More details continued to emerge on Friday of atrocities committed during and after the fall of El Fasher to the Rapid …

The newly appointed Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, Miroslav Jenča, has praised the country’s peace pr…

Incidents of mass killings and torture in post-Assad Syria are tempering early optimism about the transitional governme…

As Hurricane Melissa moved north of Jamaica on Wednesday, the head of the UN team there said that preliminary damage as…

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday has – for the 33rd consecutive year – adopted a resolution calling for an end to t…

Aid teams in Gaza are racing to meet urgent needs with tens of thousands still displaced, sheltering in damaged buildin…

As Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica as a category 5 storm, agencies continue mobilising supplies to support …

After 500 days of siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have reportedly taken control of the key Sudanese city …

Airstrikes and ongoing conflict in Ukraine are leaving civilians – including thousands of children – without homes, pow…

Drones operated by Russian forces have repeatedly attacked Ukrainian civilians, causing deaths, injuries and large-scal…

More than 470,000 movements by civilians heading north inside the Gaza Strip have been recorded since the ceasefire beg…

Grave atrocities, including summary executions are reportedly being carried out in the Darfuri regional capital of El F…

With Hurricane Melissa threatening to unleash torrential rains and hurricane-force winds across the Caribbean, at least…

The UN’s top humanitarian official has called for an immediate ceasefire in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Dar…

As Sudan’s destructive war – now in its third year – grinds on, the challenges to health systems are immense and women …

Sixty-five nations have signed a landmark United Nations treaty in Hanoi aimed at tackling cybercrime – a move Secretar…

Marking its 80th anniversary, the United Nations celebrated decades of multilateral cooperation for peace, human rights…

Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday warned that the “fragile” legitimacy of the Security Council could endange…

Imagine this: you visit the familiar website of your local hardware store. Everything looks the same — the same design,…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Wednesday’s advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Ju…

Gaza’s health system remains in ruins despite the fragile ceasefire holding, with hundreds of thousands still facing ur…

Russian forces carried out “another massive wave of overnight attacks” targeting energy facilities, the UN said on Wedn…

Following renewal of the Security Council’s sanctions regime in Haiti and a resolution to create a new Gang Suppression…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) says that Israel must uphold its responsibilities as the “occupying power” by …

No country is safe from the devastating impacts of extreme weather — and saving lives means making early-warning system…

Women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are trapped in one of the world’s worst humanitarian cris…

More than a million people have returned to Sudan’s war-ravaged capital in the past ten months, the UN migration agency…

Fifteen UN international staff are now free to move within the UN compound in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a following an…

Holding the line on the existing rules-based international trading system remains an essential challenge if the world i…

Nearly 70,000 women in Afghanistan tune in to Radio Femme – an all-female-run online and traditionally broadcast radio …

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday that renews sanctions in Haiti for another year as a…

The Security Council on Friday welcomed Lebanese Government efforts to exercise full national sovereignty through the L…

The United Nations faces a “race to bankruptcy” unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-Gene…

Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, floodin…

A severe funding shortfall is threatening to cripple UN peacekeeping operations worldwide, with the Organization warnin…

As a fragile ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip, UN aid teams are intensifying efforts to deliver urgently needed assist…

Over 212,000 Afghan children are now at risk of acute watery diarrhoea and other deadly waterborne diseases, according …

Recovery in Gaza must also include accountability for violations, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wed…

The Secretary-General on Wednesday outlined a set of proposals to strengthen the UN’s effectiveness and improve coordin…

With the end of the year fast approaching, humanitarians are urging donors to step up support for their operations whic…

Russian drones hit a “clearly marked” UN convoy on Tuesday which was bringing desperately needed aid to a war-torn fron…

Common infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – to treat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) war…

The escalating political crisis in South Sudan is driving renewed armed violence and making the already dire humanitari…

As the UN Secretary-General on Monday welcomed the release of Monday of all living hostages from Gaza, aid agencies sai…

At least 17 children, including an infant just seven days old, have reportedly been killed in an attack on the Dar al-A…

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday condemned in the strongest terms the continued killing and injuring of civi…

One in 10 doctors and nurses in Europe experience suicidal thoughts, a new survey carried out by the World Health Organ…

People in Ukraine who have suffered mental stress as a result of the war which continues in their country have found a …

More civilians have been killed and injured in Ukraine over the past three days with most casualties recorded in the Kh…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed the need for dialogue in Madagascar as anti-government demonstration…

The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has almost doubled in the past year, with 680,000 now uprooted fr…

As indirect talks in Egypt seeking to end Gaza’s two-year war continue, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) says reb…

With clean energy on the rise, the UN Secretary-General renewed his longstanding call for countries to make the transit…

Two years after his son was taken hostage during the Hamas-led terror attacks, Yehuda Cohen continues to fight night an…

Nearly 22,000 people fled their homes in northern Mozambique in a single week last month due to a resurgence in fightin…

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres marked two years since the Hamas-led terror attacks on southern Israel by rei…

Two decades after the scorched-earth campaign that left hundreds of thousands dead in Sudan’s Darfur, the International…

The head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Monday took aim at the “deliberate abandonment” of the laws of war today, …

Health authorities in Haiti are turning deaths caused by rabies-infected dogs into a public health awakening with the s…

The UN’s top humanitarian official in Sudan has warned of an impending catastrophe in Darfur, with civilians facing rel…

In his first briefing to the UN Security Council on Friday as the newly designated Special Representative for Colombia,…

UN aid teams on Friday highlighted the disturbing situation in Gaza’s makeshift hospitals, where premature babies cry f…

Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries from the ongoing conflict – including more than 10,…

Rising violence by gangs in Haiti’s capital is restricting humanitarian access and pushing families deeper into hunger,…

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday warned that civilians in Sudan’s El Fasher face the imminent risk of larg…

Immunisation experts at the UN World Health Organization (WHO) have warned that global protection against preventable d…