A video claiming to show the summary execution of naked and bound Tamil prisoners by the Sri Lankan army is verified to be authentic by a UN expert. Will justice for war crimes follow?
Nearly 40,000 people were violently uprooted from a contested region of Sudan last week. What can the international community do to better protect civilians in harms way?
Wires are reporting that a UN convoy in Southern Lebanon was hit in a roadside bomb attack. At least three people were wounded. In 2007, six Spanish peacekeepers were killed in a similar attack.
Republicans in Congress are running a gimmicky YouCut program in which fans get to vote on what U.S. federal spending they would like to see cut. Apparently, the UN Population Fund was on this chopping block.
Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, a member of the two-time Grammy winning, multiplatinum band Linkin Park, shares his impressions following his trip to Haiti with Music for Relief and the United Nations Foundation.
There's some grumbling among a certain cadre of UN critics that the new elections to the Human Rights Council failed to produce a majority of "free" countries to the council, as rated by Freedom House.
At a meeting at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, DC yesterday the head of UN Peacekeeping Alan Le Roy called the Sudanese Armed Forces incursion into Abyei a "clear breach of the Comprehensive Peace Accord."