Roundup: UN calls for action against human trafficking

The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) has selected Wells Fargo as the corporate chair of its upcoming National Convention. According to a media release, the convention is set to take place September 21-23, in downtown Salt Lake ...

30 July 2014 The 2014 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Meeting of Experts will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 4 to 8 August 2014. Formally known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and ...

The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (CRSR) is a United Nations multilateral treaty that defines who is a refugee, and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum. The ...

India has been actively engaged in multilateral negotiations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in a positive, constructive and forward looking manner based on the basic principles of the Convention and its subsequent ...

NAACP , the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States, has announced it will hold its annual national convention in Baltimore in 2016.Tessa Hill-Aston, president of

Mon. 21 of July of 2014, 16:34h On July 20, at the Dili Convention Centre, the Zero Hunger Challenge campaigns of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and "Together Against Hunger", a joint initiative of the CPLP and FAO, ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 30 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Wednesday urged all people to reach out to one another as friends and build long-term foundations for lasting peace in the current time of mistrust and violence, with ...

As the United Nations prepares to celebrate the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies in 2015, the photonics industry is buoyant about the many material-based science innovations poised on the tipping point of mainstream ...

PHOTO: Testimony from Thursday's human-rights hearing in Phoenix will become part of a United Nations review of how well the U.S. complies with an international human-rights treaty. Image courtesy U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. July 30, ...