Gaming experts are joining representatives from government and the private sector as well as policy makers, activists and students for what's being billed as the world's first "playable" policy conference. The Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development, taking place in Bonn, Germany, seeks to provoke new thinking for a better world. Some 1,000 participants [...]

Increased fighting in western Mosul in Iraq is making it difficult for people to leave their homes while the price of food rises as availability decreases. That information comes from the World Food Programme (WFP) which reports that more than 750,000 people there are living in dire conditions. Iraqi forces and their allies are fighting [...]

War museums will "continue to predominate" but peace museums can "give daylight" to stories that are often hidden, an expert on genocide says. Dr Joyce Apsel is the President of the Institute for the Study of Genocide as well as a Clinical Professor at New York University and the International Network of Museums for Peace [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Dianne Penn and Matthew Wells. In today's programme: the UN chief warns of the danger of denying people their human rights, likening it to a "disease" that is spreading across the globe And the World Food Programme expresses concern over Iraqis caught [...]

Drugs threaten to turn the Philippines' into a so-called "narco-state" which is why the country will continue to do all it can to eradicate them, its Secretary for Foreign Affairs said on Monday. Speaking on the opening day of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Perfecto R. Yasay Jr told Member States that the authorities [...]

The UN Secretary-General has expressed concern over increased tensions near Guerguerat village in the buffer strip in southern Western Sahara. António Guterres' comments came in a statement issued on Sunday by his spokesperson. Western Sahara is located on the north-west coast of Africa and is bordered by Morocco, Mauritania and Algeria. The Territory was administered [...]

Unless people stop dumping plastic items such as bottles, bags and cups after using them just once, there could be more plastic in the oceans than fish by 2050. That's according to estimates cited by the UN Environment Programme  (UNEP) which has launched the #CleanSeas campaign to combat marine litter by reducing plastic production and [...]

Orlando Bloom, British actor and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) recently travelled to Diffa in south-east Niger where he met with children and families displaced by an insurgency led by Boko Haram militants. The Diffa region currently hosts over 240,000 internally displaced persons, refugees and returnees, including 160,000 children. Governments are being [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Dianne Penn and Jocelyne Sambira. In today's programme: More than one billion dollars needed to save lives in Lake Chad region, the UN relief chief says; and urban experts meet in Mexico to share strategies on making cities safe for women and girls.

A total of US $672 million was raised on Friday at a humanitarian conference in Oslo, Norway, to address the crisis in the Lake Chad region, the UN says. Co-hosted by the Scandinavian country, Nigeria, Germany and the UN, the meeting aimed to address the huge crisis unfolding in a region where 17 million lives [...]