#United Nations (UN)

United Nations aid operations in the Gaza Strip continued on Tuesday, a day after a senior UN official said humanitarian efforts had ground to a halt because new Israeli evacuation ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar denied on Sunday receiving an invite to meet with the UN and said he would not accept even if there was. Tatar said that that ...

The government on Friday took a tough line against accusations from the UN that it was carrying out migrant pushbacks within the buffer zone, calling the statements unhelpful in resolving ...

Sudan’s agriculture minister said there is no famine in the country and cast doubt on U.N.-backed data that 755,000 are experiencing catastrophic hunger, rejecting the idea of aid ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin is on Wednesday expected to submit her report on Cyprus to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as her tenure as envoy comes to an end. Her ...

The head of the UN Security Council on Monday said that UN Secretary-General personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin has only found there is no common ground for a Cyprus solution. ...

Cyprus’ permanent mission to the United Nations has confirmed the protection of human rights is among the island’s foreign policy priorities. The comments were made as Nicosia presented its ...

“We are aware of the challenges but we remain confident and optimistic” said Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, referring to Cyprus discussions of UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for ...

Claims and counterclaims over jurisdiction of Green Line, but why now? It has now been over a month that a group dubbed the ‘buffer zone migrants’ have been stranded within ...

In the third article looking at the Cyprus problem from a diplomatic viewpoint, Andreas Pirishis examines the long-standing hostility towards the US and UK During the first years of its ...

The personal envoy of the UN secretary-general, Maria Angela Holguin described both of Wednesday’s meetings with President Nikos Christodoulides and later with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar as “constructive”. “...

The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy to Cyprus María Ángela Holguín, will be on her third official visit to Cyprus between May 7 to 14, it emerged on Friday. She ...

A senior Palestinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Palestinian prisoner associations said on Thursday, blaming Israel for his death. The associations ...

Israel says aid is moving into Gaza more quickly after international pressure to increase access, but the amount is disputed and the United Nations says it is still much less ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, ...

The United Nations used a new land route on Tuesday to deliver food to northern Gaza for the first time in three weeks as global pressure grows on Israel to ...

The head of the European Commission said on Friday a maritime aid corridor could start operating between Cyprus and Gaza this weekend, part of accelerating Western efforts to relieve the ...

Nearly 3,000 pregnant women in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, risk being cut off from essential healthcare if the current gang war-driven paralysis of the city continues, the United Nations said on ...

One in ten women live in extreme poverty globally, the United Nations (UN) reported on Friday. “International Women’s Day is a day that encourages us to recognise the injustices ...

A U.N. expert on Friday criticised U.S. efforts to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza, such as plans for a temporary port and recent air drops, which he said ...

Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations that amount to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said in a report on Thursday. The report called ...

A United Nations-sponsored conference on Afghanistan aimed at improving dialogue with the country’s Taliban rulers has ended after the administration’s representatives failed to show up. The Taliban-led foreign ...

Greece will exhaust every possibility, so that there can be positive developments in the Cyprus issue, Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said on Monday, following a meeting he had with ...

The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria Holguin will hold meetings in Ankara on Thursday, to discuss the Cyprus problem, following her meetings with the Greek government. Holguin is set ...