On a mission to feed hungry citizens, a young social entrepreneur in India, is tackling the food waste challenge there, by rescuing food left over from weddings, parties and supermarkets. Padmanaban Gopalan takes advantage of geolocation technology by allowing restaurants and individuals to log into his “No Waste Food” app, where “they can find the nearest community that can take their food, instead of throwing it in the bin”.

Condemnation as deadly Yemen airstrikes claim children’s lives in capital Sana’a

Justice for LGBTI people is still far from guaranteed, says UN on International day

UK’s forced returns policy highlighted by UN anti-torture panel

Fears over rising Ebola infections in DR Congo, lack of funding for safe burials 

More than 20 million babies born with a low birthweight, warns UN report 

Healthy diets vital for progress in Laos say UN food agencies

Pacific Islands have ‘moral authority’ to demand climate action: UN chief

WHO launches online tool to tackle ‘urgent need’ to combat threats to global health

Nearly a fifth of Somalis at risk from ‘disastrous’ drought

New Zealand youth ‘in frontline’ of fight against climate change: UN chief

Climate change ‘a threat to our human rights’, says Australian minority community

Condemnation for deadly attack on church in Burkina Faso

Conflict escalation in Gaza possible ‘at any time’ amid growing despair and depression: UNRWA

Explorer Paul Rose is usually found in the world’s wildest places where he works with scientists to find solutions to climate change. For the last two weeks though, he’s been in downtown Geneva at a major UN conference, to encourage countries to ban widely used toxic substances and plastic pollutants.

Record number of people displaced by conflict and natural disaster

Myanmar military alleged to have opened fire on men and boys held in school 

Nearly 900 children released by north-east Nigeria armed group

The greatest threat to the traditional way of life across the Pacific region, is climate change, says Simona Marinescu, UN Resident Coordinator for the 28 islands that make up Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau. Paulina Greer spoke to Ms. Marinescu, on a recent visit to UN Headquarters in New York.