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In Yemen, a decade of conflict has proved catastrophic for the country’s children living under the threat of airstrikes and staggeringly hig...

The UN Secretary-General on Monday took the “difficult decision” to reduce the aid operation inside the Gaza Strip following the resumption...

Despite significant progress over the years, the fight against racism and racial discrimination remains as urgent as ever. 

The tight Israeli blockade of humanitarian supplies is pushing Gaza closer to an acute hunger crisis, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN...

For two years, one international organization under the umbrella of the UN has been leading a relentless campaign in the corridors of global...

The Israel-Palestine conflict is descending further into violence, with mounting civilian casualties in the West Bank and a deepening humani...

Israel’s renewed bombing campaign and intensifying ground operation in Gaza are reversing gains achieved during the brief ceasefire, UN huma...

Respect for human rights is not only a moral obligation but a necessity for economic stability, the UN’s top human rights official said on T...

The legacy of the Syrian conflict, which saw the overthrow of the Assad regime in December last year, is that 16.5 million people are in dir...

A senior UN political affairs official called for Israel and Hamas to restore the shattered ceasefire in Gaza on Thursday and release all re...

Israeli bombardments continued across Gaza on Wednesday, killing hundreds more people – many of them women and children – and leaving widesp...

At least one UN staffer has been killed and at least five others injured – several very severely – following an explosion at their official...

The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday spoke of new “intolerable” suffering for Gazans following the resumption of deadly Israeli airstrikes, u...

UN chief General António Guterres on Tuesday led strong condemnation echoed by multiple United Nations agencies of renewed Israeli airstrike...

The UN Security Council meets at 10 AM in New York to discuss the situation in Middle East, as heavy Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza and a two-w...

Fourteen years of war have left Syria’s people in desperate need – but international support is dwindling, UN Secretary-General António Gute...

The rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of millions of bird...

A relative of two Syrians tortured and murdered by the Assad regime has spoken of the anguish caused by their enforced disappearance during...

Marking 14 years since the start of the Syrian conflict, top UN officials raised alarm over renewed violence and growing instability, warnin...

For Waad Al-Kateab, the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria in December 2024 felt almost unreal. “I thought the ending of my story was...

The UN emergency food relief agency has not been able to transport any aid into the Gaza Strip, due to the ongoing closure of all border cro...

Fresh fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has displaced tens of thousands of families, with children particularly at...

The UN Secretary-General has urged everyone to speak out against xenophobia and discrimination to combat a “disturbing rise” in anti-Muslim...

The Constitutional Declaration issued by Syria’s caretaker authorities marks a pivotal moment in the country’s turbulent transition, with UN...

Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence by Isra...