Monitoring Systems FAO and Government of Iran launched a project that stablishes a prototype agriculture monitoring system, in three provinces in the country to improve the quality of agriculture information... read more →
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres commended the first responders and residents of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, for mobilizing to aid in what is being called Somalia's worst-ever bomb attack. In a statement from his... read more →
A committee to strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) will discuss its work at the annual IPU forum, which began in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ahead... read more →
Sudden onset disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and tropical cyclones, are likely to displace nearly 14 million people worldwide each year, warns a United Nations-backed study released Friday –... read more →
The Seventeenth Conference on Housing Policies in Iran commenced with the commemoration of World Habitat Day. The opening ceremony, held in the Roads, Housing and Urban Development Research Center (known as... read more →
The United Nations health agency announced the establishment of a high-level global commission on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) to identify innovative ways to curb the world’s biggest causes of death and... read more →
The United Nations global emergency response fund has reached its 2017 funding target of $450 million, but much more is required given that the number of people in need of... read more →
More than 200 million people are out of work around the world – an increase of 3.4 million since last year, the United Nations labour agency said Monday, calling for... read more →
United Nations agencies are seeking more funds to cope with the mass exodus of people fleeing violence in Myanmar into Bangladesh, which the top UN aid official described the world's... read more →
An economic model to estimate the costs of intimate partner violence – the most common form of violence against women in the Arab world – was spotlighted this week at... read more →