UN alarm over mounting Ukraine casualties, amid desperate scenes in Mariupol
Ongoing violence in Ukraine has left millions of people “in constant fear” of indiscriminate shelling, the UN warned on Friday, as efforts continued to...
Calling on the international community to accept and adopt the recent findings in his report, an independent human rights expert said on Friday that...
A deepening crackdown on civil society in Libya, has prompted the concern of the UN human rights office, which noted on Friday that arbitrary...
Ethiopia: Guterres welcomes Tigray humanitarian ceasefire agreement
The UN chief on Friday welcomed the declaration of an indefinite humanitarian truce on the part of the Ethiopian Government, and the commitment by forces in...
‘Sharp rise’ in Nicaraguans fleeing to Costa Rica, strains asylum system
Around three per cent of Costa Rica’s population is now made up of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said...
Call for unity in Security Council over latest DPR Korea missile test
The top UN political affairs official urged the Security Council on Friday to be united in its response to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK)...
Lost genes may help explain how vampire bats survive on blood alone
Surviving on blood alone is no picnic. But a handful of genetic tweaks may have helped vampire bats evolve to become the only mammal...
The UN chief on Friday paid tribute to the dozens of United Nations personnel who have been detained this year while working for the...
“Let us stand united against racism and together build societies based on dignity, equality and solidarity”, the UN chief said on Friday, International Day of...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Mar 25 (IPS) – The writer is Research Fellow at the UK-based Institute of Development Studies and member of its...
The grass beneath our feet: Why rangelands matter 
Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo 
900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks 
‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes