The head of the UN migration agency, IOM, was in Yemen on Monday to stress the need for immediate humanitarian access in order to save millions of lives. More than two years of violent conflict there means that 80 per cent of the population, or 21 million people, requires aid relief to survive. Furthermore, Yemen [...]

  Government of Myanmar allows UN officials to visit Rakhine state In what was described by the UN as a "positive step," senior officials were finally given access to Myanmar's northern Rakhine state on Monday. Authorities in Myanmar cancelled a planned visit by the UN to the region last week. Around 507,000 mainly Rohingya Muslim [...]

"We are built for peace, but we are trained for violence". That's the assessment of one expert who came to UN Headquarters in New York on Monday to help mark the International Day of Non-Violence. Kit Miller is the Director of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence and she's spent years working on the [...]

Listen to our daily bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, presented by Dianne Penn and Matt Wells. In today's programme: UN migration chief pleads for humanitarian access to save lives in Yemen; and how space technology speeds up sustainable development.

Young people could be the "disruptive solution" to tackling the global challenge of violent extremism. That's the view of the Youth Minister in the United Arab Emirates, Shamma Suhail Faris Al Mazrui. Appointed last year when she was just 22, she's believed to be the youngest government minister in the world. Ms Mazrui was in [...]

When interrogating killers and other criminals, Norwegian police officers do not seek to "break down" suspects. Rather, they gather information by using a technique that emphasizes communication and empathy. That's according to Nina Holm Andersen, lead investigator in the case against Anders Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in July 2011. Ms Holm [...]

UN officials have welcomed Saudi Arabia's decision to lift a ban prohibiting women from driving. The announcement was made on Tuesday and will come into effect in July 2018. In New York, Saudi Arabia's UN ambassador broke the news to the UN General Assembly during a ceremony marking the International Day for the Total Elimination [...]

If you thought the work of a UN translator was straightforward, then think again. Speaking ahead of International Translation Day, which will be marked on 30 September, the head of the UN translation service Kathy Durnin, said that hours of dedicated work goes on behind the scenes, to keep everyone "on message". Liz Scaffidi went [...]

Listen to our daily bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, presented by Matt Wells and Dianne Penn. In today’s programme: ending the scourge of famine is "completely achievable" says the new UN relief chief, in his first sit-down interview with UN news; and on this World Heart Day, the World Health Organization tells us [...]

On-going violence both against civilians and aid workers trying to protect them, has left the Central African Republic (CAR) "on the brink of a humanitarian crisis". That's the view of Joseph Iganji, who heads the UN Humanitarian Affairs office (OCHA) in the capital, Bangui. Around 23,000 civilians have fled into the bush in western areas [...]