OVER THE NEXT 15 years, a rough calculation suggests that at least $2.5 trillion will be spent on development assistance. Where this spending goes will largely be dictated by 169 development... read more →
Some 26,500 South Sudanese, mostly women and children, have crossed into Uganda since fighting between rival forces erupted in and around the capital, Juba, on 7 July, the United Nations... read more →
With more than 30,000 foreign terrorist fighters from some 100 countries around the world, terrorism is a global threat requiring a comprehensive and unified response, a top United Nations counter-terrorism... read more →
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, along with the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), condemned the recent clashes in Kidal between forces of The Platform Movement and those of the Coordination... read more →
Launching the first-ever Sustainable Development Goals report on the new global development agenda adopted last year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the 15-year undertaking is “off to a good start” but... read more →
More than half of the world’s fragile coral reefs are under threat and most of our major fish stocks are now overexploited, according to the latest global assessments on the... read more →
More than 18,000 global leaders, scientists, advocates, and frontline health workers gathered yesterday in Durban, South Africa, for a United Nations-cosponsored international conference on AIDS, to advance knowledge about HIV... read more →
From a national park to a fossil site and a naval dockyard, the United Nations cultural agency yesterday inscribed 12 new sites of special cultural or physical significance on its... read more →
For the first time in 71 years, the United Nations -- which has struggled through more violent conflicts during the last decade than at any time since World War II... read more →
Some 263 million children and youth are out of school, according to new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). This is equivalent to about a quarter of the... read more →