UN chief presses US for stronger UN leadership Associated Press At his first meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the U.N. chief pressed for more money and stronger American leadership on climate change, the Middle East, chaos in Somalia and justice in Darfur.
03/03/09
UN denies its peacekeepers failed Congo civilians Reuters The United Nations rejected as "totally unfounded" accusations by a prominent charity on Wednesday that its peacekeepers in Congo failed to protect civilians from attacks by Ugandan rebels.
02/04/09
United Nations Forces to Back Hunt for Congo Militia Bloomberg The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo said it would provide logistical support to a military operation aimed at disarming Rwandan Hutu militias in the east of the country.
01/28/09
U.N. Staff and Hospital Come Under Shelling as Sri Lanka Fights Cornered Rebels The New York Times A glimpse of the hellish fate of civilians stuck in the epicenter of Sri Lanka’s war emerged this week, as the United Nations confirmed that staff members and their families had come under heavy shelling in what the government told them was a no-fire zone, and a government health official, also behind the front line, described artillery attacks on a hospital compound.
01/27/09
Q and A with Lakhdar Brahimi: What Next for Gaza? The Nation In an interview with The Nation, Brahimi talks about the potentially dangerous fallout in the Mideast and beyond of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, and the burden it puts on president-elect Obama as he tries to improve the image of the United States.
12/29/08
In South Lebanon, UN peacekeepers hunt for goodwill The Christian Science Monitor In addition to monitoring the volatile border region between Israel and Lebanon, the peacekeepers build roads and teach foreign languages to locals.
12/24/08
Governments Support Rivals In E. Congo, U.N. Panel Says Rwanda and Congo have been backing rival rebel and militia groups locked in a violent conflict in eastern Congo that has displaced more than 250,000 civilians since August, according to a U.N. panel investigating sanctions violations.
12/12/08
