The Secretary-General strongly condemned on Sunday, an attack in Kidal, a city in northern Mali, against a convoy of UN peacekeepers that claimed the...
Amidst escalating needs and soaring hunger, refugees caught in the eye of the perfect storm
Further food ration cuts are imminent for refugees as humanitarian needs multiply around the world while funding struggles to keep pace, the UN food...
The Battle for Covid-19 Vaccines: the Rich Prevail Over the Poor
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) – The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of “vaccine apartheid” which has discriminated...
Guterres visits refugees resettled in NYC, urges world to ‘stand together in solidarity’
Ahead of World Refugee Day, marked annually on 20 June, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday visited refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan now living,...
In Colombia, decades of violence and armed conflict created significant obstacles to human development and sustainable peace. To encourage the private sector to move...
Building peace: Plotting a route towards democracy in The Gambia
After two decades of dictatorship, The Gambia is on the road towards democracy and respect for human rights, The UN is working closely with...
Nearly one billion people worldwide suffer from some form of mental disorder, according to latest UN data – a staggering figure that is even...
In Burkina Faso, UN humanitarians on Friday appealed to the international community for help, after attacks by armed groups forced thousands to flee their...
Sweltering conditions in Europe have come earlier than expected this year but the bad news is, they’re the shape of things to come. Read...
Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’
Sexual violence has become a brutal tactic of warfare and repression that “terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities,” the UN chief said on...
A light-based scan could detect deadly bowel disease in preterm babies 
Colombia quake: In Cali’s ruins, an ‘overwhelming sense of humanity’ 
A photographic memory is wishful thinking 
Türkiye’s changes to child detention ‘raise serious human rights concerns’