Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist who was shot by the Taliban on her way to school less than a year ago, celebrated her 16th birthday by delivering a powerful speech to the UN youth assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Today is World Refugee Day and as of 2012, there are about 45 million refugees in the world. The campaign Welcome to my Country pretends to raise awareness of the situation of these people.
The UN have launched a $5 billion (£3.2bn) humanitarian campaign for Syria stating that by the end of the year half of the population of the war-torn country, 10 million people, will be in need of aid.
Chemical weapons are a “red line” in the conflict in Syria, but with a UN investigator claiming they were used by rebels and then her UN Inquiry making clear there is no such “conclusive findings”, has the line been crossed?
The UN General Assembly has adopted a historic treaty to control the trade in conventional arms and weaponry, with 254 member states voting in support and only three opposing.