Science museums and centres "living laboratories of creativity" People around the world are being urged by the UN to "support, nurture and harness" the power of science museums and centres to shape an inclusive and sustainable future for all. The call came from the UN's cultural and scientific agency, UNESCO on World Science [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from United Nations Radio, with Dianne Penn and Jocelyne Sambira. In today's programme: Humanitarians say a UN-backed plan to get aid into Aleppo in Syria needs to be approved soon to avert catastrophe And UNICEF and partners call for political will to protect all children from measles [...]

Fight to retake Mosul from ISIL "progressing well" The battle to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul is "progressing well," the UN Security Council has heard. The head of the UN mission in the country updated members on the operation launched by the Iraqi army and its allies to retake the northern city from the [...]

Buildings can play a "transformative" role in fighting climate change in cities, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Experts from around the world are currently meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, at the COP22 conference, which is looking at how to turn the goal of keeping global temperature rises to below 2 degrees Celsius into a [...]

A mood of optimism has taken hold in Lebanon since the recent election of a new president despite the challenges posed by a protracted crisis there, the UN Special Coordinator for the country has said. Sigrid Kaag said that the risk of young people being radicalized, as well as the "toxic narrative" around the hosting [...]

Although mass measles vaccination campaigns have saved more than 20 million child lives over the past 15 years, the illness still kills nearly 400 children each day. For this reason, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and its partners have launched a report calling for stronger political commitment towards reaching every child. Measles is a highly [...]

Sustainable forest management will play an important part in global efforts to combat climate change, according to a senior official with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The head of the agency's Forestry Department, Eva Muller, has been making the case for the world's forests as countries meet in Marrakech, Morocco, for the latest [...]

The Illicit trade in tobacco products is a "global concern" due to a lack of effective tracing and distribution, according to one expert in the field from the United States. Stella Bialous is serving as a consultant for the secretariat of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), which is holding [...]

Libyan women are suffering from a rise in gender-based violence and a lack of trained midwives, making childbirth more hazardous. That's according to Georges Makram Georgi, from the UN's Population Fund (UNFPA). He said the problems stem from conflict and instability that's plagued the country since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, in 2011. UNFPA has [...]

Weather presenters worldwide are learning how to make climate change cool. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has been training these experts to better educate the public about extreme weather and its impact on the planet. Belgian TV weather broadcaster Jill Peeters has been leading the sessions. This week she is at the latest UN climate [...]