Politics

Iran: women hunger strikers entitled to medical care, UN rights experts urge

 

16 January 2019

 

Human Rights

 

Yemen: Security Council backs new mission in support of key port city truce

 

16 January 2019

 

Peace and Security

 

More urgency needed to help increasing numbers ‘locked out’, before 2030, says UN’s Bachelet

 

16 January 2019

 

Human Rights

 

Many countries are failing to protect and promote the interests of all their people – despite pledging to do so in 2016 – the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday.

Mali: ‘Dire’ humanitarian situation, ‘grave’ security concerns challenge fragile peace

 

16 January 2019

 

Peace and Security

 

Bachelet appeals for record funds to support UN human rights work in “an era of great turbulence.”

 

 

 

 

16 January 2019

 

GENEVA

 

Advancing multilateralism goes ‘hand-in-hand’ with work of the UN

 

15 January 2019

 

SDGs

 

Revitalizing the United Nations to “strengthen a multilateral rule-based world order” tops a list of priorities the General Assembly President told UN Member States on Tuesday.

Migration surge leaves children stranded, begging on Djibouti’s streets

 

15 January 2019

 

Women

 

Begging, scrubbing cars or selling themselves on the street for sex are a way of life for many children in Djibouti, according to a survey released by the International Organization Migration (IOM) on Tuesday.  

Thousands of Syrians in ‘life and death’ struggle amid harsh conditions in remote desert camp, UN warns

 

15 January 2019

 

Humanitarian Aid

 

‘Historic’ moment: Palestine takes reins of UN coalition of developing countries

 

15 January 2019

 

Economic Development

 

First aid in six months reaches families in western Yemen, 'timelines' slip over Hudaydah ceasefire talks

 

15 January 2019

 

Humanitarian Aid

 

Thousands of families in conflict-affected communities south of the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah in Yemen have received aid for the first time since last July, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.