Four countries have completely destroyed their stockpiles of cluster munitions since 2017, and Switzerland may soon be able to say that it has done the same.
The International Day Against Nuclear Tests, marked annually on 29 August, draws attention to the plight of people impacted by the after effects of nuclear tests to rally global support to end such tests.
Parties to the conflict in Yemen may be guilty of war crimes, and a confidential list of the perpetrators has been compiled.
These are just some of the results that an independent fact-finding mission on Yemen announced on Tuesday in Geneva, following the publishing of the panel’s report.
A veteran human rights investigator said that, despite her years of experience, she was shocked by the horrific sexual violence perpetrated against Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, member of the Independent International Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar, has been talking to UN News following the release of the Mission’s report, which is based on the testimonies of hundreds of victims.
The discovery of a new confirmed case of Ebola virus in a town surrounded by armed insurgents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has highlighted the difficulty of protecting people from infection there, a top UN health official said on Friday.
Dr. Peter Salama, Deputy Director-General of Emergency Preparedness and Response at the World Health Organization (WHO), has been talking to UN News about the difficulties of just getting to Oicha town, in the east of the country.
Kofi Annan’s passing has deprived us of one of the world’s “last big moral voices”, the UN’s top official in Geneva and friend of nearly 40 years, Michael Møller, said on Saturday.
Mr Møller sat down with Michele Zaccheo and described how the former Secretary-General’s humanity infused "everything that he did, every concern that he had and every decision that he took”.
Our photo shows Mr. Annan receiving the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize which was jointly awarded to the Secretary-General and the United Nations. UN Photo/Sergey Bermeniev.
As a matriarchal society, Karen women are the cultivators and “owners” of rotation farming, the main source of income for this group of indigenous people in northern Thailand.
Meanwhile, men do the heavy lifting, like cutting trees and building huts on each plot of land.
UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, says it will be able to open the schools it operates for the coming academic term.
However, with the Agency still struggling to cope with the US decision to cut funding by $300 million, the prospects beyond September are still very uncertain.
Speaking to Reem Abaza from UN News, UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness explained why, despite the worrying shortfall, not opening the schools was never an option.
Diplomatic solutions on the Korean Peninsula will hopefully give way to a surge in humanitarian support for the most needy and vulnerable in North Korea, the UN Resident Coordinator there tells UN News.
Officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), North Korea shows “visible optimism” over a more peaceful and prosperous future, says Tapan Mishra. However, humanitarian funding remains low, with Member States providing only 20 to 30 per cent of requested funds over the last three years.
It has been 15 years since the terrorist attack on the UN compound at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad: “the darkest day in our lives at the United Nations”, in the words of the Secretary-General at the time, Kofi Annan.
The truck bomb killed 22 international and local staff, including the top UN representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
