While the eyes of the world are on Myanmar's northern Rakhine and Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, more than 60,000 Rohingya children remain nearly forgotten, trapped in appalling camps in central Rakhine... read more →
With millions of desperate people across Syria now facing their seventh winter of war, the United Nations warned on Tuesday that intensified military operations in the country's north are forcing... read more →
Despite progress over the past month in opening Yemen’s Red Sea ports to commercial and aid shipments, the United Nations relief chief on Friday approved the largest-ever emergency relief allocation... read more →
Nearly 386,000 babies will be born on New Year's Day – some 90 per cent in less developed regions – and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is challenging nations... read more →
Children in conflict zones around the world have come under attack at a shocking scale throughout the year, UNICEF warned, with parties to conflicts blatantly disregarding international laws designed to... read more →
Violent extremists use the Internet to attract younger audiences, to disseminate content and to foster direct dialogue with young people, a United Nations agency-backed study found, but more research is... read more →
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the attack that took place earlier Friday outside Mar Mina church in the Helwan district, south of Cairo, Egypt. In a statement from his spokesman,... read more →
Concluding the main part of its 72nd session, the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday took a number of key actions, including approving a nearly $5.4 billion programme budget for... read more →
Children in Yemen could not have a worse year than 2017, according to a senior official from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “2017 was a horrible year for the children... read more →
By Kishan Khoday and John Knox Among the various drivers of risk in the world today, two stand out: climate change and rapidly rising levels of inequality. While each... read more →