Efforts are under way to eradicate a neglected form of tuberculosis that has a particularly damaging impact on poor rural communities in Africa and South-East Asia, UN health experts said on Thursday.

The flow of desperate Rohingya refugees fleeing across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh is “unprecedented in terms of volume and speed”.

Without justice, there can be no sustainable peace or development in Afghanistan.

That’s according to Sima Samir, a former Minister of Women’s Affairs in the country, who was at UN Headquarters recently to talk about the whole issue of judicial rights.

The launch of an early warning system in Tuvalu will better inform residents of the Pacific island nation about oncoming cyclones and other disasters, according to a senior UN official in the region.