Six years after COVID-19 killed millions, battered health systems, disrupted lives and brought the global economy to a ...

More than eight decades on, the UN General Assembly remains the place where the UN’s 193 Member States come together to ...

Sitting in her Vienna office ahead of a pivotal UN gathering in Abu Dhabi, Monica Juma is focused on a simple reality: crime ...

The world is entering a period in which abnormal water supplies are becoming the norm, with river flows, groundwater and ...

Over 1,000 cases of sexual violence against civilians and prisoners of war (POWs) in Ukraine have been documented from the start of Russia’s invasion to the end of July this year.

Independent investigators appointed by the UN’s Human Rights Council found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the United ...

The deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has taken a disproportionate toll on women and girls, many of whom are on the frontlines caring for patients as well as their ...

At the current rate of progress, gender equality would take 171 years to achieve, a new UN report finds as institutions built ...

The catastrophic flooding that swept away entire villages in northern Nepal could occur again in the country or elsewhere in the Himalayas due to climate change.

People displaced by the renewed fighting in Yemen have described fleeing for their lives amid shelling and gunfire, aid agencies reported on Friday, while highlighting the dramatic increase in ...

Renewed fighting in Yemen is deepening an already severe humanitarian crisis in a country where more than 12 million children ...

Khalilur Rahman took the gavel as President of the UN General Assembly's 81st session amid what he calls a crisis of confidence in the organization he has served – in one capacity or another – for 35 ...