At least 27 refugees and migrants were drowned in a shipwreck near the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesda…

As hunger and malnutrition deepen in the Gaza Strip, humanitarian missions continue to face delays and impediments, whi…

Top UN human rights investigators said on Thursday that war crimes may have been committed in predominantly Alawite are…

July saw the highest civilian casualties in Ukraine since May 2022, with 286 people killed and 1,388 injured, according…

The UN Security Council has rejected the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) declaration last month of a rival administration i…

At least 100 children in Gaza have died from malnutrition and hunger, prompting humanitarians to underscore the need to…

The United Nations continues to draw attention to the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where starvation a…

The UN organization which champions culture and education, UNESCO, has strongly condemned the targeted killing of six j…

Shipping is crucial to the global economy, with more than 100,000 vessels a day transporting some 80 per cent of world …

In 2021, an Afghan woman could have run for president – although none did. Spool forward to 2025, they can’t even speak…

The humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate, UN officials warned on Monday, describing overflowing hosp…

The UN Security Council has expressed alarm at the sharp escalation of violence in Syria’s Sweida region since mid-July…

The UN Security Council is meeting in New York following the Israeli cabinet’s decision to again expand its military op…

The UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the Gaza Strip faces a “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis,…

In honor of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, the UN hosted a virtual commemoration …

Millions of people returning to Afghanistan from neighbouring countries are receiving humanitarian support at the borde…

Hungry civilians are reportedly eating animal feed as women and girls face a “gender emergency” in war-torn Sudan, UN o…

Extreme heat is breaking records around the world, with wildfires and poor air quality compounding the crisis, accordin…

Trapped by geography and squeezed by global market forces, the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries remain among …

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday welcomed a contribution of $3.5 million from the Government of Indonesia…

UN data published on Wednesday underscores the tiny amount of cultivable land that remains in the Gaza Strip, contribut…

Famine was declared in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur one year ago. And since then, little has changed – no aid trucks…

The Security Council is meeting to discuss rising concern in Israel and elsewhere over the dire conditions facing the d…

Children in Gaza are dying not just from hunger, but from the total collapse of the systems meant to protect them, UN a…

The daily struggle to survive an ongoing war in Gaza and to protect one’s family – while reporting on the fear and chao…

As conflict intensifies between rival militaries in Sudan, the UN humanitarian wing (OCHA) expressed alarm on Monday ov…

In Gaza, UN aid teams continue to report that Gaza is on the brink of famine with the UN human rights chief on Monday d…

Since the beginning of 2025, 600 refugees have arrived in Uganda each day, bringing the total number of new arrivals to…

At a major UN forum opening in Awaza, Turkmenistan, this week, parliamentarians from around the world are being urged t…

Efforts are getting underway in Geneva to finalize a global agreement to tackle the staggering and growing amount of pl…

Cholera is ripping through North Darfur, Sudan, threatening thousands of children already weakened by hunger and displa…

In the city of Awaza, where the Caspian Sea meets the desert, UN and Turkmen flags were raised on Sunday ahead of the T…

Recent attacks by armed groups in northern Mozambique displaced tens of thousands in July alone, deepening an already d…

As Gaza faces famine-like conditions, large numbers of people reportedly continue to be killed and injured while search…

Nearly 3.2 million people in the English and Dutch-Speaking Caribbean struggle to get enough to eat, according to the l…

The human rights situation in Haiti remains “extremely worrying,” with 1,520 people killed and 609 injured as a result …