Recovery in Iraq’s Mosul is a “tale of two cities” says top UN country coordinator Whole neighbourhoods of Western Mosul have been destroyed and nearly a quarter of a million people have nowhere to return home  "anytime soon", a top UN humanitarian official said on Tuesday. Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, made [...]

Protesters in Venezuela have reported being shot at with nuts and bolts at close range by security forces amid what the UN on Tuesday called the "widespread and systematic" use of force during anti-Government demonstrations. The UN human rights office, OHCHR, made the announcement in Geneva after conducting interviews with victims and witnesses of the [...]

A new generation of "impartial but competent" young journalists is on the rise across the Pacific, thanks in part to training being offered by the UN Educational and Cultural Organization, UNESCO. That's the upbeat assessment of UNESCO's Director of Office and Representative to the Pacific States, Nisha. Ms Nisha said it was important for all [...]

  UN Mission in Colombia ambushed, one police officer injured The UN Mission in Colombia has confirmed that a team containing UN observers was ambushed over the weekend, while extracting explosives. The team, which included former FARC rebels and police officers, was working to remove hidden weapons and explosives, as part of the latest phase [...]

Fighting to drive out ISIL extremists from strongholds in Syria's Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour has compounded the "acute" needs of civilians, the UN said on Monday. The development comes as Syrian forces and opposition militias continue their assault on the extremists' strongholds in the north and east of the conflict-hit country. Daniel Johnson has more. [...]

The international community's efforts to record rights violations in war-torn Syria "must continue" after the resignation of a leading member of a UN Commission of Inquiry, the panel's two remaining investigators said on Monday. In a statement, commissioners Paulo Pinheiro and Karen AbuZayd thanked Carla Del Ponte for her more than five years of service, [...]

  "Window of opportunity" for Libya to emerge from crisis: UN envoy There is a "window of opportunity" for Libya to emerge from conflict and economic collapse but a political agreement is vital, said the newly-appointed Special Representative for the country, Ghassan Salamé, speaking on Monday. He visited the capital Tripoli over the weekend and [...]

South Sudanese citizens who have been displaced to UN protection camps as a result of conflict say they feel safer when those camps are searched for weapons and other prohibited items. When the search is conducted by women, there's a higher sense of trust, confidence and security. That's according to Cynthia Anderson, an officer from [...]

Better understanding is needed of the UN's role championing children caught up in armed conflict, and the work that the world body does to stop armed groups recruiting child soldiers. That's according to Virginia Gamba, who took up her post as Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict just a few weeks ago. She praised [...]

IOM data shows rise in migrants deaths at US-Mexico border Undocumented migrants attempting to cross the border from Mexico into the United States are dying at a faster rate than in previous years, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported. There have been 232 fatalities so far this year, up from 204 during the [...]