# united-nations - Yesterday’s News
The “reign of terror” left some two million Cambodians dead from overwork, starvation and mass executions.
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# united-nations - Wednesday 31 October, 2018
She has been appointed as the Assistant Secretary-General for Safety and Security at the United Nations.
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# united-nations - Monday 8 October, 2018
In a landmark report released today, the organisation said that time is running out to avert disaster.
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# united-nations - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
Ordinarily the General Assembly is a pretty solemn place. But not today.
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# united-nations - Sunday 23 September, 2018
If Ireland’s bid is successful, it would be the fourth time the country has been elected to the council.
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# united-nations - Saturday 22 September, 2018
Mahmoud Abbas met President Michael D Higgins, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Simon Coveney today.
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# united-nations - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
Dr Tom Clonan outlines his reasons for protesting at Leinster House today.
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# united-nations - Wednesday 29 August, 2018
On Monday the UN probe detailed evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity “perpetrated on a massive scale” against the Rohingya.
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# united-nations - Monday 27 August, 2018
UN investigators lambasted the platform earlier this year, saying it had morphed into a “beast” in Myanmar.
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# united-nations - Sunday 19 August, 2018
“Today, leaders are going in the wrong direction.”
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# united-nations - Saturday 18 August, 2018
He was 80 years old.
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# united-nations - Saturday 4 August, 2018
A UN report has said that North Korea has resorted to a “massive increase” of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil products at sea to evade sanctions.
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# united-nations - Tuesday 3 July, 2018
Leo Varadkar and Mary Robinson also made speeches calling for Ireland to win a seat on the UN Security Council.
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# united-nations - Monday 2 July, 2018
A formal launch event for Ireland’s bid to the UN Security Council will take place today.
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# united-nations - Sunday 24 June, 2018
Ireland holds the record for the longest unbroken peacekeeping service of any nation in the world.
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# united-nations - Saturday 2 June, 2018
The military and a number of rebel groups have drafted underage soldiers for years.
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# united-nations - Wednesday 18 April, 2018
Higgins will also meet members of the Irish community during his time in New York.
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# united-nations - Thursday 5 April, 2018
A war of words has erupted between Russia, the UK and the US.
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# united-nations - Monday 2 April, 2018
The original scheme was criticised by the United Nations.
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# united-nations - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
Ireland is running for a seat on the Council for the 2021-2022 term, in which there are two seats available.
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# united-nations - Friday 23 February, 2018
A UN report said some of the cases are “reminiscent of Bosnia”.
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# united-nations - Thursday 22 February, 2018
fter two weeks of negotiations, Russia today told the UN Security Council that there was still no agreement on a 30-day ceasefire in Syria.
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# united-nations - Friday 5 January, 2018
At least 21 people have been killed and hundreds arrested amid anti-government rallies and unrest that began last week.
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# united-nations - Thursday 28 December, 2017
The UN has described the situation in DR Congo as the fastest growing humanitarian crisis in the world.
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The government recently tightened its siege of eastern Ghouta.
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# united-nations - Sunday 24 December, 2017
The UN Security Council unanimously passed new, US-drafted sanctions that will restrict oil supplies.
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# united-nations - Saturday 23 December, 2017
The sanctions will restrict oil supplies vital for Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear programmes.
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# united-nations - Thursday 21 December, 2017
Hundreds of Irish people will be deployed overseas this Christmas.
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# united-nations - Sunday 19 November, 2017
The issue was brought up by concerned groups during UN talks earlier this week.
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# united-nations - Monday 30 October, 2017
The UN has warned that urgent action is required to cut emissions.
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# united-nations - Sunday 8 October, 2017
The actor apparently wanted to invite Kony to dinner so he could be arrested.
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# united-nations - Sunday 24 September, 2017
The war of words between the two powers shows no sign of abating.
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# united-nations - Wednesday 20 September, 2017
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons today.
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Trump took aim at countries who have been on his radar since he took up the presidency in January.
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# united-nations - Tuesday 19 September, 2017
Trump made his comments ahead of the annual world leaders debate at the UN today.
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# united-nations - Wednesday 13 September, 2017
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is being criticised for her failure to speak up for Rohingya Muslims.
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We come 20th out of 188 countries evaluated in a new international health study.
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# united-nations - Monday 11 September, 2017
The UN says 294,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh to escape violence in Myanmar.
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# united-nations - Monday 4 September, 2017
Members of the UN Security Council are calling for further sanctions against North Korea as the state claims it detonated a hydrogen bomb yesterday.
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# united-nations - Saturday 2 September, 2017
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Myanmar of “genocide” against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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