Syria: UNICEF plans to reach 2.6 million children with winter supplies and cash assistance
Dec 09, 2015, at 03:38 pm
New York, Dec 9 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Warning of harsh winter conditions looming for more than eight million Syrian children living inside the war-ravaged country or as refugees around the region and beyond, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced a package of assistance for 2.6 million Syrian children, including cash assistance, in addition to ongoing humanitarian programmes.
UN agency urges Jordan to allow 12,000 desperate Syrian refugees stranded at border
Dec 09, 2015, at 03:29 pm
New York, Dec 9 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Amid worsening conditions inside Syria, the United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday expressed grave concern for nearly 12,000 people trying to flee the country who are now stranded in remote areas along the north eastern Jordanian border, and urged the Government of Jordan to allow them entry, prioritizing admission for the most vulnerable.
Amid violence in Syria: UN deputy relief chief urges greater civilian protection
Dec 08, 2015, at 04:11 pm
New York, Dec 8 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Against the backdrop of devastating attacks on health facilities resulting in the deaths of countless health workers along with their patients in Syria, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Kyung-wha Kang on Monday called for greater protection and assistance for Syrians caught up in the country’s four-year conflict.
Security Council calls for eradicating ISIL safe havens in Syria and Iraq
Nov 21, 2015, at 02:27 pm
New York, Nov 21 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The United Nations Security Council on Friday evening called on all countries that can do so to take the war on terrorism to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq and destroy its safe haven, warning that the group intends to mount further terror attacks like those that devastated Paris and Beirut last week.
Security Council calls for eradicating ISIL safe havens in Syria and Iraq
Nov 21, 2015, at 02:27 pm
New York, Nov 21 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The United Nations Security Council on Friday evening called on all countries that can do so to take the war on terrorism to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq and destroy its safe haven, warning that the group intends to mount further terror attacks like those that devastated Paris and Beirut last week.
France launches fresh airstrikes on IS strongholds in Syria
Nov 17, 2015, at 05:56 pm
Paris/Washington, Nov 17 (IBNS) France has launched fresh airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria as the Pentagon chief urged European countries to join a military coalition to defeat Islamic Statein the wake of the Paris attacks, The Guardian reports.
Paris attacks were organised from Syria?
Nov 16, 2015, at 09:56 pm
Paris, Nov 16 (IBNS) French PM Manuel Valls has said that the militant attacks carried out in French capital Paris on Friday were organised from Syria, media reports said.
ISIS orders the closure of women's clinic in Syria's Raqqa
Oct 30, 2015, at 12:00 am
Damascus, Oct 29 (IBNS) The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday ordered the closure of all women clinic in the Raqqa to stop male gynecologist from treating female patients.
Cholera spreading in Iraq, suspected case reported in Syria: WHO
Oct 28, 2015, at 02:46 pm
New York, Oct 28 (IBNS): The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it would start vaccine treatments for cholera beginning this weekend to prevent further outbreaks in Iraq, where the disease has now been confirmed in 15 out of 18 governorates, while the agency also reported a suspected case was also found in northern Syria.
UN and partners deliver critical relief supplies to besieged areas of Syria
Oct 20, 2015, at 03:43 pm
New York, Oct 20 (IBNS): A joint United Nations, International Red Cross (ICRC) and Syrian Arab Red Crescent operation delivered on Sunday essential medical and humanitarian supplies to 30,000 people in the Fouah and Kefrayah in Idlib governorate and Zabadani and Madaya in the Rural Damascus governorate, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Russia fires 26 missiles on IS in Syria
Oct 08, 2015, at 05:03 am
Moscow/Damascus, Oct 7 (IBNS) Russian navy on Wednesday, launched 26 missiles from 4 warships on Islamic State captured Syria, confirmed Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
European leaders call to halt atrocities and find political solution to crisis in Syria
Oct 03, 2015, at 02:09 pm
New York, Oct 3 (IBNS): On the fifth day of the United Nations General Assembly’s debate, European countries took to the podium delivering remarks focused on the importance of diplomacy, the need to address the refugee and migrant crisis affecting their continent, and the urgency with which the war in Syria needs to be brought to end.
New Zealand deplores lack of Security Council action on Syria, calls for limiting veto
Oct 02, 2015, at 04:02 pm
New York, Oct 2 (IBNS): The Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, took to the podium of the General Assembly on Thursday to deplore the lack of action by the Security Council, the United Nations body with legally binding powers, over its failure to end the bloodbath in Syria, blaming in particular the paralyzing power of veto held by the body’s five permanent members.
UN: Turkish Prime Minister urges action to end Syrian crisis
Oct 01, 2015, at 02:44 pm
New York, Oct 1 (IBNS): Recalling the heart-rending story of the little boy whose lifeless body washed up on a beach in Turkey last month, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Wednesday urged the United Nations to take swift action to address the deepening crisis in Syria and to protect the millions of people "fleeing war and tyranny."
Japan announces major boost in assistance for Syrian and Iraqi refugees
Sep 30, 2015, at 02:16 pm
New York, Sept 30 (IBNS): In his address to the annual high-level meeting of the General Assembly, Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, vowed to enhance his country's assistance to refugees and internally displaced persons from Syria and Iraq.
Syria: UN health agency urges donors to assist countries ‘doing the heavy lifting’
Sep 25, 2015, at 03:04 pm
New York, Sept 25 (IBNS) Crippling funding shortfalls are hindering the ability of emergency teams to meet the escalating health needs of the millions of Syrians displaced by civil war and donors need to step up support to countries in the region doing the “heavy lifting,†warned the World Health Organization (WHO).
UN envoy hopes intra-Syrian thematic discussions will 'set the stage' for end to conflict
Sep 23, 2015, at 02:50 pm
New York, Sept 23 (IBNS) Returning from consultations with Syrian interlocutors in Damascus and Istanbul, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria announced on Tuesday that he met with facilitators appointed by the Secretary-General to head working groups designed to find a political solution to the five-year conflict.
Simple act of playing represents grave danger for children in Syria: UNICEF
Sep 17, 2015, at 01:56 pm
New York, Sept 17 (IBNS): The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned in the strongest terms mortar attacks on civilian areas of Aleppo, Syria, which reportedly killed at least 19 children on Tuesday, including six in a UNICEF-supported child friendly space.
Syria: Ban names panel to probe accountability for chemical weapons use
Sep 16, 2015, at 02:20 pm
New York, Sept 16 (IBNS): Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Virginia Gamba of Argentina to head the independent three-member panel that will lead the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) tasked with identifying those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Russia is attempting to set up base in Syria: US
Sep 15, 2015, at 10:56 pm
Washington, Sept 15 (IBNS): The US has said that Russian military is trying to set up a forward operating base in western Syria.
UN envoy unveils plan to get 1 million Syrian children in school in 21 days
Sep 11, 2015, at 03:17 pm
New York, Sept 11 (IBNS): With more than 4 million children having left Syria – half of them for Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey – in a "crisis of biblical proportions," the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education on Wednesday said $250 million could get 1 million refugee children in school by the time the UN General Assembly meets later this month.
UN envoy says it is now time to have 'a real discussion' to end Syrian conflict
Sep 09, 2015, at 03:17 pm
New York, Sep 9 (IBNS): The United Nations Special Envoy on Syria on Tuesday said the images of the drowned Syrian toddler wearing a red shirt and blue shorts lying face down on a Turkish beach should be a wake-up call to the world that "there is no more time for long political processes," and it is now time to have "a real discussion" to end the conflict.
UN urges Europe to admit 200,000 refugees from Syria, Iraq and other war zones
Sep 05, 2015, at 03:51 pm
New York, Sep 5 (IBNS): Declaring that Europe is facing "a moment of truth" with hundreds of thousands of people risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea, the head of the United Nations refugee agency on Friday urged the European Union (EU) to admit up to 200,000 asylum-seekers fleeing conflict zones like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Security Council condemns use of sexual violence in Iraq and Syria
Aug 29, 2015, at 02:57 pm
New York, Aug 29 (IBNS): The United Nations Security Council on Friday condemned the use of sexual violence, in particular sexual enslavement and sexual violence “related to or resulting from forced marriage, committee, including as a tactic of war, in Syria and Iraq,†and urged all parties to armed conflict to take all feasible steps to protect civilians from such “abhorrent†acts.
UNICEF demands that water not be used to achieve 'military and political gains' in Syria
Aug 27, 2015, at 03:36 pm
New York, Aug 27 (IBNS) Amid the unremitting brutality of the war in Syria and a scorching summer heat wave, there is increasing evidence that parties to the conflict are using water to achieve military and political gains, warned the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Ban calls for restraint as violations jeopardize ceasefire between Israel and Syria
Aug 22, 2015, at 03:52 pm
New York, Aug 22 (IBNS): Deeply concerned over the serious violations of the Disengagement of Forces Agreement between Israel and Syria, United Nations Secretary-General ban Ki-moon on Friday called on all involved to exercise maximum restraint to prevent any further escalation in an already tense regional environment.
UNESCO chief deplores killing of two leading scholars of Syrian antiquities
Aug 20, 2015, at 02:23 pm
New York, Aug 20 (IBNS): Within one week, the Syrian cultural heritage community suffered two immense blows with the murder of archaeologist Khaled Assad in Palmyra, and the killing of the Assistant Director of laboratories at the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, Qasem Abdullah Yehiya, in Damascus, according to the United Nations.
UN rights experts welcome release of Syrian human rights defenders
Aug 15, 2015, at 02:35 pm
New York, Aug 15 (IBNS): Welcoming recent release of three human rights defenders from Syrian Government custody, the head of a United Nations-appointed human rights panel on Friday urged the authorities to grant an independent organization regular access to those allegedly detained.
White House: Ban says US leadership, support vital to host of global issues
Aug 05, 2015, at 01:51 pm
New York, Aug 5 (IBNS): The United Nations counts on the leadership and support of the United States on a range of critical issues, from climate change and sustainable development to resolving crises such as those in Syria and Yemen, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, following a meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama.
In ISIL-controlled territory, 8 million civilians living in ‘state of fear’: UN expert
Aug 01, 2015, at 02:21 pm
New York, Aug 1 (IBNS): The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has engaged in widespread and systematic human rights violations of the most serious kinds in Syria and Iraq, brutally forcing some 8 million people to “assimilate, flee or face death,†according to a United Nations expert.