The international community should be ashamed that three years since the adoption of the Geneva Communiqué on Syria, the Middle Eastern country’s "cataclysmic conflict" continues unabated, United Nations  Secretary-General  Ban  Ki-moon  said today.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today launched the Global Coalition Unite for Heritage campaign, which aims to strengthen the mobilization of governments and all heritage stakeholders in the face of deliberate damage to cultural heritage, particularly in the Middle East.

Humanitarian access to civilians trapped by the Syrian conflict is being increasingly obstructed by the ongoing fighting in the country and a shortfall in critical funding, a senior United Nations relief official warned today.

29 June 2015 — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned today’s fatal terrorist attack in Cairo which resulted in the killing of Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat and the injuring of numerous civilians. According to media reports, Mr. Barakat died when a car bomb detonated in the Egyptian capital’s suburb of Heliopolis. At least eight others were also hurt in the attack.…

Strongly condemning the terrorist attacks carried out separately today in Tunisia, Kuwait and France, United Nations  Secretary-General  Ban  Ki-moon  underscored that, far from weakening the world’s resolve, the heinous incidents will only strengthen commitment to defeating all forms of terrorism.

The fight against Islamic State is "the struggle of our generation", Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has said, as it emerged the British death toll in the Tunisian attack will rise above 30, the BBC reported.

24 June 2015 — The United Nations Peacebuilding Fund is "something positive which works, in a troubled, turbulent and  turmoil-driven  world," Deputy  Secretary-General  Jan Eliasson said today, while asking its stakeholders to consider devoting a small amount of assessed contributions for peacebuilding purposes.

On 23 June the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks has voiced serious concern over the use of force applied by the police to disperse peaceful protesters in Yerevan, Armenia.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, called the opening in Seoul, Republic of Korea, of an office to work on human rights issues in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) a "breakthrough that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago." "It is rare that the opening of a small office is such big news," the High Commissioner told…

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) extremists blew up two Muslim burial sites in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, a Unesco World Heritage site, the AFP reported.