People displaced by conflict in Myanmar are “hopeful” for the future despite the “appalling” conditions in which many of them live.

That’s the assessment of the UN’s director of humanitarian operations who has just returned from a visit to the Asian country.

A quarter of all Afghans killed last year were children, many of them targeted in hospitals and schools.

That’s according to the UN’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, who has been on a fact-finding mission in the country this week.

An all-female UN Indian police unit is leaving Liberia on Sunday after nine years of helping to stabilize the country.

It was the first force of its kind in the history of the United Nations peacekeeping operations.

The world is witnessing the beginning of the African industrialization “movement,” according to the Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).