Defending the vulnerable from attack is one of the important duties of a UN peacekeeper, but what do you do when you come across a secret safe that may contain weapons, hidden away in a camp designed to protect civilians? That's one of the real-life dilemmas facing a UN police patrol in this latest edition [...]

Somalia's leaders are committed to ensuring a safe and sustainable future for the country's people, but no-one should be under any illusion that this may take a long time, a senior UN official said on Tuesday. Michael Keating, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and head of UN Mission UNSOM, has been speaking [...]

"Another big loss" as 14th peacekeeper this year is killed in CAR The death of a Mauritanian peacekeeper and wounding of three others in the Central African Republic (CAR), was described on Tuesday as "another big loss" to the UN Mission in the country, MINUSCA. UN chief António Guterres condemned the killing and offered his [...]

Building roads, empowering young people and contributing to peace and development efforts: these are just some of the duties performed by more than 200 international and local volunteers working with the UN in Sudan. Roughly half of these UN Volunteers are serving at the joint African Union-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), in areas such as [...]

Yemen: desperate families trapped by armed clashes, airstrikes Families trapped by fighting in Yemen's capital Sana'a are making "desperate" calls to humanitarian workers amid a surge in armed clashes and airstrikes, the UN said on Monday. In a statement from Sana'a, Jamie McGoldrick, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator there, said that aid workers are unable to [...]

A UN-sponsored conference on space and sustainable development has inspired the creation of an award for women scientists in Nepal. That's according to Manisha Dwa with the Nepal Astronomical Society, based in the capital, Kathmandu. Ms Dwa attended the first High Level Forum looking at how the global space sector can contribute to efforts to [...]

Transforming those who have suffered sexual exploitation and abuse perpetrated by UN personnel from victims into survivors is the goal of the first-ever official appointed to advocate on their behalf. Jane Connors took up the post of UN Victims' Rights Advocate in August and undertook her first field visit two months later. She has already [...]

Safeguarding human rights, ensuring a safe and orderly journey and guaranteed health services are some of the key issues facing young migrants. That's highlighted by Romesh Silva, technical specialist for the UNFPA, who was at UN Headquarters for an event on Health and Human Mobility this week. One of UNFPA's goals is improving available data [...]

Intercultural innovators are not uncommon around UN Headquarters in New York, but it's not every day they arrive courtesy of one of the world's leading car companies. Germany's BMW Group joined the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC) in the driving seat on Wednesday, to hand out Intercultural Innovations Awards to 10 projects centered on [...]

Governments now understand that their national migration policies cannot work unless they fit into an international model. That's the message from the UN Special Representative for International Migration, Louise Arbour. Over the past year, she has been overseeing regional negotiations that will lead to the adoption of a Global Compact for Migration in 2018. The [...]