The UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned Wednesday's "indiscriminate suicide attack" in the capital, Kabul, which has left dozens dead and more than 300 injured. The blast took place during rush hour in an area crowded with civilians, in the diplomatic area of the city. In addition to the hundreds killed and injured by [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Dianne Penn and Matthew Wells. In today's programme: The UN Chief says it is "essential" to implement Paris Agreement on climate change And … a fishing village in the Caribbean turns the tide on turtle slaughter, with help from the UN

An environmental group based in Trinidad and Tobago that has received UN support has become a model for marine conservation in the Caribbean. Since 1990, Nature Seekers has helped turn the tide on the slaughter of leatherback turtles, the biggest turtles on Earth. Marine issues top the global agenda next week when the UN hosts [...]

The "unprecedented and growing" threat to the planet posed by climate change means that it's "absolutely essential" to implement the Paris Agreement, said the UN chief on Tuesday. Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled a five-point plan to move forward on the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, signed by more than 190 countries in 2015. It [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Jocelyne Sambira and Matthew Wells. In today's programme:  88,000 people flee an upsurge in violence in the Central African Republic; and the UN health agency explains how tobacco hurts the world's poorest people and the planet, too.

CAR rights violations chart 13 years of "violence and impunity" as 88,000 flee violence Details of horrific rights violations amounting to war crimes in Central African Republic are to be handed over to a special court there tasked with fighting impunity. The UN human rights office, OHCHR, said that it had details of more than [...]

An upsurge in violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has forced more than 88,000 people to flee their homes, a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has said. Twenty thousand of them have sought refuge in neighbouring DRC, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Babar Baloch confirmed. The agency is appealing for [...]

  UN will continue to stand by Iraq in fight against terror, pledges Guterres The UN will continue to stand by all Iraqis in their fight against terror, following bombings on Tuesday that killed more than 30 civilians, according to news reports. That was the message conveyed to reporters at UN Headquarters in New York, [...]

A Dutch army veteran who lost both hands while serving as a UN peacekeeper in Lebanon nearly 40 years ago, says the country is part of his story. Hans Van Putten had only been in Lebanon for about four months when a grenade exploded in his hands. He said the accident changed his life, but [...]

From preparing for the Pope's visit to the Central African Republic to assisting Sierra Leone in conducting elections, the UN's Standing Police Capacity wears many hats. SPC, as it is known, is tasked with rapidly deploying police experts to UN peacekeeping operations and post-conflict or crisis situations. Since 2007, it has established police components in [...]