Since the war began, more than 2 million Iraqis have fled their country. Watch an interview with Bashar Ja’afari, the Syrian ambassador to the U.N. about the situation, also …
R&E talks to Tony Hall, the former Ohio congressman who was also the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations humanitarian agencies in Rome, about what actions these agencies will be taking in regards to the Global Food Crisis.
A member of the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur was shot and killed in a refugee camp outside the North Darfur capital El Fasher on Wednesday. The unarmed Ugandan police officer, John Kennedy Okecha, is the first international peacekeeper to be killed since the joint mission took over from an African Union mission in December. Read more…
U.N. officials began to tour the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar on Monday, though some U.N. staffers still reported problems gaining access to the tightly controlled country. At least 78,000 …
R&E correspondent Anne-Marie Slaughter analyzes the quandary that the U.N. is in in regards to the Myanmar cyclone, and how the situation may force the R2P doctrine into effect in …
Dozens of Burmese expatriates rallied in the rain outside the United Nations on Friday, May 9, 2008, calling on the junta to allow aid into cyclone-ravaged Myanmar. Thirteen spoke to three of the protesters, some of whom have family trapped in the disaster zone. Watch the video:
A senior U.S diplomat in Myanmar said Wednesday that the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Nargis could reach 100,000, as disease outbreaks remain a threat and some aid groups face …
