Monday's World Health Day highlights a critical issue for global health: the particular vulnerabilities faced by women and girls.
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Monday's World Health Day highlights a critical issue for global health: the particular vulnerabilities faced by women and girls.
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Sunday for an investigation into the Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih which reportedly killed 18 people, including nine children.
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The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine has strongly condemned a missile strike in Kryvyi Rih on Friday which killed more than a dozen people, including at least nine children, and left several others injured.
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The blockade of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is having dire consequences for more than a million children, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Saturday.
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More than 100 million people worldwide are at risk from landmines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday, in his message for the International Day for Mine Awareness.
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Myanmar's military has continued to launch airstrikes and other attacks against opposition forces in the devastated country, one week since a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck and despite agreeing to a ceasefire, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said ...
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A global surge in cholera is threatening vulnerable people from Angola to Myanmar, fuelled by conflict, natural disasters and climate change, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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The people of Sudan are trapped in siege-like conditions "with no escape, no hope, and often forced to face unspeakable abuse," a senior official with the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday in Geneva.
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