North Korea missile test "another brazen violation": UN chief The launch on Tuesday of what North Korea said was an intercontinental ballistic missile, has been described by the UN chief as "another brazen violation of Security Council resolutions". Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement issued by his Spokesperson, that this latest launch by North [...]

Tourism in Africa can reduce poverty but the industry needs help to resist challenges from conflict, climate change and health emergencies, the UN said on Wednesday. In a new report from UN trade agency UNCTAD, latest data indicates that the sector accounts for one in 14 jobs on the continent – with women and young [...]

More than 7 million children are crossing borders in West and Central Africa in search of safety or a better life, a new report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has found. The vast majority of child migrants are uprooted by violence, poverty and climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa, the report underscores. However, the region [...]

TV weather presenters explore impact of warming cities In another year of record rising temperatures, television weather presenters have been forecasting the degree to which some of the world's major cities could hot up due to rising carbon dioxide emissions. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has joined forces with the research and communication organization Climate [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Jocelyne Sambira and Daniel Johnson. In today’s programme: a new UN guide aims to stop child labour in agriculture during conflicts and disasters; and Coral reefs are vanishing at an unprecedented rate, a biologist warns.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about self-proclaimed "coral nerd" Zack Rago, is that he grew up in the land-locked US state of Colorado. Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate, as highlighted at the UN Ocean Conference in early June. As part of an effort to find out why – and [...]

Cholera, diarrhoea present deadly risk to tens of thousands of children: UNICEF Yemen is in the grip of the world's worst outbreak of cholera, but diarrhoeal diseases and malnutrition are also endangering the lives of tens of thousands of children in South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan. That warning from the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, comes [...]

A new guide aimed at preventing child labour in the agriculture sector during times of conflict or disaster has been launched by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The agency explained that these crises can affect a family's ability to feed, educate and protect their children, thus forcing children to find work in the [...]

Peacekeepers from the UN Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, are helping to provide a much needed sense of security to displaced people in a small town in the north of the country. Unlike many displaced communities in other parts of South Sudan, these people are not fleeing the conflict which has troubled Africa's newest nation [...]

Young male asylum-seekers are not something to be afraid of and they should be given more opportunities to engage with host communities. That is the view of award-winning photographer Mark Henley, who has been speaking at the UN in Geneva about taking a series of refugee portraits for an exhibition with Hospice Général shelter in [...]