A group of former combatants with the FARC rebel group in Colombia have been reflecting on five years of peace and community building in a locality called Tierra Grata, which translates as "pleasant land"
A pot boils on a wood fire in the open air (...)
A group of former combatants with the FARC rebel group in Colombia have been reflecting on five years of peace and community building in a locality called Tierra Grata, which translates as "pleasant land"
A pot boils on a wood fire in the open air (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ranked first in the evaluation of people's optimism for the future of their countries. The Ipsos survey "What worries the world" showed that 92 percent of Saudis see their country moving in the right direction, followed (...)
Colombia has sent an additional 2,000 troops and police to help contain a gang that has burned cars and threatened people as reprisal for the extradition of its leader to the US.
President Iván Duque said Dairo Antonio Úsuga, better known as (...)
ALICANTE — The Saudi football national team has started its preparations for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 with two preparatory camps at Alicante city in Spain during the upcoming months of June and September.
The preparations of the Green Falcons (...)
Ecuador's president has declared a state of emergency in three western provinces because of rising crime.
Guillermo Lasso tweeted that a curfew will be imposed and thousands of soldiers and police officers will be sent to Guayas, Manabí and (...)
The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) was named on Tuesday as the winner of this year's UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, following the international jury's recommendation.
The BAJ was formed in 1995 as a non-governmental (...)
The explosive growth of extractive operations around the world often plays out on indigenous people's lands without their consent, causing irreparable harm to their livelihoods, cultures, languages and lives, speakers told the Permanent Forum on (...)
A former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, has been extradited to the United States to face charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.
Hernández, who governed the Central American nation until January, was put on board a US Drug (...)
The Darién Gap, a dangerous route that links South and North America, has long been used by migrants trekking north to the United States, in search of a better life, or simply fleeing violence at home. As well as extreme physical challenges, they (...)
Former Colombia soccer captain Freddy Rincón has died after being involved in a car crash in Cali, the hospital treating him said in a statement.
The 55-year-old Rincón was admitted to hospital on Monday following a car accident in the early hours (...)
Colombia's dynamic peace process — which saw fresh strides with the holding of a largely peaceful parliamentary election last month — will succeed or fail based on efforts to halt the deadly violence faced by former combatants, social leaders and (...)
Olivia Rodrigo, Silk Sonic and jazz musician Jon Batiste have shared the top honors at the 64th Grammy Awards.
Batiste's uplifting soul record We Are won album of the year, while Rodrigo won best new artist and best pop album.
Silk Sonic's soul (...)
At the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, Member States adopted a plan of action to tackle disinformation, at the request of Ukraine and with widespread — but not universal — support.
Officially sponsored by Ukraine, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, (...)
Women and children increasingly bear the brunt of climate change, which deepens the inequalities and vulnerabilities they already face, such as poverty, violence, lack of opportunities and basic human rights. Yet women are not victims; they are (...)
Credible reports indicate that Russian armed forces have used cluster munitions in populated areas of Ukraine, at least two dozen times since they invaded on 24 February, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.
"For more than one month (...)
The UN chief has called for $100 million each year in assessed contributions from Member States, to fund the world body's peacebuilding activities, describing such an investment as "a bargain" compared with the punitive costs of (...)
In a new achievement, the International Medical Center (IMC), has been included in Newsweek's yearly list of best hospitals in the world according to the fourth yearly ranking of Newsweek magazine and the Statista network for statistical studies, (...)
Investing in women's economic empowerment yields enormous dividends for peace and prosperity, the head of UN Women told the Security Council on Tuesday, stressing that countries where women are economically marginalized and shut out of the workforce (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), will host, virtually, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 8, 2022, the meeting of the General Secretariat of the Global Harmonization Working Party (GHWP) and leaders of (...)
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) called on Thursday, for Canada to fully address long-standing gender-based discrimination in its Indian Act, which continues to affect tens of thousands of descendants of (...)
Camilo Vergara is one of hundreds of young Colombians benefiting from a UN program aimed at pulling victims of the country's former conflict out of poverty, and into stable employment.
Camilo Andrey Vergara was born in 1989 in a rural area of (...)
Women living in Amazon River communities now have increased access to breast cancer screening along even its most remote banks, thanks to two new mammography units installed on Brazilian navy ships.
Procured by the UN-backed International Atomic (...)
The UN Mission in Colombia was the target of an attack on Thursday, when three vehicles that were part of a joint expedition traveling through a remote area, were approached by armed individuals, although nobody was ultimately injured during the (...)
Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions - "hunger hotspots", where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at risk, UN agencies highlighted (...)
