Five years after Myanmar’s military seized power and jailed the country’s elected leaders, the United Nations says the …

The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has welcomed a ceasefire agreement between the Syrian Government and the mainly-K…

Reaching a single child in Sudan’s Darfur region can take days of negotiations, security clearances and travel across s…

When the United States ordered airstrikes on Christmas Day against Islamist militants in northern Nigeria, officials in…

In Sudan, where the devastating conflict between the Sudanese army and rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is neari…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres will hold his official start-of-the-year press conference today at noon in New Yo…

The Security Council-endorsed UN Support Office in Haiti is on track to deliver on behalf of the Haitian people, UN Spo…

Despite a modest increase in humanitarian assistance, the situation in Gaza remains “dire”, with children among the har…

The Holocaust is a warning, that hatred “can consume everything” – a message that feels more urgent than ever, the UN c…

UN-appointed independent human rights experts have raised alarm over violations of children’s rights during US immigrat…

The UN migration agency, IOM, expressed deep concern on Monday over multiple deadly shipwrecks that are believed to hav…

Warning that the “rule of law is being replaced by the law of the jungle,” the UN Secretary-General on Monday urged wor…

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is sounding the alarm over the threat of escalating violence in Jonglei state wh…

The head of embattled UN relief agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, has condemned reports that its headquarters in East Jer…

The staggering amount of harmful AI-generated online content has prompted an urgent call from across the UN system for …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a detailed statement regretting the United States decision to leave the …

As people in war-torn Ukraine face the coldest winter in more than a decade, authorities and humanitarians are working …

Disturbing details continued to emerge on Friday about Iran’s State-led crackdown against mass protests, while UN right…

The new year provides an opportunity for Colombia to keep advancing towards lasting peace, a decade after a landmark ac…

The UN’s top human rights official has raised alarm over what he described as the growing dehumanisation of migrants in…

A rising trend towards government-enforced internet shutdowns – with at least 300 incidents in more than 54 countries o…

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed urged countries to protect the UN Charter in a powerful speech t…

Russian forces launched a fresh wave of strikes across Ukraine this week which have left hundreds of thousands of famil…

As President Trump launched the international Board of Peace plan for Gaza on Thursday, top independent rights experts …

Haiti’s deepening crisis has reached a critical phase, senior UN officials warned the Security Council on Wednesday, as…

From Davos, the President of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday warned that the world has entered a “make‑or‑break” m…

The land flattens on the approach to Birao, a cut-off town ringed by savannah in the far north of the Central African R…

The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, says a new flagship report relea…

The United Nations continues to monitor developments in northeast Syria following clashes between government troops and…

Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have cut heat, electricity and water to hundreds of thousands of civ…

As global leaders gather at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, UN agencies are warning that rising hunger and…

Atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region are spreading from town to town in an organized campaign of violence that includes …

Since 2026, nearly 17 percent of Lebanon’s population has been living in a state of major food insecurity – a situation…

In Yemen, renewed political instability and economic woes linked to the war threaten to complicate the already difficul…

Nearly three years of war have plunged Sudan “into an abyss of unimaginable dimensions” and human rights must be at the…

Three months into the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the UN and partners have delivered tonnes of assistance items and ca…

Myanmar on Friday rejected allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority, telling the International Court of Ju…

Peacekeeping operations in the Middle East are facing mounting security risks, funding pressures and political uncertai…

In war-torn Sudan, local communities say they don’t have enough settlements for the internally displaced, few solutions…

As nationwide protests in Iran appear to ease after nearly three weeks of unrest and bloodshed, a senior UN official ca…

In his final annual address outlining his priorities, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world is “b…

The UN Security Council is scheduled to meet at 3 PM in New York on Thursday to discuss the situation in Iran, where hu…

The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday that it is struggling to keep emergency operations running in Sudan, wh…

Hearings continued on Thursday at the UN’s top court into The Gambia’s claim that Myanmar committed genocide against th…

A fragile political calm in Yemen is fraying, with renewed instability and aid restrictions deepening hunger, illness a…

Standing outside a colourfully painted building in southeastern Haiti, at the entrance to a bustling shop called Gods W…

Conflict-related sexual violence in Sri Lanka remains largely unaddressed more than 15 years after the end of the civil…

Beverages like sugary drinks and alcohol are too accessible and cost too little in most of the world – helping fuel obe…

The head of the UN’s emergency food agency has urged world leaders on Monday to end “man-made famines” and conflicts th…

Top finance experts are meeting at UN Geneva this week to push for a radical shake up in the way economic growth is gau…

Sudan’s protracted conflict has spiralled into one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises, with hunger, displac…

The UN-mandated independent human rights fact-finding mission on Iran has urged authorities to immediately restore inte…

The United States’ intention to withdraw from a host of UN bodies announced this week targets programmes and initiative…

Despite reductions in the overall number of conflict-related incidents in South Sudan, a rise in abductions and sexual …

The UN human rights chief has called for an independent and transparent investigation into reports of deaths and widesp…

Several parts of Ukraine were hit by a new wave of Russian strikes between Wednesday and Thursday morning. from UN Ne…

Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed regret over the decision by the United States to withdraw from a numbe…

The UN Human Rights Council – the world’s principal defender of vulnerable people worldwide – has elected an Indonesian…

At least five civilians have been killed and some 30,000 people displaced following renewed fighting in Aleppo, Syria, …

Some two decades after a shaky political transition, Iraq today is a country “at peace, with increased security and a c…

A sweeping UN human rights report released on Wednesday concludes that in the occupied West Bank, Israel is violating i…

Thousands of displaced people in northern Syria are struggling to cope with freezing conditions after a severe snowstor…

Some 65,000 households in the Gaza Strip were affected by the severe winter storms that whipped through the enclave las…

Ukraine’s agricultural sector remains under intense pressure as the war continues to disrupt food production and endang…

The UN Security Council met on Monday against a sharply altered diplomatic backdrop, following US strikes on the Venezu…

For the first time since 2023, humanitarian assistance will provide Gazans with enough food to fulfil minimum nutrition…

In Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of escalating violence, particularly in the Darfur and Kordofan regions.…

Invoking the bedrock principle prohibiting the use of force against the territory and independence of any State, the UN…

The Security Council meets in emergency session in New York at the top of the hour to address the US rendition of Venez…

Yemen’s already fragile humanitarian response is being pushed to breaking point by deep funding shortfalls, the UN warn…

From deploying peacekeepers to conducting quiet – but at times heated – diplomacy, the UN Security Council sits at the …

The UN’s top human rights official on Friday called on Israeli authorities to abandon plans for new legislation that wo…

As 2026 begins, residents of the Gaza Strip are confronting life in displacement camps and among the ruins of destroyed…