Ships in the port of Nice sounded their fog-horns on Friday, a brassy crescendo to a rare moment of global unity as the Third ...

Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor ...

Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday ...

Secretary-General António Guterres condemned Israeli strikes in Iran late Thursday evening, urging ‘maximum restraint’ from ...

UN agencies on Friday continue to stress they must be allowed to deliver aid in the Gaza Strip as famine looms and a ...

As diplomatic efforts continue to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN development agency ...

Yemen cannot endure more years of division, economic collapse and human suffering, the UN’s top official on the crisis told ...

How can we build a fairer, more peaceful world while safeguarding the planet? That’s the powerful question at the heart of ...

The General Assembly overwhelming backed a resolution on Thursday demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ...

Meeting in emergency session on Thursday in New York, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding ...

Twelve-year-old Tenasoa crawls to work every day at a mine in eastern Madagascar where she collects two kilos of the shiny ...

With over half of the Sudanese population in need of aid and lean season rapidly approaching, the UN Chief for Humanitarian ...