The UN Secretary-General has instructed agencies, funds and programmes to pause all activities in Sa’ada governorate in Yemen ...

The forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the northern part of the West Bank is escalating at an alarming pace, ...

Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria during the Assad family’s rule, which stretches back to the early 1970s. A ...

Two mass graves likely containing the bodies of migrants have been discovered in Libya, highlighting the ongoing, deadly ...

As the Israeli military completed its withdrawal at the weekend from a key security corridor in Gaza that had cut the enclave ...

Globally, 122 million girls are out of school, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).  Of those, 2.5 million are banned from education in Afghanistan.Somaya ...

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, called on Monday for Israel and Hamas to ensure that all people they are holding are treated humanely.

The terrorist group Da’esh, also known as ISIL, remains a serious global security threat despite years of sustained efforts to dismantle its operations, UN counter-terrorism officials warned during a ...

The head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA underscored its commitment to assist a population whose rights “continue to be ...

The US pause in foreign assistance funding has created “confusion” in the vital work of community HIV prevention, despite a ...

In a significant move towards eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons programme, the head of the UN-backed international ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern ...