Asia

North Korea’s food production hit by the worst drought since 2001.
FAO/Cristina Coslet

DPRK drought affecting food production: FAO

20 July 2017
General News

Food production in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been severely damaged by the worst drought in the country since 2001, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Thursday.

Audio -
UN Resident Coordinator based in Delhi, Yuri Afanasiev, at UN Radio Studio in New York.
UN News/Matt Wells

Education, women’s empowerment “top priorities” for UN in India

19 July 2017
General News

In order to meet the challenges of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), India should prioritize women’s empowerment and educatio

Audio -
Ms. Pratibha Mehta, UN Resident Coordinator in Tajikistan, addresses the audience at the High-level event on “Human security and its contribution to Agenda 2030.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

“Improvements are astonishing” in “very poor” region of Tajikistan

13 July 2017
General News

“Astonishing” improvements came about when five UN agencies joined forces in an integrated manner to help transform one impoverished valley in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan.

Audio -
Members of the Guatemalan contingent of MINUSTAH.
UN Photo/Marco Domino (file)

UN Gender Focus: gender balance in peacekeeping, women in Uganda and Rakhine women

13 July 2017
UN Gender Focus

Greater gender balance needed in peacekeeping, says UN chief

Audio -
9'57"
Myanmar Rohingyas displaced by violence in 2012 in the village of In Bar Yi, Rakhine State.
Julia Wallace/IRIN

Myanmar: Muslim, Rakhine women bond over literacy classes

11 July 2017
General News

Women belonging to different religious minorities in the restive Rakhine State in Myanmar are mending fences as they learn to read, write and sew, the UN said on Friday.

Audio -
A child with severe diarrhoea or cholera receives treatment at the Sab'een Hospital in Sana'a, Yemen,on 12 May 2017. © UNICEF/UN065873/Alzekri

Yemen’s cholera epidemic may be levelling off, says WHO

27 June 2017
General News

The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has dropped for the first time as efforts continue to resist the nationwide epidemic that UN agencies have described as the world's worst outbreak.

Audio -
Rice drying in Sri Lanka, March 2017. The country’s staple food production dropped by almost 40 percent from the last year's output.
FAO

Sri Lanka food production hit hard by drought, heavy rains: FAO

22 June 2017
General News

Nearly one million people in Sri Lanka are at risk of going hungry due to severe drought followed by heavy rainfall, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Thursday.

Audio -
Secretary-General António Guterres (left) meets with President Emomali Rahmon of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Nakib Murodov

National efforts vital to ensure effective implementation of Global Goals, UN chief says in Tajikistan

12 June 2017
Highlighting the integrated, indivisible and universal nature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has urged all stakeholders around the world to work together to ensure the promises of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are brought to life.
View of downtown Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
World Bank/Shynar Jetpissova

Inclusive development 'best form of preventing conflict,' UN chief tells Central Asia summit

9 June 2017
Secretary-General António Guterres today stressed the importance of partnership between the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in achieving global development goals and combating some of today's key threats to peace and security, such as terrorism.
In the wake of Cyclone Mora, flood waters flattened many homes in this village in Kalutara, Sri Lanka.
IOM

“Fabric” of Sri Lanka torn apart by deadly storm: UNICEF

7 June 2017
General News

Much of Sri Lanka’s infrastructure has been torn apart by the deadly Cyclone Mora which brought floods and mudslides in its wake at the end of May.

Audio -