The United Nations on Wednesday firmly rejected allegations by the Houthis in Yemen that some UN agencies and partners have been “colluding to destroy” the country’s education system. Stéphane Dujarric,…

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, appealed on Wednesday for $21.4 million to urgently scale up health services for forcibly displaced people in African countries impacted by mpox.  The funding will…

Negotiations continue ahead of the Summit of the Future at UN Headquarters this month, where world leaders will enhance cooperation to tackle critical challenges facing the international community and address gaps in global governance.…

Ongoing violence in Haiti is putting the education of over 100,000 displaced children in the south at risk, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday. The continued surge in armed gang activity…

A massive disaster response has been launched in Viet Nam following widespread damage inflicted by Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit the South China Sea in almost three decades, the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported…

Collaboration between developing countries, often known as South-South cooperation, can help to solve what a senior UN official has described as the world’s “complex development context”. Speaking to UN…

The UN Middle East envoy has strongly condemned deadly airstrikes by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday on a densely populated area in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Gaza. Thousands…

The 78th session of the UN General Assembly closed on Tuesday, concluding a tumultuous year in international diplomacy and underscoring the need for a collective resolve among nations to confront pressing challenges…

Nearly 50 million people in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Eastern Europe are not getting enough to eat, or double the number from before the Arab Spring over a decade ago, a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday in New York.…

Increased violence along the frontlines in Syria, with continued war crimes on all sides, is leaving civilians in the region fearful of a “large-scale war”, a new report from the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry released on Tuesday warns.…