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Release prisoners and detainees in Yemen, urge UN rights experts Assistance ramped up to Pacific…

The COVID-19 pandemic is not being taken lightly in India as people comply with a complete…

Abandoning elderly at risk from coronavirus is ‘criminal’: OHCHR Asylum-seekers’ concern over #COVID-19 restrictions –…

Amid rising numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) stressed on…

Early indications from the economic fallout of COVID-19 are that it could cost up to…

Pandemics tend to affect men and women differently, and specialists in gender issues are warning…

In Mozambique on Tuesday, 14 “deeply traumatized” male migrants were rescued from a sealed shipping…

Philippines ceasefire welcomed after Guterres COVID-19 appeal ‘Double-digit’ percentage of global GDP is needed to…

The COVID-19 pandemic shows that global challenges can only be solved through global solutions, according…

Here’s a job you don’t see advertised every day: irradiating the COVID-19 virus. It’s just…

A new assessment by the International Labour Organization (ILO) shows the COVID-19 pandemic could increase…

Massive humanitarian response plan mobilized to aid ‘ultra-vulnerable’ in COVID-19 fight Protect health and safety…

As countries all over the world restrict the flow of goods to halt the spread…

UN Syria envoy appeals for nationwide ceasefire to halt COVID-19   Countries must keep cross-border transport of food, medicines going, during…

UN chief calls for global ceasefire to take on common enemy – COVID-19  Rights expert raises alarm over migrant…

The UN in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza is doing all it can to put…

Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, UN agencies have raced to ensure that millions of vulnerable…

UN aid teams work round the clock to ensure humanitarian support to millions   UN aid teams race…

UN health agency does not recommend against using ibuprofen for COVID-19  Israel has ‘legal duty’ to…

The UN migration agency, IOM, is highly concerned about the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic…

Africa should wake up to COVID-19 epidemic, the says UN health agency chief  Pandemic could mean 25 million jobs threatened –…

Shortly after the outbreak of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), UNICEF was among the first United…

Millions of people in crises will need UN humanitarian aid in midst of COVID-19 pandemic …

A decline in COVID-19 cases in China demonstrates that containment efforts can help alter the…

Tedros renews call to countries to ‘test, test, test’ all cases of suspected infection  COVID-19: WFP sends lifesaving…

The largest humanitarian agency on the planet, the UN World Food Programme, or WFP, has sent lifesaving medical equipment to China…

COVID-19: Europe is the new virus hotspot, says WHO  As Syrian conflict enters 10th year, ‘brutal…

Although the COVID-19 virus outbreak has been designated a pandemic, containment is still possible, and…

The UN’s Victims’ Rights Advocate who champions the rights and dignity of victims of sexual exploitation…

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused unprecedented disruption in many areas of our lives, and that’s…

Countries free of COVID-19 must be better prepared Yemen at ‘critical juncture’ UN human rights…

A decade of conflict in Syria  Brazilian mountain farmers honoured  Educate children in their mother…

Flagship UN study shows accelerating climate change  Nicaragua: after two years of crisis, more than…

Several climate records were broken in 2019 across the world, including unprecedented temperature highs and…

Children are born innocent, “regardless” of their relationship to extremist fighters from the terrorist group known as…

Wrapping up a two-day visit to the northwest part of Syria last week, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta…

‘Yawning gender power gap’: UN chief ‘Serious rights violations’ in Iran: UN rights expert Further…

COVID-19: countries, businesses must protect people as virus spreads, urges UN rights chief  Europe sees…

With COVID-19, an on-going global concern, satellite imagery can play a powerful role in tracking…

The streets of China’s capital having gone eerily quiet, following the COVID-19 outbreak, Beijing is now slowly returning…

The former Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, who has died aged 100, was responsible for…

 – Tributes pour in for former UN chief Javier Pérez de Cuéllar  – 290 million students out of school amid COVID-19 measures   – Lower…

Why is it so difficult to make gender equality a reality?  Our UNcomplicated podcast hosts,…

As deaths continue to rise from the coronavirus outbreak, its economic consequences are becoming clearer,…

– Progress aside, world still a violent place for girls and women: UN report –…

The massive Australian wildfires have scorched millions of acres in the country since July last…

Myanmar doing too little to ensure return of displaced Rohingya, says UN refugee agency chief…

 – Seven UN agencies conduct cross-border mission to Idlib, Syria – Syrians suffering ‘unprecedented’ levels…

It’s time that humankind realizes “that nature doesn’t exist for us”, the Head of the…

COVID-19: Risk now ‘very high’, but containment still possible ‘Mayhem’ in Idlib as Turkey-Syria tensions…