Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Matt Wells and Dianne Penn. In today’s programme: Trust is key to protecting unaccompanied children left to the mercy of traffickers in Europe, says the UN Refugee Agency; and a revitalized partnership across the world is needed if the Sustainable Development Goals [...]

A deal to set up a ceasefire zone in Syria along with other political developments could help a fresh round of talks aimed at ending more than six years of conflict in the country, UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Monday. The veteran UN negotiator was speaking to journalists in Geneva after Russia, [...]

A plan has been unveiled to protect unaccompanied refugee and migrant children from violence and abuse as they head to – and travel within – Europe, the UN announced on Monday. The proposals are contained in a document called The Roadmap – the work of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) [...]

A revitalized global partnership to meet the challenges of implementing the ambitious 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is needed. That's the view of the Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), addressing the opening of the High Level Political Forum on the SDGs at UN Headquarters. Matt Wells reports. Duration: 2’48″

Yemen cholera cases surpass 300,000 The number of suspected cases of cholera in Yemen has surpassed 300,000 in just 75 days, the United Nations announced on Monday. The unprecedented outbreak of the disease is also associated with 1,700 deaths in the country. Cholera is present in more than 90 per cent of all districts in [...]

Many of the world's biggest cities are exposed to rising sea levels but scientists and Mayors can work together to protect millions of people from the threat, climate experts said on Friday. According to the UN partner the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), more than 100 million people live just one metre above the current [...]

UN chief "deeply sorry" as Cyprus deal proves elusive UN chief António Guterres has said he is "deeply sorry" that talks aimed at reuniting Cyprus have ended without an agreement, at the end of several days of intensive negotiations in Switzerland. Here he is speaking to journalists in the early hours of Friday morning: "I [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Jocelyne Sambira and Matthew Wells. In today's programme: A greater gender balance is needed in peacekeeping, the UN chief says; and recent reports of sexual abuse by peacekeepers "shocked" the UN in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Deploying more women to peacekeeping operations will help boost the protection of civilians and reduce the chances of sexual exploitation and abuse, the UN chief urged on Friday. Antรณnio Guterres was speaking via video-link to chiefs of defence and senior military officials attending a conference at UN Headquarters in New York. The meeting is part [...]

Hunger report shows US$1billion toll of malnutrition in DRC each year A study published on Friday into the economic toll of malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reveals costs of around US$1 billion each year. That's equivalent to as much as 4.5 per cent of the country's Gross Domestic Product, according to [...]