Positive news for desperate Yemenis as UN accesses Hudaydah food stores

Millions benefit from West Africa bid to eradicate statelessness: UNHCR

Lifesaving food airlifts in Central African Republic to help 18,000 people

Writer-director-producer Roberta Grossman, and executive producer, Nancy Spielberg were recently at UN Headquarters for the screening of their new film “Who Will Write Our History”. For this edition of our Lid Is On podcast from UN News, they sat down with Jessica Jiji during the UN’s Holocaust remembrance commemorations in New York, to talk about their film.

$2.6 billion pledged to help millions of wartorn Yemenis

Ebola response risks slowing amid massive funding shortages

UN’s emergency aid chief travels to Zimbabwe, Malawi amid rising food insecurity

On Monday, a new photography exhibition was officially opened in Geneva that celebrates the work of journalists over the last 70 years or so. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Nina Larson, President of the Association of UN Correspondents in Geneva (ACANU), describes what it’s like writing the “first draft of history” day in, and day out.

People’s rights under fire, UN chief tells the Human Rights Council

Around 6,000 more mostly women and children flee last ISIL terrorist stronghold in Syria

UN experts ‘deplore’ executions of nine in Egypt who ‘confessed under torture’

UN human rights office appeal to Egypt amid death row executions

Some 260,000 South Sudanese face food insecurity “catastrophe”, UN agencies warn

$4.2 billion urgently needed to save Yemen’s families from ‘horrific’ plight

Bees, soil, trees – even tiny organisms we can’t even see – all play a vital role in producing the world’s food. Yet, this biodiversity, which supports our food and agriculture systems, is under stress. Speaking to Charlotta Lomas, Dan Leskien, from the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, explained why biodiversity is essential to food production.

In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Andrew Bredenkamp of Translators Without Borders, explains how the non-governmental organization is partnering with tech giants including Facebook, Google and Microsoft on projects that will deepen understanding of the needs of at-risk communities to save their languages from disappearing.

Papua violence and ‘snake’ interrogation condemned by human rights experts

‘Bring decolonization to a successful conclusion’ UN Chief

Bengalis celebrate protection of their culture on International Mother Language Day

Thursday, 21 February is International Mother Language Day – a day set aside to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. It is estimated that every two weeks a language goes extinct. But why try to protect these languages?  What is the real significance of this Day? UN News’s Paulina Greer posed these questions to the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Masud Bin Momen.