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More than 14 million people in Yemen have no access to health services, the United Nations health agency said, warning that transportation of medical personnel and treatment for the injured is...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, voicing concern about the latest decision to build a new...

Following Iraqi Government’s declaration that its forces have liberated the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, Secretary-General António Guterres...

Secretary-General António Guterres expressed concerns over recent public criticism of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the integrity of...

Sara Maria Chellini, managing director of Guerra Edizioni, a Perugia-based publisher of materials for learning Italian as a foreign language, has called the Tehran International Book Fair a big...

Congratulating the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on being awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, top United Nations officials said that the recognition is a reminder of the...

Schooling without learning is a terrible waste of precious resources and of human potential, the World Bank said, warning in a new report that millions of young students in low and middle-income...

With the theme of this year's World Environment Day – 'Connecting People to Nature' – aimed at highlighting the well-documented physical and mental health benefits of being in nature, the United...

The Gaza Strip does not have adequate resources for medical treatment, but Israel prevents patients from leaving.

Efforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, currently the world’s largest, are being hampered by insufficient funding and other challenges, the top United Nations relief official warned.

Combating the “twin plagues” of Ebola and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while addressing the largest number of forcibly displaced people since World War II amid budget cuts is...

“Fake news” has emerged as a global topic of concern and there is a risk that efforts to counter it could lead to censorship

Following the horrific fire of the Plasco Building in Tehran, while extending condolences to the victims’ families and the brave firefighters, the ODVV is taking new action to provide free...

Rights experts meeting at the UN in Geneva were critical of both the French and UK governments

A female bomber has blown herself up at a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people, including her three children.

Amid worsening famine and cholera in war-torn Yemen, the head of the United Nations migration agency has called for greater humanitarian access to enable relief workers reach those most in need and...

As an Afghan refugee and an only son, Ajab Khan Yaghoubi's entire family relies on him to survive.

In just three weeks, the violence in Yemen has had devastating humanitarian consequences: the number of food insecure people has increased from 10.6 million people to 12 million; at least 150,000...

So far in 2016, at least 7,500 refugees have arrived in Yida, South Sudan fleeing nearly five years of conflict in Sudan’s South Kordofan state.

The first women-only factory in Iran was officially inaugurated last week in the city of Sari, northern Mazandaran province.