On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an exhaustively researched report on the effects of a 1.5° and 2° Celsius increase in global temperatures.  Conor Lennon from UN News has been listening to what the report’s authors had to say.

For Pramila Patten, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Friday was a particularly good day.  Ms. Patten was able to celebrate Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege jointly winning the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.  The Nobel award has put the issue of sexual violence in conflict, back on to the front pages. But what difference will it make in the longer-term.  Ms. Patten spoke with UN News’s Conor Lennon.

Despite tremendous efforts, an Ebola outbreak in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has yet to be fully contained, due in part to difficulties accessing parts of the region where conflict is raging. The UN’s peacekeeping mission in the country, MONUSCO, has played a key role in helping to contain the outbreak from day one, as David Gressly, MONUSCO deputy chief, told Cristina Silveiro of UN News.

UN Goodwill Ambassador and Congolese surgeon joint winners of Nobel Peace Prize 2018

Access still an obstacle to reaching stricken communities on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island

WFP scales up emergency school lunch campaign in Central African Republic

Security Council heads to DR Congo as Ebola threatens regional stability

Shortages and infrastructure collapse, hampers Indonesia relief effort

Global food prices drop more than 7 per cent year-on-year: FAO

On-screen celebrity and designer Kevin McCloud, visited the UN in Geneva on Thursday, to spotlight a flagship UN event to promote sustainable housing for all. Mr. McCloud spoke with UN News's Daniel Johnson about some of the unusual things that have inspired his design-sense.  Daniel Johnson began by asking him if it was true his father had his own unusual professional background, as a rocket tester.

Trade war threatens outlook for global shipping, warns new UNCTAD report

‘Preventing violence and exploitation of children is everyone’s business’: Deputy UN chief

Indonesia: CERF allocates $15 million to bolster relief assistanc

The first in a series of special episodes of The Lid Is On, looking at how digital technology is being used to tackle some of the world's biggest problems, from climate change to disaster relief.

Humanitarians fear for Indonesia’s worst-hit quake areas

New cholera vaccine campaign underway in Yemen

Smoking destroys the environment and undermines sustainable development