Climate change is set to increase pressure significantly on people's access to water and sanitation unless governments do more to prepare key infrastructure now, the UN warned on Friday.
"Climate change is already posing serious challenges to water (...)
As 18 million people in Africa's Sahel region teeter on the edge of severe hunger over the next three months, the UN released on Friday an additional $30 million from its emergency humanitarian fund, to boost the humanitarian response across four (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is working closely with countries where cases of the rare viral disease monkeypox have been reported, the UN agency said on Friday.
The UN agency said in a statement that there were around 80 cases confirmed so (...)
A record 59.1 million people were displaced within their homelands last year, or four million more than in 2020, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday, citing the latest Global Report on Internal Displacement (...)
The number of people in need has risen by around 10 percent this year so far, the UN's humanitarian affairs chief said on Thursday.
Martin Griffiths, who is also the Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that around 303 million living in 69 countries, (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an emergency use listing (EUL) for CONVIDECIA, a vaccine manufactured by CanSino Biologics, China, adding to a growing portfolio of vaccines validated by WHO for the prevention of COVID-19 caused by (...)
COVID-19 rates are on the rise in the Americas, where new infections and fatalities have been steadily increasing over the past four weeks, the regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
More than 918,000 cases were (...)
A surge in violence fuelled by heavily armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, prompted the UN rights chief on Tuesday to express her deep concern over its severe impact on human rights across the Caribbean nation.
"Armed violence has reached (...)
Syrian families living in refugee camps in Iraq are facing new and alarming levels of food insecurity, according to figures released by the World Food Programme (WFP) and UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Tuesday.
Money is running out to help families (...)
Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rises, ocean heat levels and acidification, all set new records during 2021, while some glaciers reached the point of no return, according to the latest flagship report from the World Meteorological (...)
Severe malnutrition, also known as severe wasting, is one of the top threats to child survival, yet perhaps one of the least known or understood, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Severe Wasting: An (...)
The news that more than 100,000 people in Mexico are now officially registered as "disappeared" is a tragedy, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday, in a call for action to tackle the country's longstanding problem.
A national database (...)
Risk of monkeypox transmission in the United Kingdom is minimal following a confirmed case of the rare and sometimes fatal animal-bourne disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
On 7 May, UK health authorities notified WHO of the (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday expressed concern over the current COVID-19 outbreak in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), where no public vaccination program has been put in place, reiterating its commitment to support (...)
More than two-thirds of Swiss voters have backed an increase in funding for the European border agency Frontex in a referendum.
Switzerland's Frontex contribution, which is proportional to its GDP, is due to rise from €23 million to nearly €60 (...)
At least one person is dead and four are critically injured after a shooting Sunday at a church in Laguna Woods, California, according to the sheriff's department.
"All victims are adults and are en route to the hospital," the Orange County (...)
Almost one billion people with disabilities and older persons are being denied access to assistive technology, according to a UN report published on Monday, calling on governments and industry to fund and prioritize access.
Produced jointly by the (...)
Ensuring everyone has access to a healthy diet is among the goals of a UN-backed initiative launched on Friday in line with efforts to transform food systems globally.
The Coalition of Action for Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems for all (...)
Humanitarians continue to call for scaling up assistance in the Horn of Africa, where the worst drought in 40 years is affecting some 15 million people across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
The drought follows four consecutive failed rainy seasons, (...)
Governments, cities, companies, and communities around the world are taking action to address a significant and growing threat to wildlife, including many species of migratory birds — light pollution.
The issue is the focus for World Migratory Bird (...)
A new UN-led push to prevent an arms race in outer space has received wide-ranging support and participation from civil society and Member States — including all five permanent members of the Security Council — at talks in Geneva.
The first (...)
A human trafficking expert at the United Nations has told UN News how she was instrumental in saving over 1,000 trafficking victims, mainly in eastern Europe and Central Asia. Reda Sirgediene works for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (...)
Investigations must be held into the actions of the Israeli security forces, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Saturday, calling for accountability and an end to impunity.
Her appeal comes in the wake of the killing of (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it is committed to helping the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) respond to COVID-19, after its first declared infection was reported in the media there.
Responding to a question (...)
The UN Human Rights Council met in special session on Thursday in Geneva, prompted by increasing concern over atrocities committed against civilians, linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Amid a mounting number of reports and (...)
