Replacement for United States on Human Rights Council to be elected ‘as soon as possible’

UN providing help to civilians fleeing fighting around Yemeni port of Hodeida

Conflict and climate change challenge sustainable development effort: UN report

Russian-born actor, filmmaker and photographer Yul Brynner was appointed a special consultant to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. As we mark World Refugee Day, this edition of Podcast Classics features “Pattern of Our Lives”, a UN Radio show for which the star of The King and I called on fellow leading actors to narrate a collection of stories, each based on the true-life experiences of refugees.

At UN Headquarters to mark the annual International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, Lord Ahmad, the United Kingdom’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, described mass rapes of women during wartime as “atrocities which dehumanize”. He spoke to Daniel Dickinson about the issue.

Progress towards more than half of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is being made thanks in part to a fleet of miniaturized satellites that have been launched into space, according to the founders of a company which takes a daily snapshot of the Earth’s surface.

Robbie Schingler, co-founder of the company Planet, told UN News at this week’s UN Outer Space Affairs’ (UNOOSA) UNISPACE 50 Symposium in Vienna, that his company can help reach at least 12 of the 2030 SDGs, with its imaging technology.

Immigration and children’s rights on US border ‘not incompatible’, says UNICEF

Humanitarian supplies arrive at embattled Yemen port

UN rights expert urges action to end systemic abuse of leprosy sufferers

UN staff and other humanitarians “know how important it is” to keep operations going in the crucial Yemeni port city of Hodeida, despite the intensifying battle now under way to recapture it. Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, told UN News about the worst-case scenario.

UN agencies rushing to provide life-saving assistance in Yemen’s Hodeidah

UN rights chief calls for international inquiry into rights abuses in Kashmir

Two out of three children live in countries where fathers don’t get paternity leave — UNICEF

Twin activists from Ghana are praying for the day when a child born with albinism “will not be met with scorn, scandal and spectacle.”