The United Nations has warned that more than 3.5 million survivors of Pakistan’s massive floods do not have access to clean drinking water. “Millions of people are still faced with the dilemma of drinking contaminated water, putting them at risk of diarrheal diseases,” DPA quoted Karen Allen, deputy country representative of UNICEF in Pakistan, as [...]

Iranian officials have announced the country is to set a medical state of emergency on its borders with Pakistan, launching a vaccination and health check on immigrants. Head of the Iranian Health Ministry’s Center for Disease Control, Mohammad-Mehdi Gouya, told ISNA that it has been three weeks since the Iranian Health Ministry issued a health [...]

The United Nations urges Israel to put an end to its restrictive measures imposed on the impoverished Gaza Strip for more than three years. In a joint study released Thursday, the World Food Program and the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the Israeli measures have caused painful reality to Gaza population. “This [...]

Iran complains to UN officials about US threats of military attack on the country over its nuclear program, vowing a response to any such strike. In letters to the heads of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the General Assembly that circulated Wednesday, Iran’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Eshaq Alehabib, slammed the US [...]

The United Nations has warned that water-borne diseases in Pakistan’s flood-stricken regions are seriously threatening the lives of three-and-a-half million children. A spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday that millions of Pakistani children are at risk of disease. “Up to 3.5 million children are at high [...]

The United Nations has continued to rush relief to the flood victims in Pakistan as the people are striving to survive in the flood-stricken country. The UN World Food Program (WFP) had distributed food to more than 40,000 people in four districts and plans to expand its operations to other districts shortly. “We have reached [...]

The United Nations has renewed its call for an international investigation of the Israeli deadly attack against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid convoy. A UN diplomat said that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon repeated the call in his meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday. Ban has been urging Israel to agree to [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has pledged nearly $14 million to help in the reconstruction of Palestinian territories. The donation came in response to a United Nations request for international assistance for the region. Lula has signed a bill allocating the funds for the Gaza Strip, AP reported. The Brazilian president signed the [...]

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Ali Larijani has slammed the extensive influence wielded by Western powers over international bodies such as the UN. During his speech at the 3rd World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Geneva on Monday, Larijani said the United Nations has failed to maintain global peace and justice. “The founding [...]

The United Nations has renewed its appeal to Tel Aviv to withdraw its forces from the occupied village of Ghajar, which lies on the Lebanese border with Syria and Israel. “Israel’s withdrawal is a matter of high importance to us. We will work toward achieving that,” Neeraj Singh, a UN spokesman in Lebanon, said on [...]

Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi has slammed the recent UN sanctions against Iran, calling the Security Council an “anti-security” entity. “This approach showed that the United Nations does not exist and that the Security Council is an ‘anti-security’ council,” Seddiqi said in his sermon. He vowed that the “Iranian nation will not [...]

Israel has called on the United Nations to postpone plans for an independent international probe of its last month attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy. Speaking after his Monday meeting with UN chief Ban Ki-moon in New York, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he told Ban that the world body should suspend plans to [...]

Senior Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi has called for making revisions to the structures of the United Nations and its Security Council. “The UNSC, as the most important decision-making body on global issues, has unfortunately turned into a tool for implementing US foreign policies in the world,” said Boroujerdi, who heads the Majlis National Security and [...]

Almost 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations humanitarian office says. Some 300,000 people have left their homes but are still inside Kyrgyzstan and as many as 100,000 people are thought to have taken refuge in neighboring Uzbekistan, the United Nations humanitarian office spokeswoman, Elisabeth Byrs, said on [...]

The United Nations warns that Israel’s easing of West Bank blockades is not sufficient and in many areas it has not created any improvement. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday that the easing of roadblocks has been concentrated in central parts of the West [...]

Iran’s interior minister has called on all countries which bang the drum for human rights to decry the crimes committed by the Zionist regime of Israel. “The (UN) Security Council, the United Nations and all countries which claim to be human rights sympathizers should reach out to the Palestinian people and condemn Israeli crimes”, said [...]

France has urged the immediate launch of an inquiry into the “disproportionate” Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound aid convoy, Freedom Flotilla. The Israeli navy attacked the aid Flotilla in pre-dawn attacks on Monday, which killed at least 20 civilians and wounded dozens of others. French President Nicolas Sarkozy slammed the deadly raid as a ‘predictable [...]

After the United Nations ratified a resolution calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moves to condemn the treaty. The attack came after all 189 signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) reached a deal on Friday for the establishment of a Middle East without nukes. The 28-page statement by the [...]

The Palestinian Authority is to call on the United Nations to recognize the Palestinian state, “marginalizing” the US so-called peace efforts, an Israeli paper claims. The Israeli government is becoming increasingly fearful that the PA pushes through a new related UN Security Council Resolution, The Jerusalem Post reported. The resolution, which is yet to be [...]

The United Nations says it has failed to accommodate thousands of Palestinian children in UN-run schools since the 2008-2009 Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. Palestinians in the populated enclave have been suffering a crippling Israeli blockade over the past three years which has deprived some 1.5 million Gazans from food, fuel and other necessities. [...]