Although famine has eased in South Sudan, the number of people struggling to find food has risen, UN agencies and their partners warned on Wednesday. More than six million people are now facing hunger, up from 4.9 million in February, representing the highest level of food insecurity that the country has ever experienced. Serge Tissot [...]

Although many countries have ratified UN conventions against terrorism, there still needs to be more action to get these provisions included in national laws. That's the assessment of Jean-Paul Laborde who oversees the UN office which works alongside global partners such as the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) to help countries bring terrorists to justice. [...]

Protracted conflicts and disasters have left a record 141 million people in need of humanitarian help, the UN's Emergency Relief chief said on Wednesday. On the opening day of an aid conference in Geneva, Stephen O'Brien said that funding requirements in the last six months had grown to US $ 23.5 billion, with eight million [...]

The North Lawn of UN Headquarters was converted into a temporary yoga studio on Tuesday as UN staffers stretched their minds and bodies in honour of the International Day of Yoga. Swami Sivadasananda led the guided yoga class on the newly-restored lawn, which until a few months ago, was home to a temporary office building. [...]

Despite the ongoing conflict in Syria, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and its partners reached more than two million people last year through projects that support livelihoods or business recovery in vulnerable communities. UNDP Country Director Samuel Rizk said supporting Syrians where they are helps avoid displacement, whether inside or outside the country. Mr Rizk [...]

The sweltering conditions affecting western Europe are set to last for at least another two weeks, but there may be some respite by the weekend, a senior UN weather expert said on Tuesday. With temperatures soaring well above 30 C in Geneva, Omar Baddour, senior scientist at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) explained that the [...]

Nearly US$1 million worth of generators, fuel tanks, computers and other electronic devices will be presented to the Lebanese Armed Forces this month by the UN mission in the country, UNIFIL. The handover, scheduled for this Monday, is part of a joint initiative to enhance the army's readiness to fully takeover from UN blue helmets [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Dianne Penn and Matt Wells. In today's programme: … A staggering 141 million people worldwide now need humanitarian aid due to disasters, conflict and long-standing crises And: We preview a summit to address the burgeoning refugee crisis in Uganda    

Central DRC region has become “a landscape of horror”: UN Human Rights chief UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein told the Human Rights Council on Tuesday that the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had not done enough to bring abusers to justice in the Kasais – though there had been [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Dianne Penn and Matt Wells. In today's programme: … We hear about challenges facing aid workers in northern Uganda supporting waves of refugees from South Sudan And: An agricultural project aims to restore livelihoods in northern Iraq