Building Community Within Diversity
Rome (July 18, 2019) — The President of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Gilbert F. Houngbo, will meet the Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic[…]
RENO, Nev. (July 18, 2016) — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee is to be commended for inscribing Nalanda Mahavihara (Nalanda University) Archaeological Site in[…]
NEW YORK (July 17, 2016) — The Committee of 100 on July 8 hosted a high level Global Chinese Philanthropy Symposium in Beijing convening one hundred leading Chinese philanthropists from[…]
First Report Examines Increasing Mismatch between Frameworks that Define the Existing Protection Regime and Contemporary Patterns of Displacement WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 25, 2015) — There is a growing consensus that[…]
NEW YORK (Aug. 28, 2014) — A new United Nations report offers concrete recommendations to reverse a rising trend of poverty, vulnerability and exclusion in Pacific Island countries. The report,[…]
PHNOM PENH (Aug. 7, 2014) — A United Nations-backed court has found the two most senior surviving leaders of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime guilty of crimes against humanity and[…]
United Nations News Service BANGKOK (Aug. 7, 2014) — With 743 million people in Asia and the Pacific still desperately poor, it is essential that growth be sustainable, inclusive and[…]
NEW YORK (July 22, 2014) — The United Nations expert on the situation of human rights in Cambodia today welcomed the agreement reached between the two main political parties in[…]
NEW YORK (June 13, 2014) — Stability and reconciliation can hardly be achieved in Thailand if human rights guarantees are neglected, a group of United Nations independent experts declared June[…]
NEW YORK (May 27, 2014) — The lack of consultative process on three draft laws has set a worrying precedent for future key legislation, according to the United Nations Special[…]
