In honour of Nelson Mandela International Day on Friday, the United Nations is celebrating with a public service activity, a ...

An agreement signed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government and the Congo River Alliance/March 23 Movement ...

Gang violence in Haiti has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and many are finding shelter in former schools where ...

Globally, there are 12.5 billion hours of work that the world never pays for because it barely even sees these duties.

A surge in sectarian violence in southern Syria and Israeli airstrikes reaching central Damascus have pushed the war‑scarred ...

Colombia has changed profoundly since the 2016 peace deal, but uneven state presence, lingering armed groups and mounting ...

Natalia Kanem, the head of the UN sexual and reproductive rights agency, UNFPA, is stepping down, after a tumultuous eight-year tenure that has seen her, and her colleagues, uphold the rights of women ...

Almost four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, criminal groups in Ukraine are adapting their business models amid ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the Israeli strike on Thursday that hit the only Catholic church ...

From makeshift furniture in Gaza to metro classrooms in Ukraine and solar-powered tablets in Sudan, the UN is working to ...

Pakistan’s monsoon emergency deepened on Thursday as authorities declared disaster zones across parts of eastern Punjab ...

Craters filled with muddy water pocket the landscape of the Kono district in Sierra Leone – the result of a blood diamond ...