Uneven post-pandemic recovery widens gap between rich and poor
Europe dominates the top rankings as development in half of the world’s poorest nations falls below pre-pandemic levels.
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Europe dominates the top rankings as development in half of the world’s poorest nations falls below pre-pandemic levels.
The aid plan is meant to fund the work of 163 organizations inside Sudan and 83 others in refugee-hosting countries.
The fighting that broke out last month caused the ranks of those who need humanitarian aid and protection to swell to 24.6 million, or slightly more than half of Sudan's 49 million.
Sudan's unraveling forced humanitarian aid organizations, including those with staff killed by fighting, to suspend operations, despite millions of civilians in great need.
As the continent faces a raft of complications, the African Union's ambitious goal of tackling structural root causes and drivers of conflict for sustainable development is in doubt.
Almost half of the world's 2.2 billion children face an "extremely high" potential for deadly exposure to multiple shocks, according to UNICEF.
U.N. officials released a 2021 humanitarian plan that projects a 40% increase in people who need aid from a year earlier.
The U.N. General Assembly urged all nations to join in ensuring universal access to medical supplies, drugs, future vaccines and testing for the pandemic.
Children who grow up in countries least responsible for global warming suffer twice as many health problems as wealthier nations that pollute the most.
Six nations pushed for more accountability in U.N. peacekeeping at a meeting on progress towards ending mismanagement, sexual abuse and other violence.
Incoming envoy Kelly Craft took up her new job issuing a terse statement while declining to take questions from reporters.
Farming, logging, mining and other human activities add to climate impacts on land, costing up to 17% of global GDP.
Hundreds of millions of youth are at risk of contracting water-borne diseases because more countries suffer from conflicts.
The Human Rights Council began with warnings of broken norms despite some powerful movements for social justice.
With demands growing for the U.N. chief to appoint an investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder, a review by Arete News found just eight previous instances of such an order.
A new review of U.N. whistleblowing policies and practices by the U.N.'s Joint Inspection Unit showed little improvement from retaliation cases reported more than a decade earlier.