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The Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of ex...

The ocean has never been silent – waves crashing, seabirds calling, whales singing across vast distances. But in recent decades, a new kind...

The ocean is under siege – and greed is to blame. UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders and grassroots groups...

The global fertility slump isn’t down to young people turning their backs on parenthood – it’s due to social and economic pressures stopping...

The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached “unprecedented levels of despair,” the UN said on Monday, amid more reports...

With science at the forefront of the opening day of the Third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3), UN News boarded a 111-year-old Norwegian tall shi...

With the Mediterranean glittering in the background, UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the third United Nations Ocean Conference...

Drifting with the currents, plankton are the ocean’s lifeblood – invisible yet essential, regulating the climate and sustaining entire ecosy...

Whether it’s their first time or a routine part of their life, menstruation has become a nightmare for women and girls in Gaza. The conditio...

In the Central African Republic, disability carries a deep-rooted stigma, and persons with disabilities often find themselves excluded from...

As world leaders gear up for the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, one policy expert is making waves with an ancient marine organism he bel...

Jazz speaks to people from all linguistic, political and economic backgrounds, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ...

International donors on Thursday pledged an additional $118 million for the United Nations agency assisting Palestine refugees to help overc...

The United Nations chief on Tuesday highlighted the central role he hopes Latin America and the Caribbean region will play in ensuring “fair...

The UN’s top disarmament official has welcomed signs of increased cooperation from Syrian authorities in efforts to eliminate the country’s...

As coral reefs bleach, fish stocks collapse, and sea temperatures break records, world leaders are heading to the French Riviera — not for l...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestini...

The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians “vulnerable to starv...

A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the...

After weeks of negotiations, the Council’s ten elected members have initiated a new draft resolution on Gaza as the humanitarian crisis deep...

Amid reports of yet another deadly attack on a school in Gaza on Wednesday, the UN’s top aid official Tom Fletcher welcomed growing internat...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday “trying to access paltry amoun...

The UN Secretary-General on Monday reinforced his stand against all acts of antisemitism following the horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado,...

As June marks one year since the arbitrary detention of dozens of personnel from the UN, NGOs, civil society organizations and diplomatic mi...

As Ukrainian and Russian delegations meet for a second round of preliminary peace talks in Turkïye on Monday, rural communities faced their...