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

The landmark year in the life of the UN has prompted introspection and a fresh impetus for change. How can the organization ...

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

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

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

More than 12,000 critically ill and injured patients, including at least 5,000 children, urgently need to be evacuated from ...

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

South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan are on the brink of catastrophe as violence continues to escalate at an alarming ...

More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN Children ...

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

Widespread pillaging and the destruction of property in Syria by all parties to the conflict have largely gone unpunished and likely amount to war crimes, top independent rights investigators ...