During her final briefing as resident and humanitarian coordinator for Haiti, Ulrika Richardson struggled to describe the ...

The United Nations continues to draw attention to the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where starvation and ...

Public health conditions in Gaza are “catastrophic”, with hospitals operating far beyond capacity. Some life-saving medicines ...

Colourful blocks for stacking or perhaps an abacus for counting – these are the sorts of tactile objects one might expect to ...

The UN has expressed deep alarm over a large-scale assault by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia on El Fasher, the ...

UN-mandated independent investigators have uncovered “systematic torture” in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – ...

The transformation over two decades of the once thriving Syrian city of Sweida from tourist destination to a landscape marked ...

The UN organization which champions culture and education, UNESCO, has strongly condemned the targeted killing of six ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the killing of six Palestinian journalists in Gaza this past weekend, his ...

More than half the world’s population is under 30, and young people are leading grassroots efforts on issues from climate ...

In 2021, an Afghan woman could have run for president – although none did. Spool forward to 2025, they can’t even speak in ...

Shipping is crucial to the global economy, with more than 100,000 vessels a day transporting some 80 per cent of world ...