The General Assembly opened its annual debate on the US economic embargo against Cuba on Tuesday. On Wednesday, 28 October, ...

Families in Gaza are bracing for a fourth winter in tents and makeshift shelters as UN aid operations face mounting obstacles ...

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday urged continued international support for Ukraine’s population as Russian airstrikes ...

Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other major greenhouse gases in the atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels reached ...

From Gaza to Yemen, women and girls are facing ever greater dangers this year simply surviving in war zones. The Security ...

An estimated 66.5 million domestic workers – representing more than four out of five domestic workers worldwide – were ...

Twenty people associated with Kenya’s first case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease have been reunited with their families ...

Around 36,600 people have fled into northern Kenya following an uptick in fighting on the Ethiopian side of the border.

Israel’s “aggressive operation” in the West Bank city of Hebron raises serious concerns of ethnic cleansing, UN human rights ...

The UN’s Ebola coordinator and the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) have deplored the killing of a nurse working ...

Top human rights experts investigating Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine said on Monday that the Russian authorities had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by attacking civilians ...

War is growing deadlier for women and girls, who accounted for one in four of the more than 37,000 civilians killed in armed ...