Wednesday, adding to some 1,000 civilians...

The Minister of Women in the Presidency, Bathabile Dlamini, says the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and UN member states have an obligation to advance gender equality and...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutteres says progress for women and girls means changing the unequal power dynamics that underpin discrimination and violence. Gutteres was addressing the opening of the 62nd session...

The world has reached a tipping point in the struggle for women’s equality and empowerment. That was among the messages delivered at the official commemoration of International Women’s Day at...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday asked to increase the UN Peace building Fund to half a billion US dollars per year. "Failure to make progress on financing peacebuilding...