Creating a healthy workplace improves mental wellbeing and productivity – UN
People spend a large proportion of time at work, where experiences there factor into their...
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Yemen: UN downplays Saudi Arabia-led coalition’s crimes against children
Every time the United Nations makes concessions that allow perpetrators of crimes under...
September ‘deadliest month’ of 2017 for Syrians, UN relief official reports
Hospitals, ambulances, schools and displaced people escaping violence are being routinely...
Group's Nobel Peace Prize win spotlights need to end 'nuclear nightmare' says UN chief
Congratulating the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on being awarded the...
In Bangladesh, UN aid chief urges scaling up response for Rohingya refugee crisis
With over half a million Rohingya refugees having fled their homes in Myanmar since violence...
Dire lack of winter funding puts millions of refugees in Middle East at risk, warns UN agency
Dwindling resources could severely jeopardize efforts to provide refugees and displaced persons...
For Yemenis and migrants, protracted conflict an 'endless nightmare' – head of UN agency
Amid worsening famine and cholera in war-torn Yemen, the head of the United Nations migration...
UN rights experts urge Member States to ‘go beyond statements,’ take action to help Rohingya
We call on Aung San Suu Kyi to meet the Rohingya personally in Rakhine state as well as in Cox’s...
The only world safe from use of nuclear weapons is a world completely free of them – UN chief
The only world that is safe from the use of nuclear weapons is a world that is completely free of...
Global ‘learning crisis’ threatens future of millions young students – World Bank report
Schooling without learning is a terrible waste of precious resources and of human potential, the...
Myanmar: Video and satellite evidence shows new fires still torching Rohingya villages
Amnesty International has assessed three new videos taken inside Rakhine State as recently as...
Yemen: US-made bomb kills children in deadly strike on residential homes
The bomb that destroyed a residential building in Yemen's capital last month, killing 16...
Funding shortfall jeopardizes humanitarian response in Yemen, UN aid chief warns
Efforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, currently the world’s largest, are being...
UN officials hail establishment of Technology Bank for world’s poorest nations
United Nations officials hailed the establishment of the Technology Bank for the Least Developed...
Sustained engagement vital to address immense humanitarian needs in Syria – UN official
Sustained international attention and engagement is vital as the Syrian conflict moves into its...
Countering extremism in Middle East requires socio-economic measures, Lebanese leader tells UN
Recalling the tragic 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States that sparked the...
Security Council approves probe into ISIL’s alleged war crimes in Iraq
The United Nations Security Council authorised the establishment of an investigation team to...
Repair 'world in pieces' and create 'world at peace,' UN chief Guterres urges global leaders
Addressing the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations Headquarters,...
Over 40 million people caught in modern slavery, 152 million in child labour – UN
More than 40 million people around the world were victims of modern slavery – forced labour and...
UN scaling up assistance as number of Rohingya refugees grows to over 400,000
As the number of Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh surpasses 400,000, United Nations agencies...