The SG’s travels in South- East Europe: Continuing his visit to South-East Europe, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the importance of dialogue and engagement across the region, highlighting the importance of the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
As the civil war continues to unfold in Syria, a new refugee crisis is emerging with massive flows of Syrians escaping the country for relative safety in Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon
International AIDS Conference: UN officials have called for a renewed commitment to tackle HIV/AIDS and end the epidemic once and for all, as over 20,000 delegates from all over the world gathered in the United States capital for the XIX International AIDS Conference.
Afghanistan's human rights commission spent 6 years collecting evidence for a massive report on wartime atrocities. Now, the Afghan Government is blocking the release of that report.
In what will probably be the lasting take-aways of the 2012 conference was a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommending that patients diagnosed with HIVstart taking anti-retroviral druges immediately upon diagnosis.