"Outrage" at killings in US A group of UN human rights experts has expressed "outrage" at new police killings of two African-American men in the United States. Philando Castile was killed in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana at the hands of the police. The United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of [...]

Disarmament and non-proliferation issues are not "just for men", female participants at a UN peace forum in Austria are learning. They are relevant just as much today as they were during the Cold War Era, says Juliette Kohler of the UN Office on Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). The "Women Higher Education for Peace" event is the [...]

Countries are due to report next week on the progress made in implementing the ambitious UN-led global goals aimed at ending hunger, and lifting people out of extreme poverty. In 2015, world leaders adopted "Agenda 2030" to create a more inclusive world with the help of governments, businesses, civil society and ordinary citizens. A key [...]

The rebirth and healing of Rwanda through its culture, music and dance has been documented in a film giving voice to survivors and perpetrators alike. A screening of Intore or "The Chosen" was recently organized by the UN Outreach Programme on the Rwandan genocide in New York. Genocide against the Tutsi minority on 7 April [...]

New Independent Expert on LGBT issues a “huge development” Activists are hailing the appointment of a UN Independent Expert on the human rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender or LGBT people. The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva has passed a resolution that will establish the mandate. It represents an important step towards stamping [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from United Nations Radio, with Matthew Wells and Daniel Dickinson. In today's programme: the global consumption of fish is on the rise, as fish farming overtakes fishing in the wild, for the first time ever….. And, an emergency UN vaccination campaign against measles gets underway to help [...]

Migration story "omitted for too long" says agency ahead of UN union The UN family is set to get a little bigger.  That's because preparations are under way for a likely new addition: the International Organization for Migration, IOM, which hitherto has been an independent body. This follows a decision by IOM's 165 Member States [...]

For the first time ever, people are eating more farmed fish than species caught in the wild. That's according to the latest report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It finds that annual global per capita fish consumption has also risen to over 20 kilogrammes, or about 44 pounds, which is double the [...]

The tiny Caribbean island nation St Kitts and Nevis has been working with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to make sure it is in a "state of readiness" if a tsunami were to hit the low-lying archipelago. Although a tsunami has never struck St Kitts and Nevis, like other nation sin the Caribbean it is [...]

  Two peacekeepers killed in Mali training accident Two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in Mali after a mortar bomb accidentally exploded during a training exercise. The UN mission in the country, MINUSMA, said the incident took place on a shooting range in Kidal in the north-east of the country on Wednesday morning. A [...]