The world changed forever 80 years ago this Wednesday when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of ...

Hopes for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been shaken by a surge in brutal attacks on civilians by ...

As conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel continue to deteriorate, a senior UN official upheld the need ...

Famine was declared in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur one year ago. And since then, little has changed – no aid trucks have ...

For the world’s landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), geography isn’t just a challenge, it’s a costly barrier to trade. Cut off from direct access to the sea, these nations face steep transport ...

The Security Council is meeting to discuss rising concern in Israel and elsewhere over the dire conditions facing the ...

Obtaining food is no longer a routine journey in Gaza; it has become a race, fraught with death on all sides as women and ...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that 56 people had died and 132 were missing after a vessel ...

On Tuesday, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported the deaths of five children with a dozen seriously injured, following ...

Efforts are getting underway in Geneva to finalize a global agreement to tackle the staggering and growing amount of plastic ...

As conflict intensifies between rival militaries in Sudan, the UN humanitarian wing (OCHA) expressed alarm on Monday over ...

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is calling for Pakistan to halt the forcible return of Afghan refugees holding proof of ...