Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000, ...

The UN Secretary-General issued a statement on Friday condemning the latest Houthi rebel attacks on shipping in the Red Sea ...

A chaotic wave of returnees from Iran and Pakistan is straining Afghanistan’s already fragile capacity under Taliban rule and ...

Young people are shaping the future and demanding a world that is just, inclusive and sustainable, the UN chief said on ...

Haiti has been caught in a vicious and unending cycle. First, gang violence expanded westward into the Artibonite and Centre ...

When Natalia Kanem reflects on her eight-year tenure at the helm of the UN reproductive health agency, she doesn’t begin with ...

Sudan’s brutal civil war is pushing more children towards the brink of starvation, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported ...

Devastating funding cuts from international donors are hitting countries hardest affected by HIV — but many are showing ...

Escalating conflict and targeted violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have forced some 150,000 Rohingya refugees to flee to ...

Humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip “have never been higher” while the ability to assist the population has “never been more constrained,” a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said ...

Following the deaths of several children in an Israeli strike on Palestinians waiting in line for nutritional supplements in ...

The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep dismay over the “unconscionable” killing of children during an ...