DSG Travels: The Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, travels today to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he will lead the UN delegation participating in the African Union summit this weekend.
The March 2012 coup in Mali has made the security situation worse, deepened the crisis in the north, and created massive displacement. What are the short term prospects?
Syria Mission: In a report to the Security Council on the work of the United Nations Supervisory Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), the SG outlined options for its future orientation. The authorized mission ends on 20 July, with the Council expected to meet before then to decide on its future.
Imagine a cruise ship full of women sinks every day for the rest of the year - killing nearly 1,000 women per day.The sad truth is that a tragedy of this magnitude does happen every day. Every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy
As part of Reuters' Birthing of a Nation series marking the Republic of South Sudan's first year of independence, reporter Rebecca Hamilton writes a deeply reported history of a group that can be considered South Sudan's American Mid-wives.
For the second time this year, Afghan women took to Kabul’s streets to demonstrate their outrage at a gruesome act of gender-based violence. This time, the demonstration was prompted by the videotaped execution of a young woman in a village less than two hours from the capital.
There's a big-deal conference underway in London right now with representatives and leaders from scores of developing and donor countries and top NGOs and philanthropies. Their collective goal: bring modern family planning services to the 220 million women in the developing world.