The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help fund Uganda's response to an Ebola ...

Children in conflict-ravaged Sudan as young as a year old have been raped since the beginning of 2024, according to the U.N.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister said Tuesday that the deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier to South ...

The United Nations’ World Food Program is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid ...

The United Nations Environment Programme on Monday said a new round of negotiations toward a global plastics treaty will take ...

Warning: This article contains details of sexual violence that some people may find distressing Armed men are raping and ...

The U.N. human rights chief has expressed concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” taking place in the United States ...

The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a ...

We thank the High Commissioner for his report on Bangladesh. It presents critical evidence of extrajudicial executions, ...

The last negotiations for a treaty to rein in plastic waste ended in a stalemate, but some participants saw signs of a possible breakthrough this summer.

For many decades the UN human rights system has been using double standards and wasting resources on false concepts and ...

Data are critically important for everyone,” says Stefan Schweinfest, Director of UN DESA’s Statistics Division. “All the decisions that you take in your life, you're basing them on data,” he stressed ...