India is likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to maternal health as one such death is being reported every 10 minutes.

India recorded around 57,000 maternal deaths in 2010, w

A UN-backed war crimes court handed Liberia's former president Charles Taylor a 50-year jail term on Wednesday for arming rebels in Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds".

Taylor, 64, was convic

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday hoped that India would find a way to build and strengthen partnerships of common ground with its neighbours and encouraged it to do 'even more' in advancing pea

Syria has said it was ready to facilitate UN monitors, but stressed that a majority of them should be from 'neutral countries' like BRICS, which also includes India.

Syria also stressed that while it

‘Honour’ killings, ‘dowry deaths’ and the lynching of women branded as witches persist in India, partly due to such practices being socially sanctioned and with police often not even treating such mur

The UN rights chief warned on Friday against reprisals on Sri Lankan activists, noting ‘threats and intimidation’ carried out by Colombo in the run-up to a contested war crimes probe vote.

The UN Hum

India should support a US-backed resolution holding Sri Lanka accountable for war crimes and strongly condemn Colombo, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa wrote to the Prime Minister Wednesday.

Her letter

Iran has significantly stepped-up uranium enrichment at a secret facility, the UN atomic watchdog has said, emphasising that Tehran needs to address ‘serious concerns’ about ‘possible military dimensi

UN nuclear inspectors arrived in Iran on Monday in the latest push to hold key talks with Iranian officials about how far the country's controversial nuclear programme has come.

The trip is the secon

The Arab League said it agreed on Sunday to open contacts with Syria's opposition and to ask the United Nations to form a joint peacekeeping force to the unrest-swept nation in moves swiftly rejected