If someone wanted to harm you or your family, what could they learn by looking at your social media profile? That's one of the key questions Paulina Greer puts to Neil Walsh, the head of global cybercrime for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in this latest edition of our podcast series, The [...]

  Strengthened efforts needed to prevent genocide, war crimes: UN chief Strengthened efforts are needed to help prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, said the UN chief on Wednesday, launching his first report on the responsibility to protect. He told the Security Council that the high number of refugees and internally-displaced [...]

More than 5,000 civilians killed in Yemen as UN's Zeid renews call for international probe The humanitarian crisis is the worst in the world in Yemen where there's little hope of a negotiated end to hostilities soon. That's the view of Muhammad Ali Ansour, chief of the Middle East and North Africa section at the [...]

Listen to our daily bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, presented by Matt Wells and Daniel Johnson. Today: the latest nuclear bomb test by North Korea is a final wake-up call, the head of the UN's test ban treaty organization tells us. And; the head of a new Syria investigation team tells [...]

The head of a new UN team which is investigating the most serious crimes perpetrated during Syria's brutal civil war, says that it's her job to bring those responsible for abuses closer to justice. Former French judge Catherine Marchi-Uhel, who heads the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism, has already contacted Member States in a bid [...]

  Unity of Security Council "crucial" to addressing North Korea nuclear crisis The unity of the Security Council is "crucial" to successfully addressing North Korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons, the UN chief said on Tuesday. António Guterres was speaking to journalists at UN Headquarters about the country's underground testing of a nuclear bomb on [...]

“Reasonable grounds” to believe crimes against humanity in Burundi, says UN panel International UN-appointed experts say they have "reasonable grounds" to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed in Burundi. The assertion from the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi follows interviews with victims of serious abuses linked to political unrest since April 2015 [...]

The nuclear bomb test announced by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a "dangerous provocation" which needs "united" and "appropriate action" from the international community. That was the message to the UN Security Council on Monday, from UN chief António Guterres, delivered by Jeffrey Feltman, Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs. He was there [...]

Listen to our daily bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, presented by Matt Wells and Jocelyne Sambira. Today, Member States called on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programme this week – we’ve a report from Geneva and the Conference on Disarmament. And, hopes are rising that a new UN [...]

  Casualty figures show month-on-month decline in Iraq: UNAMI The number of civilians reportedly killed and injured in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level in months, according to figures published on Friday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). A total of 125 civilians were killed during August, with another 188-injured due to [...]