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

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

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

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

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

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday condemned an executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump ...

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

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

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

Terrorist fighters with ISIL/Da’esh invaded Iraq’s second city of Mosul in 2014, destroying centuries-old landmarks in a bid ...

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

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