A statement jointly issued on Sunday by Finnish president Sauli Niinisto and the Finnish government condemned the rocket attacks on Mariupol, Ukraine.
The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group pledged in Havana on Sunday to work for the rights of the victims of the armed conflict.
The United Nations' refugee agency on Tuesday called on Syria's neighbors to accept all the Syrians who were forced to flee the bloody conflict in their homeland.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and "underscored the need to find a political solution to the conflict" in Syria, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here.
Global warming will probably trigger more human conflict and violence worldwide, according to a study published Thursday in the U.S. journal Science.
The UN Security Council on Monday called for greater efforts to tackle underlying root causes of conflicts so as to support efforts in preventing clashes and in peace-building across Africa.
Continuing milatary attacks on ethnic Kachin rebels by Myanmar government have raised the conersn of China and the international community over the region's stability.