More than 37,000 civilians were killed in conflict last year. Women and girls accounted for one in four of these deaths – ...

Artificial intelligence promises to make life easier. With a few keystrokes, it can write emails, summarize reports, generate ...

Opium production in Afghanistan has risen fivefold in a year. According to a UN survey released on Thursday, it’s the first significant increase since the Taliban banned poppy cultivation in 2022.

Cheap drones, autonomous vessels and cyberattacks are changing the threats to the world’s shipping lanes – and the tools to counter them. At an open debate on Thursday, the Security Council is ...

Dowry is still persisting in society in one form or another. This deeply entrenched social practice continues deepen ...

NEW YORK, October 30 (IPS) - More than 37,000 civilians were killed in conflict last year. Women and girls accounted for one in four of these deaths – double their proportion in 2021 – according to ...

The UN’s top humanitarian official in Ukraine on Thursday condemned a Russian drone attack on the city of Dnipro that killed at least 13 civilians and injured 10 others at its main railway station.

At least five children were killed and two others injured in a drone attack on a market in Nyala, in Sudan’s South Darfur state, on Monday, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.

From salmon spawning grounds in Canada to coral reefs in Indonesia, ecosystems around the world are being restored at an unprecedented rate.

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday called for the 34th time for an end to the US economic, commercial and financial embargo ...

Reducing conflict is the single most effective way to tackle global hunger, the new head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) ...

As Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) surpass the 10,000 mark, the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...