UN peacekeeping must be fit for purpose as the nature of conflict evolves in the 21st century along with new weapons technology, more than 60 nations heard this week at a global forum on the future of ...

The US pause in foreign assistance funding has created “confusion” in the vital work of community HIV prevention, despite a waiver issued for HIV/AIDS programmes, the UN agency to combat the still ...

The civilian death toll in Sudan has surged dramatically, with at least 275 people killed between 31 January and 5 February, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, reported on Friday ...

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

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday condemned an executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump imposing punitive sanctions, countering that the order sought to “harm ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) caused by the ongoing Rwanda-backed M23 offe ...

With critical funding now uncertain, the UN Refugee Agency says refugee families face the risk of losing life-saving aid when they need it most ...

Some 230 million girls in more than 90 countries – predominantly in Africa and Asia – have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) and can suffer lifelong physical, emotional and psychologica ...

Human rights group, Amnesty International, has criticised the US for imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) describing at action as “reckless”, “vindictive”, “brutal” ...

As the world marked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female genital Mutilationon Thursday, the United Nations is warning that without urgent action, a staggering 27 million more girls could ...

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

The world has just experienced the hottest January ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday, citing data crunched by UN partner the Copernicus Climate Service ...