YANGON, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Human Rights Envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana claimed on Sunday that his six-day Myanmar mission witnessed positive impact in the country, but adding that serious challenges remain and be addressed. Quintana, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar, told a....Read Full Article ...
Failure by the United Nations Security Council to deliver global condemnation of Syria gives President Bashar al-Assad room to continue his 11-month crackdown ...
The inability of the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution to end the violence in Syria, gives the government of President Bashar al-Assad licen...
The opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) on Sunday strongly condemned the veto by Russia and China of a United Nations Security Council resolution to end t...
SOFIA - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday the veto by Russia and China of a UN resolution that would have urged the Syrian president to give...
In Syria prospects of ending the crisis look bleak, with the UN Security Council struggling to agree on an appropriate response. The Assad regime?s brutal crackdown, including shelling of central city Homs, shows no sign...
In Iraq, the official withdrawal of the last U.S. combat troops, nearly nine years after the invasion, was quickly followed by a political crisis. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for the country?s top Sunni politician,...
The Democratic Republic of Congo?s presidential and parliamentary vote went ahead on 28-30 November, after a campaign marred by violence and amid allegations of rigging and mismanagement. Political rallies were banned in the wake of...
Deadly clashes between government forces and the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) broke out in the troubled southern Philippines in October.
In Sudan a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) offensive in Blue Nile state, and renewed clashes in Southern Kordofan between the SAF and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, fuelled fears of a return to civil war.