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NEWYORK - The Security Council today voted unanimously to split sanctions it has imposed on Al-Qaida and those against the Taliban, creating two lists of individuals and organizations so that they can be treated separately…

More civilians were killed in Afghanistan in May than in any other month since 2007, raising fears of a further escalation during the summer with serious humanitarian implications, according to Georgette Gagnon, the human…

15 Jun 2011 - The Peace Building Commission national steering committee, composed of Guinea-Bissau institutions and civil society representatives, and international partners today analyzed the country's Peace Consolidation…

The people who live in the arid lands, which occupy more than 40 per cent of our planet, are among the world’s poorest and most vulnerable to hunger. Frequently, they depend on land that is degraded and where productivity has…

KABUL - The number of countries collecting all their blood supplies from voluntary unpaid donors increased by more than 50 per cent between 2002 and 2008, according to new global data from the World Health Organization (WHO)…

13 June 2011 - September 21, 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of the International Day of Peace. As we begin today a 100-day countdown to the observance, we pay tribute to the many civil society activists who lent the…

May 2011 was the deadliest month for Afghan civilians since at least 2007, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said today. UNAMA documented 368 conflict-related civilian deaths in May and 593 civilian…

6 June 2011 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, today highlighted the contribution of seven Bissau-Guinean Police officers who served for one year with the United Nations…

KABUL - On World No Tobacco Day (31 May), the World Health Organization celebrates the successes of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the fight against the epidemic of tobacco use. Since it was adopted by the…

KABUL - The ninth Annual International Day of UN Peacekeepers is being commemorated today under the theme of 'Law. Order. Peace', focusing on efforts to strengthen rule of law. “In Afghanistan, peacekeeping day means…