The issue of "working poverty" is a serious problem for young people especially in the developing world, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). "Working poverty" describes people who have jobs that pay so little they can barely survive. The ILO says there are some 235 million youth globally who fall into this category, in [...]

More than 260 million children are out of school, the UN said Friday, warning that it is a serious challenge to Global Goals on education. Just as worrying is the finding that 142 million 15 to 17-year-olds do not attend lessons, according to the data, released by UN agency UNESCO and the Global Education Monitoring [...]

  Some 700,000 people in northern Nigeria to get aid Efforts are being made to scale up life-saving assistance to some 724,000 people in desperate need in north-eastern Nigeria, UN agencies say. The World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) are working together with the local authorities on the matter. WFP has [...]

Investment-related tax evasion cost the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs) approximately US$100 billion in 2014, according to the UN trade body, UNCTAD. Stemming this "haemorrhage" is among the topics on the agenda at its latest conference which opens on Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya. The week-long event, known as UNCTAD 14, comes as countries move to [...]

Impunity for killings in Ukraine remains rampant: UN Impunity for the "widespread killings" that have taken place in Ukraine since 2014 remains rampant, a new UN report has found. The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine released the report on Thursday. The majority of deaths over the past two years occurred in the [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from United Nations Radio, with Dianne Penn and Jocelyne Sambira. In today's programme: A human rights report finds "rampant immunity" for killings in Ukraine over the past two years And, the UN envoy for Syria calls for action from the US and Russia to make talks happen

UN Chief slams "failed leadership" in South Sudan The leaders of South Sudan have failed their people, an "outraged" UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said following another upsurge in fighting the world's newest nation. Many civilians were caught up in the crossfire both in the capital, Juba, and on the compounds of the UN mission in [...]

As a ceasefire in South Sudan's capital, Juba, appears to be holding, doctors at a United Nations hospital there continue to treat people wounded during six days of clashes between rival forces. More than 270 people died as a result of the fighting, including two UN peacekeepers from China. Dianne Penn reports on a hospital [...]

Hopes of fresh talks to decide the future of Syria depend on the United States and Russia doing more to make them happen, UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Thursday. The veteran negotiator insisted that preparations for renewed discussions have been continuing since the last round of UN-led talks, often referred to as Geneva [...]

Impunity for killings in Ukraine remains "rampant" according to a report prepared by the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the eastern European country. Armed conflict in certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, has led to the deaths of 2000 civilians over the past two years. And the report states that the [...]