Promises made for financing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must be kept, the President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) said on Monday. Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava opened the 2017 Forum on financing for development. Also present at the event were heads of international trade and financial institutions such as [...]

All parties in the Palestinian territory are being urged by the UN to come together to avoid another major humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Robert Piper, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) made the appeal on Friday. It's been five weeks since the shutdown of the Gaza Power Plant. Jocelyne Sambira reports. [...]

  Thousands more migrants rescued on Mediterranean Sea crossing Nearly 3,000 migrants have been saved in a single day after trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that several ships were involved in more than a dozen rescue operations on Thursday. The majority of [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Jocelyne Sambira and Daniel Johnson. In today’s programme: a resurgent cholera outbreak in Yemen is spreading with "unprecedented" speed, the World Health Organization warns; and human rights abuses against civilians in Yei town in South Sudan "may amount to war crimes" an [...]

A resurgent cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has spread with "unprecedented" speed and taken medical professionals by surprise, the UN said on Friday. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 240 people have died from cholera in just the last three weeks, out of a total of 23,400 infections. WHO estimates that 7.6 [...]

Violations and abuses against civilians specifically in Yei, may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, a new report released by the human rights division of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says. The report documents the profound human suffering caused by the ongoing conflict and the exploitation of local and ethnic divisions [...]

Syria talks end on schedule in Geneva, to resume in June Talks to help resolve the Syrian conflict have ended on schedule in Geneva, where UN negotiator Staffan de Mistura said he was satisfied that some progress had been made, and that there had been "less rhetoric". Speaking to journalists after his meetings with delegations [...]

A five-fold increase in vulnerable children travelling on their own around the world has left more of them prey to "predatory" traffickers, the UN has said. UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, issued the warning along with data showing "at least 300,000 unaccompanied and separated youngsters" on the move in 2015 and 2016. Five years earlier, [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Jocelyne Sambira and Matthew Wells. In today's programme: experts race against clock to quell an Ebola outbreak in a remote DRC province and a former refugee is helping displaced women "amplify" their voices.

"Imperative" to find a resolution to Palestinian hunger strike The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process has said it is "imperative" to find a resolution to end the on-going hunger strike by Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. UNSCO chief Nickolay Mladenov issued a statement on Thursday saying he had been following the [...]