"Deep concern" for safety of Syrian civilians on Jordanian border UN agencies expressed deep concern on Monday for the safety of nearly 50,000 Syrian civilians who have been stranded for months on the border with Jordan. The displaced are mainly women and children, who have been trapped in an area known as the berm; an [...]

1.6 million displaced Ukrainians "struggle to find safety" amid ongoing hostilities Parties to the conflict in Ukraine must respect the security of civilians, 1.6 million of whom are displaced and "struggle to find safety", the UN said on Friday. The appeal from the UN refugee agency UNHCR comes amid ongoing sporadic conflict in the east [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Jocelyne Sambira and Matt Wells. In today’s programme: Young people can really make a change, says the new UN Youth Envoy, and the UN in South Sudan says it maintains a “zero tolerance” approach to the militarization of protection camps.  

Barbershop Conference: Changing the conversation around gender equality Despite years of policies to promote gender equality in the workplace, no country has managed to make it a reality. That's one of the findings of a report launched at the second Barbershop Conference, held at UN Headquarters in July. The Barbershop Conference aims to change the [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Dianne Penn and Matt Wells. In today's programme: Up to 20 migrants thought dead in second sea tragedy in 24 hours off Yemen coast, and UN agencies support Eritrea on the path to sustainable development.

Up to 20 migrants from East Africa are feared dead in a new tragedy off the coast of Yemen after they were forced overboard by traffickers, the UN said on Thursday. IOM, the UN migration agency, reported that the latest incident happened barely 24 hours after at least 50 Somali and Ethiopian nationals died in [...]

Arrival of South Sudan force allows peacekeepers to patrol "insecure roads" The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS, to free up additional peacekeepers to mount "more patrols along insecure roads," the head of the Mission, David Shearer, has said.  Mr Shearer, who is [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Matt Wells and Dianne Penn. In today’s programme: Indigenous people still face 'harsh conditions' 10 years after the adoption of a UN Declaration on their rights, and we hear how one UN agency is helping to train impartial and ethical young journalists [...]

Without justice, there can be no sustainable peace or development in Afghanistan. That's according to Sima Samir, a former Minister of Women's Affairs in the country, who was at UN Headquarters recently to talk about the whole issue of judicial rights. She currently chairs Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, and although she says there is [...]

The challenges of day-to-day life in a refugee camp have inspired two young singers in South Sudan to write a song about their experiences. The songsmiths, who go by the names of "Tony Gway 4" and "Ugly Facil," are now in their early 20s, but they grew up as teenagers in the Kakuma refugee camp, [...]