Violence and insecurity in Iraq have caused children and teenagers serious psychological problems, such as post- traumatic stress disorder and extreme anxiety. That's according to Abdulwahed Abdullah, a psychologist at Terre des Hommes, a UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) partner organization that deals with child migration. More than 3 million people are currently displaced across Iraq, [...]

Deaths attributable to tobacco could rise to eight million annually unless efforts are made to curb its usage, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. People in developing countries are expected to be most at risk according to The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control report which looks at the economic, healthcare costs, and development [...]

Global economic growth is expected to rise by 2.7 percent in 2017, according to a report released by The World Bank. Improvements in the commodity market with respect to the export and import of oil, gold and agricultural products, and growth in advanced economies have been cited as reasons for this moderate increase. However, the [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for more global action on conflict prevention. In his first address to the UN Security Council, Mr Guterres stated that prevention is not merely a priority, but the priority for saving lives, reducing suffering and giving hope to millions worldwide. Dianne Penn reports. Duration: 2’23″

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from United Nations, with Daniel Dickinson and Matthew Wells. In today's programme…14 million Yemenis are going hungry and many could die And, emergency aid for Palestinian refugees caught up in the Syria conflict  

Thousands of refugees, who are entering Uganda on a daily basis from three neighbouring countries, are not getting the support they need due to a lack of funding according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The East African country received more than half a million new refugees from South Sudan, The Democratic Republic of Congo [...]

An emergency US$ 411 million appeal has been launched to help Palestine refugees caught up in the Syria conflict. The UN says those Palestinians are among the worst affected by nearly six years of fighting in the country. The warning comes from Pierre Krähenbühl, who heads the UN agency which supports Palestine refugees, UNRWA. He's [...]

In Yemen, some 14 million people, or more than half of the population, are not getting enough to eat and many could die; that's the bleak assessment of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The Gulf state has endured more than 18-months of instability as government forces and rebels, continue to battle for control of [...]

Keeping women out of the workplace costs the global economy around US$17 trillion, the head of a leading NGO in Canada has told the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Julie Delahanty is Executive Director of Oxfam Canada, and recently took part in a panel discussion at the IMF on Reducing the Gender Gap. She said that [...]

  Imagine what it would be like to live as an aid worker or civilian in a country like Iraq, controlled by the terrorist group ISIL. That's the premise of a new animated film, produced by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP). WFP's Jonathan Dumont came up with the idea for the film, entitled Living [...]