A woman living with disabilities in a camp for displaced people in Nigeria is demonstrating why it is essential that pe…

Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment…

Measles deaths have dropped by 88 per cent since 2000 – yet an estimated 95,000 people, mostly children, still died fro…

Soaring inflation, fragile job markets and shrinking access to healthcare and education are pushing millions of people …

The humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s El Fasher remains dire as mass displacement accelerates and aid access stays restric…

The world moved closer to ensuring that industrial development is a net positive for people and the planet on Thursday,…

Aid deliveries into Gaza continue to face difficulties as fighting continues across the territory, with the UN warning …

The United Nations Peacebuilding Fund on Wednesday announced a major milestone, with the approval of more than $1 billi…

This year alone, 4.6 million children in Ukraine are struggling to access education as they endure a fourth academic ye…

The global response to HIV is facing its most serious setback in decades, UNAIDS warned on Tuesday, as abrupt funding c…

The ceasefire in Gaza is largely holding but recent violence by Israel and Palestinian militants put the truce at risk,…

The UN’s Global Industry Summit underlined the benefits of partnerships for companies in the Global South on Monday, de…

The Security Council meets in a few minutes' time at a critical moment for Gaza’s fragile ceasefire, with ambassado…

Vaccine alliance Gavi and children’s agency UNICEF have struck a new pricing deal that will sharply cut the cost of a k…

In the rolling hills of Indonesia’s West Java province, thousands of farmers are reaping tangible benefits from the dig…

Leaders from across the world are debating how industry can help tackle some of the world’s most urgent challenges – fr…

In a pivotal outcome at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, countries agreed on a sweeping package to scale up climate finance and …

The UN Deputy Secretary-General voiced deep alarm on Saturday over the latest mass abduction from a school in Nigeria, …

Seventeen civilians, including women in labour and patients receiving care, were slaughtered inside a Catholic Church-r…

A South African flag-coloured King Protea flower – symbolising hope and regeneration – is the chosen logo for this year…

More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UN…

The lives of people living in Ukraine on the frontline of the war with Russia are becoming more tenuous and support is …

UNICEF has strongly condemned a deadly attack on a school in Kebbi State, northwest Nigeria, which left the Vice-Princi…

The UN refugee agency has welcomed aspects of the United Kingdom’s proposed changes to its asylum system, while emphasi…

A domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduz…

For millions of people worldwide caught up in conflict, “war and hunger are often two faces of the same crisis,” UN Dep…

The UN Security Council is expected to vote at 5pm in New York today on a US-sponsored draft resolution that would auth…

Combu Island – Ilha do Combu in Portuguese – rises like a wall of living green from Brazil’s Guamá River. It is a testa…

Ukraine is facing what has been described as an “unprecedented housing crisis” three and a half years after the full-sc…

In Belém, Brazil, as the world turns its eyes to the Amazon where COP30 has been underway for the past week, one questi…

Diabetes is one of the world’s fastest-growing health challenges – and its impact stretches across every life stage, fr…

Climate change is already fueling a global health emergency, killing more than half a million people each year through …

The strongest typhoon to make landfall this year in the Philippines has impacted a staggering 1.7 million children – an…

Lack of sufficient funds is jeopardizing the ability of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) to operate,…

Hailed by Brazil as “a crucial moment to demonstrate the strength of the health sector in global climate action,” a blu…

Some 90,000 people have been displaced following the fall of El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur - with another 50,000 fl…

At least 600,000 litres of desperately needed diesel fuel has managed to enter the Gaza Strip in less than a week, UN a…

Civilian casualties in Ukraine were 27 per cent higher from January to October 2025, compared to the same period last y…

Hundreds of protesters and others have been killed and an unknown number injured or detained in Tanzania following prot…

Coercion and sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “assaults on the very principles of internati…

The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday warned of a deepening crisis in Sudan’s North Darfur as violence spread…

COP30 opened in Belém on Monday with a clear message: the era of half-measures is over. Climate change is here, devasta…

A month into the ceasefire in Gaza, families continue to slowly head back to their former homes and communities whereve…

At least 117 million people have been displaced by war, violence and persecution, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on…

The Second World Summit for Social Development wrapped up on Thursday with nations warning that global progress on pove…

Thousands of diplomats and climate experts are heading to Belém, in Brazil’s Amazon, for COP30 – the latest round of UN…

Morning light spreads over Sikaiana, a remote atoll in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific where the ocean both su…

Warnings of worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan continue, despite reports of a ceasefire deal brokered by intern…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is continuing his campaign to accelerate the global switch from fossil fuels to c…

Independent UN human rights investigators have heard first-hand accounts of torture, unlawful detention and the forced …

The UN Special Adviser on genocide prevention has raised concerns over widespread allegations of war crimes committed i…

From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, war has caused widespread death and destruction, but it has also devastated natural re…

UN agencies are stepping up relief operations to help civilians fleeing the escalating violence in Sudan’s North Darfur…

The push to put social justice at the heart of global policymaking took centre stage at the Second World Summit for Soc…

More than 1.5 million Jamaicans have been impacted by the devastation resulting from Hurricane Melissa, many losing the…

Any transition in Gaza must uphold unity with the West Bank and a two-State solution between Israelis and Palestinians,…

Representatives from countries around the world are working together to reduce mercury pollution and protect people and…

As global challenges deepen, governments, civil society and international partners convened in Doha on Monday to highli…

The UN Secretary-General expressed solidarity with Jamaicans on Sunday struggling to cope with the devastating aftermat…

The world of work is undergoing rapid and destabilising change, with widening inequality and job insecurity leaving mil…

Journalists risk their lives every day to bring facts to light, yet most attacks against them go unpunished. from UN …

The Independent UN Fact-Finding Mission investigating alleged rights abuses in Iran says there has been a “surge in rep…