Thailand flexes financial muscle to grapple with climate crisis
“Social responsibility and sustainable profit” can go hand in hand according to...
Massive earthquake strikes Haiti; UN working with aid partners to support response
The United Nations is working to support rescue and relief efforts in...
UN experts urge Israel to ‘protect and encourage’ Palestine rights defenders
UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts expressed deep concern on Friday over Israeli...
Afghanistan: UN chief urges Taliban to halt offensive immediately, negotiate ‘in good faith’
The UN Secretary-General on Friday called on Taliban militants to “immediately halt”...
End ‘rampant’ police brutality, promote tolerance: UN human rights experts
Expressing alarm over “rampant police brutality against peaceful protesters worldwide”, more than...
DR Congo: ‘Widespread and systematic’ violence linked to clashes over gold
Rival armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are...
Childhood cancer care in Africa hit hard by pandemic
Nearly 30,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa are believed to have died from...
Fast-moving Afghanistan crisis ‘has hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe’
Afghanistan is on course to witness its highest ever number of documented...
Afghanistan: UN chief following escalation in fighting ‘with deep concern’
With Taliban fighters continuing to gain ground in Afghanistan, the UN Secretary-General...
Top UN envoy points to fresh hope for democratic Somalia
Political strides are breathing new hope into the country’s fragile State-building process,...
