Indigenous peoples have "come a long way" since signing the UN Declaration on their rights a decade ago and need to celebrate their achievements, a chief of the Cree nation in Canada has said. The Cree are one the largest groups of First Nations in North America. Willie Littlechild helped draft the Declaration, a statement [...]

  UNICEF reaches almost half of world's children with life-saving vaccines The UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, has managed to immunize almost half of the world's children under-five, reaching 2.5 billion in nearly 100 countries. The figures, released during World Immunization Week, make UNICEF the largest buyer of vaccines for children in the world. The agency [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Dianne Penn and Jocelyne Sambira. In today's programme: Humanitarians welcome the outcome of a donor conference for Yemen And: a Cree chief reflects on progress made since the signing of UN treaty on indigenous people's rights

The United Nations commemorated the International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day on Wednesday, recalling the devastating Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion in 1986. Radioactive material was spewed into an area stretching 155,000 square kilometres across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. An estimated 8.4 million people across four countries were exposed to radiation, including the 600,000 so-called "liquidators" [...]

Targeted killings based on ethnicity condemned in South Sudan Concerns are growing over the ethnic nature of recent attacks on civilians in several South Sudanese towns amid reports of targeted killings and sexual violence. The world's youngest country has been split by years of civil war between SPLA forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and [...]

Two-thirds of the Yemeni population are in need of emergency support and now is the time to help them, said UN Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres on Tuesday, addressing a pledging conference in Geneva. Mr Guterres said that the conflict between forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and Houthi rebels had created the world's biggest hunger [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Matthew Wells and Jocelyne Sambira. In today's programme: Yemen's conflict is "starving and crippling an entire generation" says the UN chief as an emergency pledging conference gets underway. And…ending the fighting in South Sudan should be a global priority, the head of [...]

The potential for growth in developing countries is enormous and the internet could make this a reality, UN trade agency UNCTAD, said on Tuesday. It's all thanks to a new virtual tool, the eTrade for All Online Platform, which has just launched in Geneva during eCommerce Week. Torbjorn Fredriksson explains how it works to Daniel [...]

The tenth anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has reached a "milestone", the President of the Saami Council said on Monday. The Saami people belong to the indigenous peoples of Europe who live in northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia's Kola Peninsula. They practice reindeer herding as a way of [...]

Women and girls are "paying the heaviest" price as Yemen's humanitarian crisis deepens, increasing their vulnerability to violation and abuse. That's the view of Anjali Sen, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Representative in the country, who's in Geneva ahead of a High Level pledging conference on Tuesday, to try and pull Yemen back from the [...]