UN Agencies and their partners are appealing for $263 million to provide humanitarian assistance to vulnerable people in Mali.
Mbaranga Gasarabwe, the Resident Coordinator at UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), spoke with Fatima Mendez about the 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is warning of two looming threats facing scores of Rohingya children in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The agency is concerned that the approaching cyclone season and continued violence could affect some 720,000 youngsters.
Bronwen Cowley has been speaking to UNICEF’s Representative in Bangladesh, Edouard Beigbeder.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has published a comprehensive guide on managing the Fall Armyworm (FAW), a crop-eating pest which originated in Central and South America.
Murielle Sarr asked Allan Hruska, Principal Technical Coordinator of FAO’s Plant Protection Division, what the new guide will achieve.
The Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says there’s reason to be optimistic that a lasting peace deal can be struck this year.
David Shearer told Matt Wells why local developments were important to securing a lasting peace across the world’s youngest country.
Since November, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has evacuated more than 1,000 extremely vulnerable refugees from Libya, providing them “with a new chance at life”.
Bronwen Cowley spoke to Cécile Pouilly, UNHCR spokesperson, for the latest update in Geneva.
UN Women released a report on Wednesday that underscores the pervasive nature of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
Two and half years after the Sustainable Development Goals, known as SDGs, were adopted, the report - Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda - assesses progress so far, through the lens of gender equality.
The presence of increasingly-deadly explosive hazards in liberated areas of Iraq are hindering efforts to rebuild and provide vital aid to families who are returning home, according to a senior manager with the UN Mine Action Service there (UNMAS).
UNMAS told UN News that its teams are working with partners in the “most complex and challenging environment imaginable”, to survey and clear these threats.
So-called “evil genius” tactics used by the ISIL, or Daesh, terrorist group, have significantly aggravated the situation.
Public outrage over recent cases of child rape in India is essential to prevent horrific abuse in the future, and to change a culture that fails to value girls.
That’s according to Dr Yasmin Ali Haque, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in India, speaking to UN News, in the aftermath of the rape of an eight-month-old baby girl at the end of last month.
