UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern ...

In a significant move towards eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons programme, the head of the UN-backed international ...

Leste’s independence, the UN was a constant presence, helping to maintain peace and stability. Twenty-four years on, the ...

Now is the time to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Secretary-General said on ...

The world has just experienced the hottest January ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on ...

Armed groups in Haiti are inflicting “unimaginable horrors” on children, turning their “bodies into battlegrounds”, according ...

The US pause in foreign assistance funding has created “confusion” in the vital work of community HIV prevention, despite a ...

The head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA underscored its commitment to assist a population whose rights “continue to be ...

The humanitarian community’s plan to flood Gaza with lifesaving aid passed an important milestone on Thursday with the news ...

Some 230 million girls in more than 90 countries – predominantly in Africa and Asia – have undergone female genital ...

UN peacekeeping must be fit for purpose as the nature of conflict evolves in the 21st century along with new weapons ...

More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN Children ...