"Immediate and flexible resources" are need to help nearly 19 million people in Yemen, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). WFP Country Director, Stephen Anderson, was speaking ahead of High-Level pledging conference on 25 April, which hopes to provide emergency resources to alleviate Yemen's humanitarian crisis. The event is being organized by the UN [...]

Rape chants lay bare Burundi terror campaign: UN human rights chief The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed deep alarm at a widespread pattern of rallies in Burundi where members of the ruling party's youth wing chant about impregnating and killing their opponents. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said the organized nature of these [...]

Nearly a third less aid has reached people in Syria's besieged towns this year compared with 2016 as "men with guns"…and local power-brokers continue to obstruct deliveries, the UN said on Thursday. The information from Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN, followed a scheduled meeting of the Syria humanitarian task force, in Geneva. The [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Matthew Wells and Jocelyne Sambira. In today's programme: men with guns on the ground continue to prevent life-saving aid reaching desperate besieged civilians in Syria; and we'll hear about the bold new finance initiative to help 800 million children go to school, [...]

A new high-tech water monitoring tool developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will allow farmers to "produce more with less". That's the view of Jippe Hoogeveen, a Senior Land and Water Officer with FAO, describing how the new open-access database, which went live on Thursday, will work in practice. He said that the [...]

A ground-breaking International Finance Facility for education is vital to ensure that half of the world's children don't miss out on the basic schooling needed to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That's the view of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, who said on Wednesday that "education has been neglected [...]

UN takes steps to reduce costs and use of aircraft: Guterres An initiative has been launched to reduce the cost and use of United Nations' aircraft provided by Member States, the Secretary-General announced through his Spokesman on Thursday. The Organization currently deploys 58 airplanes and 157 helicopters in 12 peacekeeping missions and 6 special political [...]

Huge advances have been made against many tropical diseases but growing urbanisation has created what UN health experts are calling a huge breeding ground for sickness. In its update on so-called Neglected Tropical Diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that one billion people were treated for at least one NTD in 2015. [...]

Seventeen new mass graves have been found in an area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that's seen months of clashes between government soldiers and local militia, the UN said on Wednesday. In a call for an independent investigation, the UN Human Rights Office, OHCHR, said that DRC troops were reportedly responsible, after [...]

  Resolve Gaza energy crisis, UN Middle East official urges A senior UN official is calling for resolution of the electricity crisis in Gaza, where the sole power plant has run out of fuel. UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said the social, economic and political consequences of what he [...]