UNITED NATIONS, April 20 — Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in “extreme and immediate danger” as worsening violence advances and threatens to “unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur,” top UN officials warned the Security Council on Friday.
NEW YORK, April 19 — The United States on Thursday effectively stopped the United Nations from recognising a Palestinian state by casting a veto in the Security Council to deny Palestinians full membership of the world body.
NEW YORK, April 17 — A United Nations Security Council committee considering an application by the Palestinian Authority to become a full UN member "was unable to make a unanimous recommendation" on whether it met the criteria, according to the committee report seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
REMBAU, March 24 — Malaysia is disappointed that the United Nations Security Council (UN) has once again failed to make a ceasefire resolution in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.
RAFAH, March 24 — United Nations (UN) chief Antonio Guterres, who was on a visit to the doorstep of Gaza, said on Saturday that the world has seen enough of the war’s horrors and appealed for a ceasefire to allow in more aid, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
BRUSSELS, March 22 — Increasing water scarcity can fuel conflicts around the world, the United Nations has warned.
GAZA, March 18 — Gaza's northern city of Jabalia received its first aid delivery in approximately four months.
ISTANBUL, Feb 21 — Israel has denied access to more than half of the missions planned by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and its humanitarian partners to deliver aid in the northern Gaza Strip since the start of the year, the agency said Tuesday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 — More than half of Gaza’s population — well over a million people — are crammed into Rafah, staring death in the face, according to United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and the Cabinet members today signed a special postcard, addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres.
LONDON, Jan 6 — More than 90,000 people, about 4 per cent of the population in Gaza, are dead, wounded or missing, a human rights monitor said Friday.
WASHINGTON, Jan 3 — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged maximum restraint Tuesday from all parties following the assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh Arouri in Lebanon.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 — Egypt welcomes the establishment of a United Nations (UN) mechanism for accelerating the provision of humanitarian relief consignments to Gaza, to address the dire situation in the besieged enclave.
NEW YORK, Dec 21 — The head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday issued a dire warning that the absence of safe drinking water in Gaza could lead to the tragic loss of "many more children" to disease.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 — Malaysia is very upset with and opposes the actions of the United States (US) to veto the United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 — The illegal and inhumane occupation by Israel of Palestinian land must end, and the vicious cycle of violence on Paletinians must stop to pave way for efforts to support the establishment of a free and independent state of Palestine.
ROME, Nov 6 — The so-called hidden costs of global food systems amount to around US$10 trillion a year, around 10 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a Monday report.
LONDON/ WASHINGTON, Nov 5 — Countries moved a step closer on Saturday to getting a fund off the ground to help poor states damaged by climate disasters, despite reservations from developing nations and the United States.
GENEVA, Nov 3 — A group of independent United Nations experts called on Thursday for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinians there who are at “grave risk of genocide”.
MOSCOW, Oct 9 — More than 123,000 Palestinians have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict escalates, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said on Sunday, Sputnik reported .
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