South-South expo draws to a close Representatives from southern hemisphere countries have underscored their commitment to strengthening partnerships and cooperation to achieve global development goals. That's the outcome of this week's Global South-South Development Expo, which wrapped up in Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday. More than 800 participants from 120 countries participated in the meeting. Jorge [...]

Safeguarding livestock diversity is the objective of the latest version of an online database launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The goal is to help countries better monitor and manage animal breeds at risk of extinction: something which could threaten access to food but also sustainable development in rural areas. FAO estimates that [...]

End conflict by establishing an independent Palestine, urges Guterres "Now is the time" to end decades of conflict by establishing an independent Palestinian State, "living side by side in peace and security with the State of Israel", said Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres on Wednesday. The UN chief made his plea in a statement to mark the [...]

Listen to our daily bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, presented by Matt Wells and Dianne Penn. In today's programme: We hear from a member of an international expert panel that will advise the UN chief on mediation efforts; and: An online database aims to protect domestic livestock from extinction.

Family is assumed to be a protective structure, but this is not always the case. That's the view of Harry Cook, Data Management & Research Specialist for the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Geneva, speaking in reference to new statistics that show child victims of human trafficking are often coerced by family members. The Counter-Trafficking [...]

An increasing number of countries in the southern hemisphere are contributing to global humanitarian efforts, which the UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator considers an "encouraging" development. Ursula Mueller is in Antalya, Turkey, this week for a global conference on how these nations are supporting each other: a process known as south-south cooperation. Maoqi Li asked [...]

Progress stalls on ending malaria: WHO Progress "has stalled" in the fight against malaria, which still kills more than 440,000 people each year, according to the 2017 World Malaria Report, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that major gains had been made in recent years, but [...]

Space-based applications and technologies are helping the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to deliver its projects in a faster, more efficient and safer way, according to a senior official there. Bruce McCarron, Director of UNDP's Office of Operations, Legal and Technology Services, said one example is the use of satellite imagery to monitor reconstruction of buildings [...]

10 million Syrians “do not know where their next meal is coming from” Ten million people inside Syria do not know where their next meal is coming from and some have resorted to scavenging for food, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. As a new round of UN-led peace talks begins in Geneva, [...]

Bangladesh – already one of the largest troop-contributing countries to UN peacekeeping missions around the world – would like to send more troops, despite the increasing dangers they face. That's the view of the Bangladeshi Prime Minister's National Defence and Security Adviser, who led his country's delegation to the recent UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference, in [...]