Sharing successful ideas across national borders to help transform developing countries in the southern hemisphere remains a challenge, but it’s “really making a difference”. That’s according to Jorge Chediek, director of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation, and Envoy of the Secretary-General on the issue. He spoke with Laura Quinones of UN News, about the upcoming Global South-South Development Expo taking place back where it all began, at UN Headquarters in New York on Wednesday.

People are “used to the suffering we see in Afghanistan,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation, Dominique Burgeon says, and the country needs urgent support to combat a major crisis in the face of drought and conflict.

Not many school commutes involve having to go through checkpoints and body searches, but that’s the daily reality for some 163 Palestinian youngsters in Hebron, a bustling city in the southern part of the West Bank. 

As the United Nations marks its annual 16-day campaign against gender-based violence and the world continues to be shaken with the #MeToo movement, UNFPA – the UN's sexual and reproductive health agency – is shining the spotlight on the daily sexual harassment of women and girls using public transportation in Sri Lanka.

Renewed violence in Central African Republic (CAR) that has included the torching of displacement camps and set back aid efforts to parts of the embattled country will not diminish the international community’s “duty of hope”, the UN top humanitarian official there has said.

Drought in Afghanistan has left more than 3.6 million people “barely surviving” and displaced some 250,000 people from rural areas, the UN’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan said on Monday. Toby Lanzer told Daniel Johnson of UN News, that 2019 could be "make or break" for the country. 

Take-home pay around the world is growing at its slowest rate since the 2008 global financial crisis, the head of the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Monday.

While the Asia-Pacific region has made “spectacular success” over the years, the region must “vastly accelerate” efforts if it is to meet the sustainable development agenda by 2030. Deputy Executive Secretary for Sustainable Development at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Kaveh Zahedi, spoke with UN News’ Vibhu Mishra.

The use of anti-personnel mines has “dramatically decreased” in recent decades, a leading expert on the munitions said on Tuesday, amid concerns about the high number of civilian casualties in conflict zones. Amelie Chayer from UN partner organization the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, told UN News how the international community to tackling the issue.

On this World Children’s Day, when kids across the globe unite for their rights, Emmy-Nominated actress Millie Bobby Brown has been named the newest United Nations Children’s Fund