More than 12,000 critically ill and injured patients, including at least 5,000 children, urgently need to be evacuated from ...

Some 230 million girls in more than 90 countries – predominantly in Africa and Asia – have undergone female genital ...

Terrorist fighters with ISIL/Da’esh invaded Iraq’s second city of Mosul in 2014, destroying centuries-old landmarks in a bid ...

More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN Children ...

As the world marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation on Thursday, the United Nations is ...

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

The humanitarian community’s plan to flood Gaza with lifesaving aid passed an important milestone on Thursday with the news ...

Widespread pillaging and the destruction of property in Syria by all parties to the conflict have largely gone unpunished and likely amount to war crimes, top independent rights investigators ...

I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down,” said Hawa’a Mohamed Kamil, a peer educator in Djibouti, who was ...

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 ...

New executive orders issued by the White House are set to further impact the cooperative, multilateral work of the United ...