Yemen cholera cases top 820,000 The number of suspected cases of cholera in Yemen is now over 820,000, the United Nations said on Friday. Yemen is in the midst of the world's worst-ever single-year outbreak of the water-borne disease, with more than 2,150 associated deaths since April. Cholera is caused by ingesting contaminated water or [...]

Earthquakes, hurricanes and other so-called sudden onset phenomena force nearly 14 million people a year to flee their homes every year – and that number is set to rise, the UN said on Friday, the International Day for Disaster Reduction. UNISDR, the agency tasked with encouraging Member States to do more to protect vulnerable communities, [...]

Legal vacuum "an obstacle to advancing gender equality": UN Peacekeeper An absence of laws is an "obstacle to advancing gender equality" because it doesn't give women the support they need to report cases of gender based violence. That was the reality confronting Assistant Inspector of Police Annah Chota when she got to Abyei, Sudan, to [...]

Efforts are under way to eradicate a neglected form of tuberculosis that has a particularly damaging impact on poor rural communities in Africa and South-East Asia, UN health experts said on Thursday. Animal – or zoonotic – TB can be passed to humans through contaminated meat or dairy products and kills at least 12,000 people [...]

Support from the UN to help Haiti finally put an end to cholera, will continue when a new UN Mission for Justice Support, known as MINUJUSTH, begins its work next week. That's according to the head of the UN Stabilization Mission in the country, MINUSTAH, which ends its mandate on 15 October. Sandra Honoré told [...]

Could space science and technology be the tool to demolish the "gender ceiling" in Nigeria? That's the belief of a woman who was involved in the design and building of four satellites launched by the West African country. Iroka Chidinma works for the National Space Research and Development Agency and is pursuing a PhD in [...]

Listen to our daily bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, presented by Matt Wells and Dianne Penn. In today's programme: Support from the UN to end cholera in Haiti will continue as a new UN mission prepares to begin its work in the country; and: Efforts underway to eradicate a neglected tuberculosis [...]

Parental leave is smart for the economy and helps change minds Unequal pay and lack of paid parental leave holds women back in the world of work. That's the economic reality underpinning a meeting organized by UN Women and the Nordic Council of Ministers which took place at UN Headquarters in September. Norway began offering [...]

Withdrawal of US from UNESCO "deeply regrettable": Bokova The decision by the United States government to withdraw from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is "deeply regrettable" and a "loss for multilateralism". That's the view of UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, who on Thursday described the move as a "loss to the United [...]