Pressure on freshwater resources is growing as demand increases in regions marked by scarcity, the UN Food and Agriculture ...

After more than two decades working alongside Iraq through war, political upheaval and the fight against ISIL terrorists, the ...

More than half a million people have now been uprooted by escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

More than a month after Hurricane Melissa slammed the Caribbean, devastated communities still require assistance, the ...

As 2025 draws to a close, geopolitical divides are deepening – North and South, East and West. Against this backdrop, the UN ...

Pregnant women took shelter in a bunkerised maternity unit in the Ukrainian city of Kherson last week, after a hospital was ...

In Sudan, deep concerns persist for the many tens of thousands of people believed to still be trapped in El Fasher in the Darfur region, but UN aid agencies believe they may soon get access to the ...

Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has been implicated in a decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, ...

In Gaza, as airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to kill and maim Palestinians, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on ...

Intensifying fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has claimed more than 70 civilian lives, displaced ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) expert committee has again confirmed that there is no causal link between vaccines and ...

Afghanistan’s worsening humanitarian crisis is being driven by the accelerating erosion of fundamental rights – especially ...