UN officials have welcomed Saudi Arabia’s decision to lift a ban prohibiting women from driving.

The announcement was made on Tuesday and will come into effect in July 2018.

If you thought the work of a UN translator was straightforward, then think again.

Neither the rich nor the poor are immune to the effects of heart problems.

That’s one of the messages that Dr Etienne Krug, director for the management of noncommunicable diseases at the World Health Organization, is stressing as World Heart Day is marked, on 29 September.

Ending famine is “completely achievable” and is one of the big challenges that the new UN relief chief is looking forward to tackling during his time in charge of the global body’s humanitarian effort.

On-going violence both against civilians and aid workers trying to protect them, has left the Central African Republic (CAR) “on the brink of a humanitarian crisis”.

The Central African Republic (CAR) is facing a multifaceted array of problems that do not have a single clear solution.

Governments must allocate more resources towards stamping out online child pornography and child sexual exploitation, issues that affect all countries worldwide.

More aid is getting through to civilians caught up in the Syrian war, but there’s been a worrying escalation in the number of attacks against them and humanitarian workers that must stop, a senior UN adviser said on Thursday.

The world has every interest in managing migration better, given the expanding global population and the huge increase in people on the move.

The UN has reached an “important moment” where it is shifting from a reactive approach to peacekeeping, towards greater preventative measures.

That’s according to Charles Jalloh, who is an international law professor and member of the International Law Commission at the UN.