Indigenous peoples have a "key role" in wildlife conservation because of their "deep understanding" of the native ecology. That's according to Sheila Wertz, a senior officer with the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Forestry Division. She spoke with Sandra Ferrari about FAO's latest quarterly forestry report which was released to coincide with World Wildlife Day, [...]

The UN sustainable development agenda cannot succeed without collaboration, a British development expert attending a global conference in Germany said on Friday. Ishbel Matheson, the Director of Communications for the Overseas Development Institute was speaking to Cristina Silveiro on day three of the Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development, taking place in Bonn. Young [...]

US$24 million appeal launched for Somalia by Migration Agency The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched a US$24.6 million appeal to help more than one million Somalis suffering the effects of drought. Humanitarian agencies are reporting worrying similarities between the current food crisis and the 2011 famine in Somalia, in which more than a [...]

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Children bound for Europe "sell their bodies – their only currency" Disturbing new details have emerged of the abuse suffered by children travelling from North Africa to Europe, on people trafficking routes through Libya. The findings by UN Children's Fund UNICEF show that three-quarters of youngsters said they had experienced violence, while one in two [...]

We must reinvent ourselves" to serve world better: UN deputy chief The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires the UN system to "reinvent" itself in order to better serve Member States. That's according to Amina Mohammed, making her first speech at UN Headquarters shortly after being officially sworn in as deputy chief of the organization. [...]

Taliban attacks which killed 15 in Kabul condemned by Security Council Terrorist attacks which killed at least 15 people in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, have been strongly condemned by the UN Security Council. In a statement, the Council described the two separate attacks claimed by Taliban extremists  as "heinous and cowardly." Dozens were [...]

"Pattern of excessive use of force" against dissenting voices in DRC There has been a pattern of excessive use of force in the repression of dissenting voices across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a senior UN official in the country has warned. Jose Maria Aranaz, the Director of the UN Joint Human Rights Office [...]

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Seven million Yemenis "don't know where they will find their next meal" Around seven million Yeminis "do not know where they will find their next meal," according to the UN relief chief Stephen O'Brien, speaking on Thursday at the end of a fact-finding mission to the country. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator said that with nearly [...]