Listen to our daily bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, presented by Vibhu Mishra. In today’s programme:  A new UN mission to support rule of law, police development in Haiti; and: UNICEF official shares memories of "a horrible year" for children in Yemen.

The United Nations General Assembly on Sunday approved a $5.4 billion budget for the Organization for the biennium 2018-2019. The programme budget covers UN activities across a range of areas, including, political affairs, international justice and law, regional cooperation for development, human rights and humanitarian affairs, and public information, among others. Johannes Huisman, the Director [...]

For children in Yemen, there could not have been a worse year than 2017. That's the assessment of the Representative of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the war-torn country, Meritxell Relaño. Besides ongoing deadly conflict, children there have faced a cholera epidemic, looming famine, a disruption in health services and a blockade hampering delivery [...]

UN budget for the biennium 2018-2019 The UN General Assembly on Sunday approved a nearly $5.4 billion budget for the Organization for the biennium 2018-2019. The programme budget covers UN activities across a range of areas, including, political affairs, international justice and law, regional cooperation for development, human rights and humanitarian affairs and public information. [...]

DRC violence fuels new displacement Violence in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has prompted a sharp rise in those fleeing to neighbouring Uganda, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said on Friday. According to latest reports, more than 2,600 people had left Ituri province this week alone. That's five times the [...]

Access to data is crucial for humanitarians responding to various crises worldwide. For example, aid workers feeding hungry people in Nigeria use a mobile-based platform to monitor the price of rice and other staples to know when costs increase. To better assist these professionals, the UN has opened the Centre for Humanitarian Data in the Netherlands that [...]

Liberians return to the polls next week for a run-off election to replace President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first African woman to be elected a Head of State. The vote will mark the end of an era as her legacy will be tied to UN efforts to build peace in the aftermath of two civil [...]

First closure of civilian protection site in South Sudan Hundreds of families who had been sheltering at a UN camp in South Sudan are returning home due to improved security.  That’s according to the UN mission in the country, UNMISS, which for the first time has closed one of its protection of civilian sites, or [...]

Listen to our daily bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, presented by Dianne Penn and Vibhu Mishra. In today's programme: Liberia gears up for a presidential run-off election next week. We hear how the UN mission there is supporting the process; and: A "father of the internet" offers reassurance to virtual world.

People intent on causing harm to others by misusing the Internet are a modern-day threat that the global IT community is doing all it can to overcome, one of the web's so-called "founding fathers" said on Thursday. Dr. Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and one of the original designers of the virtual network, [...]