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Côte d’Ivoire: Getting Worse Before It Gets Better

By Evelyn Leopold | Mar 01, 2011

The Valentine’s Day chocolates you munched last month probably originated in Côte d’Ivoire, where violence is escalating after a disputed election, threatening to plunge the country into another civil war. The nation is the largest exporter of the cocoa bean, and its price reached a 32-year high in New York last week as an export ban remains in effect.

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UN Shows Concerted Action Over Libya

By Dulcie Leimbach | Feb 25, 2011

The Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Friday recommending that Libya be suspended as a member of the Human Rights Council as it also called on an independent investigation into possible war crimes against Libyan protesters who are demanding the resignation of their country's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

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Antarctica and the Arctic, Revealing the Planet's  Health

By Vicky Liu | Feb 17, 2011

Have you ever tried to imagine what the windiest, coldest and driest places on earth look like?

A United Nations dual photography exhibition through mid-April on the Arctic and Antarctica helps you visualize just how incredibly still and beautiful these two regions are through pictures by two Swedes of both the rough landscapes and active animal life.

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Pakistani Flood Victims Endure the Winter in Camps

By JiHo Choi | Feb 17, 2011

Up to 166,000 Pakistanis remain without homes and needy as a result of last summer’s epic floods, which affected 20 million people, killed 1,700, destroyed 1.7 million houses and damaged 5.4 million acres of arable land in the country. An estimated 3.2 million people are still living in camps that sprouted spontaneously or were organized by UN agencies.

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How Did Bosnia-Herzogovina Fare in the Security Council?

By Dulcie Leimbach | Feb 14, 2011

Ivan Barbalic is a good reader of English. In his monthlong role as Security Council president in January, the permanent representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina relied on press statements when he met with the United Nations press corps.

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UN Points to Urgent Concerns on Population Growth

By Barbara Crossette | Feb 11, 2011

As a still mostly genteel battle rages among demographers and environmentalists over how concerned we should be about a growing global population – on the brink of reaching 7 billion people, up a billion in little more than a decade – the United Nations Population Division has issued warnings about regions where life could become unmanageable.

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Palestinians Turn to the UN for Support Toward Statehood

By Irwin Arieff | Feb 09, 2011

[This article was updated on Feb. 23]

The long search for an international agreement that can end violence in the Middle East is returning to the United Nations after the collapse of President Obama’s push for a quick peace deal through direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

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The UN Is Essential to US Foreign Policy, an Obama Official Stresses

By Barbara Crossette | Feb 07, 2011

As Republicans in the House of Representatives gear up to fundamentally change Washington’s relations with the United Nations, the Obama administration’s top official dealing with international organizations struck back forcefully last week, calling critics out of date and a threat to American policy gains.

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ElBaradei, Formerly of the UN, Demands a 'New Egypt'

By Barbara Crossette | Jan 30, 2011

A few days ago, Mohamed ElBaradei was just a face in a surging crowd of protestors in Cairo drenched in tear gas and water from police hoses. On Sunday, emerging defiantly from house arrest, he was back on the streets, this time to rally demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.

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Jobless Rate Drops in Latin America-Caribbean Region

By Dulcie Leimbach | Jan 27, 2011

The economic rise in most Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2010 led to a 0.6 percentage point drop in unemployment, to 7.5 percent from 8.1 percent in 2009. The unemployment rate is expected to further decline between 0.2 and 0.4 percentage points this year, the United Nations reported this month.

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