Category: International

In post-quake Haiti, rebuilding lives and welcoming new...

Three months after a devastating earthquake struck the south-west of Haiti, a hospital that was largely destroyed has continued to...

Crunch-time talks continue as COP26 negotiators seek de...

With the clock ticking towards the end of the final day of COP26, the UN climate summit in Glasgow, leaders and negotiators are pu...

Libya elections ‘essential next step’ towards peace and...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged Libyans to forge a spirt of national unity and overcome any remaining differences ...

Belarus-Poland crisis: Human rights of trapped migrants...

Amid growing concerns about the plight of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers at the Poland-Belarus border, the UN rights office...

Europe hits highest weekly COVID-19 cases since pandemi...

Almost two million cases of COVID-19 were reported in Europe last week, the most in a single week in that region since the pandemi...

Syria: Conflict, COVID and rising costs, ‘pushing peopl...

World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley concluded a three-day visit to Syria on Friday, warning that more peop...

UNESCO celebrates 75th anniversary, logo lights up  Eif...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) logo projected on the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Friday commemorat...

Conviction of US journalist symbolic of media repressio...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday urged authorities in Myanmar to immediately release all journalists who have b...

Lake Chad Basin: Fighting terrorism, ‘decisive test’ on...

The situation in Africa’s Lake Chad Basin region remains highly volatile, the UN peacekeeping chief told the Security Council on F...

Security Council appeals for end to violence in Myanmar

The UN Security Council has called for an immediate cessation of violence across Myanmar, and efforts to ensure the safety of civi...

‘Dire’ economic and fiscal situation in Palestine requi...

A piecemeal approach to the current political, economic and security challenges in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) only r...

Yemen: UN Special Envoy calls for urgent end to fightin...

Ahead of Thursday’s Security Council meeting behind closed doors on Yemen, the UN Special Envoy, Hans Grundberg, said that a UN-le...

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