The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

The new outbreak of violence in the occupied West Bank risks spiralling ‘out of control’, UN human rights chief Volker Turk warned Friday.

The European Union and Ukraine's Western allies have promised to make Russia pay for its invasion, as governments and private investors met in London this week look at funding the country's reconstruction from the ravages of war.

Somalia’s “dire hunger emergency” is spiraling upward with one-third of the population expected to face crisis or worse levels of food needs

Russia killed 136 children in Ukraine last year, says UN report; Kyiv accuses Moscow’s forces of hiding bodies in aftermath of Kakhovka dam breach

Number worldwide expected to double, with rises in every country and across every age group

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, recently sounded an ominous alarm bell. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which aim to significantly reduce poverty around the world and create a better quality of life for all, are off track, he warned.

World Refugee Day was celebrated on June 20. As Bangladesh has not yet signed the 1951 Refugee Convention, there is no merit in not officially celebrating this red-letter day.

Breakthroughs have already begun at a Global Finance Summit here in Paris aimed at easing the debt burden on some of the world's most vulnerable countries whilst freeing up billions of dollars in new funds for climate finance. We speak to Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of UNOPS, the…

The newly passed Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda has made a country that was already dangerous for LGBTQ+ people truly treacherous.