First Person: Health workers in Afghanistan brave safety fears, to continue treating the sick
An Afghan doctor has told UN News that he is committed to providing essential healthcare…
An Afghan doctor has told UN News that he is committed to providing essential healthcare…
WHO and UNICEF call for humanitarian air bridge in Afghanistan Brazil’s Supreme Court must uphold…
Aid access to Afghanistan holding amid uncertainty and fear: UN agencies UN deputy chief arrives in…
Survivors of terrorism joined UN officials in hosting a virtual high-level event marking the fourth…
In today’s show, urgent humanitarian needs in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, the devastating aftermath…
Race is on to limit impact of extreme weather on most vulnerable: Guterres Minorities must be…
The global initiative to save the planet’s biodiversity on land and water must not be…
Afghanistan aid and medical lifeline to millions must not be cut, warns WHO Fuel crisis in Lebanon ‘a potential…
During Wednesday’s World Health Organization briefing on COVID-19, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for…
Amidst an “alarming rise in hateful discourse” against transgender people globally, the UN High Commissioner…
The delivery of lifesaving aid and medical supplies to millions of Afghans must not be…
UN agencies urge Taliban to make good on promises to protect vulnerable Côte d’Ivoire begins…
Afghanistan faces a “cultural disaster”, following the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, a UN…
The vaccination against Ebola of high-risk populations began on Monday in Côte d’Ivoire following the discovery…
Security Council meets to discuss Afghanistan crisis Rescue and relief efforts continue in quake-hit Haiti …
A case of Ebola virus has been confirmed in Cote d’Ivoire for the first time…
In the lead up to World Humanitarian Day, marked annually on 19 August, climate justice…
Fast-moving Afghanistan crisis ‘has hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe’ UN health agency WHO urges support for…
UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts expressed deep concern on Friday over Israeli military interference in…
Expressing alarm over “rampant police brutality against peaceful protesters worldwide”, more than 40 UN-appointed human…
Nearly 30,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa are believed to have died from cancer during the…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all countries “to put differences aside” in order…
With Taliban fighters continuing to gain ground in Afghanistan, the UN Secretary-General is following events…
In this week’s show, efforts to reassure thousands of children traumatised by fighting in Tigray,…
UN weather agency WMO seeks to confirm 48.8C ‘record’ heat spike in Sicily Afghanistan seeks…
Young people are on the “frontlines of the struggle to build a better future”, the…
A group of UN-appointed experts on Thursday called for a moratorium on the sale of…
Somali hunger crisis leaves 800,000 children on the brink Human rights protection call for Yezidi…
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concern on Wednesday over a new policy by the United States, using public health orders linked to COVID-19, to expel some asylum-seekers and…
Israel must safeguard human rights activists in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and within its borders,…
More than 4,000 Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh have received their…
The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting Guinea following a confirmed death from Marburg virus disease, the…
Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity trials…
Afghanistan emergency: Bachelet condemns floggings, violations by Taliban Tigray food aid needs to step up…
Two independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday expressed serious concern…
‘Code red for humanity’ in new UN global heating report Nagasaki survivors 76 years on,…
As preparations gear up for this November’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the leading scientific…
Although some countries have begun to rectify their “heinous legacy” of discrimination against indigenous people,…
Entrepreneurship can mean more freedom for women according to the first Latin-American advocate of eTrade…
More than a million people die on the roads each year, and up to 50…
A weaving project is helping to close the decades-long divide between the two communities in…
When it started, less than a decade ago, Formula E, the fully electric car racing…
Tigray ceasefire more urgent than ever, says UN relief chief Griffiths Myanmar’s third COVID-19 wave…
Rapidly spreading violence in Mali is threatening the State’s very survival, the UN independent expert on the human rights situation in the country said on Friday. Read…
The World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that it is facing a 70 per…
In this week’s show, an inspiring encounter with an ultrarunner who’s moving mountains to save…
While the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequalities faced by the world’s indigenous people, such as…
ASEAN Myanmar mediator appointment welcomed by UN chief Guterres COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa set…
The remarkable and rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines offers “great hope” that the devastating pandemic can be overcome, the UN chief…
An “alarming” 80 per cent increase in sexual violence in Somalia, as documented in two…