Yemen: end food diversions to save lives, urges WFP chief

India to replace China as most populous nation: new UN report

Plastic pollution: 10-fold increase in 40 years

The way we produce food today is damaging ecosystems around the world and threatening biodiversity, despite being more abundant and of better quality than ever before. That’s a paradox highlighted by former top UN official Dr. David Nabarro in an interview with UN News this week, after he’d taken part in The Future of Food International Symposium in Rome, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

South Sudanese facing famine in all but name, warns UN food agency

Amid Sudan protest uncertainty, Darfur is still in crisis: OCHA

5G technology jeopardizes forecasting and early warning alerts, say UN weather experts

The chestnut tree that Anne Frank could see from her famous attic hiding place in Amsterdam during the Second World War, was seen by the young girl as a symbol of hope and the natural world, that she longed to touch again.  Considered a living symbol of both Anne Frank’s legacy and of the values embodied by the United Nations, a sapling descended from that very tree, was planted in the gardens of UN headquarters in New York, on Wednesday.

With news that Ebola virus disease has now surfaced in Uganda, where it has claimed two lives so far this week, the World Health Organization is hopeful the country’s efforts to protect communities will quickly prove successful. In an interview with Daniel Johnson from UN News, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic explains what the priorities are for the UN health agency and the Ugandan authorities.

Guterres strongly condemns latest attack on oil tankers in Gulf 

‘Heated clashes’ lead to 17 deaths in Darfur; AU-UN Mission launches investigation 

UNICEF report ranks the best and worst ‘family-friendly’ nations

Mental health problems are “huge” in conflict or emergency settings, with more than one in five people affected, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said in a new report. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, WHO’s Dr. Mark van Ommeren outlines the findings and describes what’s being done to help sufferers, including in war-torn Syria.

Sudan sliding into ‘human rights abyss’, warn UN independent experts 

Key overseas investment data show slide for third year in a row

“Final push” at ILO summit to make child labour a thing of the past

UN Security Council offers Yemen Special Envoy ‘their full support’

Macron leads EU-wide minimum wage call as Merkel, Medvedev warn of global injustice

UN human rights chief Bachelet hails Botswana decision decriminalizing same-sex relationships

Senior Google executive and internet pioneer, Vint Cerf, is a member of the UN High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, 

In an exclusive interview with UN News, he spoke to Connor Lennon, shortly after the launch at UN Headquarters in New York.