Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Dianne Penn and Matthew Wells. In today's programme: Security Council debates ways to stamp out human trafficking And … An Oscar-winning actress supports UN efforts to close the gender wage gap

Making a documentary about the conflict in Mali was inherently risky, but those risks "were nothing" compared to those facing the people of Mali since 2012, a filmmaker has said. Johanna Schwartz is the director of the documentary "They Will Have to Kill Us First"; a film about musicians in Mali after Islamist groups took [...]

Peace in Syria is a "moral and political imperative": UN chief The UN Secretary-General has issued two "urgent" appeals to all parties involved in Syria's civil war, as it enters its seventh year this week. In a statement released on Wednesday, António Guterres said that Syrian civilians were "victims of one of the worst conflicts [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Matthew Wells and Daniel Johnson. In today's programme: an award-winning entrepreneur urges women to make use of tech to benefit their own communities; and we”ll hear why the private sector has a key role to play in reducing disaster risks worldwide.  

  Conflict in Libya's east linked to executions, hostage-taking Serious rights violations in Libya have been reported since the recent outbreak of fighting in the oil-rich east. The country has been dogged by violence since the overthrow of former President Muammar Gadaffi in 2011. In the latest escalation, conflict erupted on 3 March when the [...]

Suffering of Syria children "hit rock bottom" in 2016, UNICEF says The suffering of children in war-torn Syria "hit rock bottom" in 2016, a report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has found. According to the agency, at least 652 children were killed last year; a 20 per cent increase compared to 2015. Almost half [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Dianne Penn and Jocelyne Sambira. In today's programme: Women and the changing world of work is the focus of the latest session of a UN commission looking at gender equality; And … The Security Council hears why Afghanistan remains difficult place to [...]

UN anti-drug chief details efforts made to rein in narcotics The latest efforts of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to counter the world's illegal drug problem have been outlined by the agency's Executive-Director. Yuri Fedetov spoke at the opening of the 60th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs or CND, in [...]

Hunger-related illnesses have killed 47 children over the past two months at a government-run hospital in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The UN has been warning the world of the dire consequences of drought in the Horn of Africa country, where nearly three million are at risk of famine. UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently appealed [...]

An original and personal vision of what development means to Africa has been unveiled in a new exhibition at the UN in Geneva. With artwork from all 54 countries on the continent, organizers of the Light of Africa show claim it's the first time such a feat has been achieved. Curator Jean-Michel Champault, from UN [...]