Interviews

UN peacekeepers are facing increasing threats: fatalities are the highest in a generation, equipment is often inadequate, and political processes in many places are fragile or absent. 

Within this context, the Secretary-General launched the Action for Peacekeeping Initiative (A4P) earlier this year.

It is designed to renew political support for UN peacekeeping, and to make operations more effective, safer and better designed to advance political settlements.

Countries are not doing enough to end tuberculosis – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – by 2030, warned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, at the release of the latest Global Tuberculosis Report.

The report shows that worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) cases are falling too slowly to meet the targets set by WHO’s End TB Strategy.

Sexual exploitation occurs very rarely, but it’s an “almost existential issue” for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), which is committed to tackling the scourge, the agency’s Deputy High Commissioner said on Tuesday.

Announcing measures that are designed to encourage victims to come forward, including a global telephone hotline, Kelly T. Clements said that the number of reported cases of abuse has doubled among its more than 1,000 international partners in the last year.

Millions of children are still dying from preventable or treatable causes, despite huge progress in child mortality rates over the past 25 years.

These are some of the key findings of a new report compiled by UN Agencies, which shows that 1 child is dying every 5 seconds.

Perhaps you know Olivia Wilde as Dr. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley on the American television series House, or as Ella Swensen, who worked to protect the world from aliens in the film Cowboys & Aliens.

There is a 22-year difference in life-expectancy between the people of Norway, and those of the impoverished nation of Niger in Africa, according to new data revealed on Friday in the UNDP Human Development Index (HDI).

With eight days on the job, Shireen Dodson, the new UN Ombudsman, did not set out to become a career mediator, but began to master the basics as a young child, when she diplomatically negotiated between her divorced parents.

In an interview with UN News, she explained how she would delicately negotiate separate times to sit down at her mother’s, and — later in the day — her stepmother’s table, on the key US family holiday of Thanksgiving.

With the UN imploring those fighting in Syria’s civil war and the countries backing them to prevent a “bloodbath” in the last rebel-held enclave of Idlib, the World Food Programme (WFP) is doing all it can to help civilians cope in the event of an offensive.

A major pro-Government offensive has not yet begun, but Marwa Awad, Spokesperson for WFP in Syria, told Nabil Al Midani, from UN News’s Arabic service, what they were doing to safeguard families in the line of fire.

Genocide will not be prevented from happening again until the entire international community commits to punishing “rampant impunity”, an International Criminal Court (ICC) judge said on Thursday.

Speaking at an event at the Human Rights Council in Geneva to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the Genocide Convention, Kimberly Prost told States that “our only hope is to change now…to answer atrocity with justice, not revenge”.