
'Multiple challenges' undermine A.U.'s flagship peace plan for 2030
Facing a raft of complications, the A.U. goal of tackling root causes of conflict for sustainable development is in doubt.
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Facing a raft of complications, the A.U. goal of tackling root causes of conflict for sustainable development is in doubt.
Some 129,000 people are 'staring death in the eyes' while 11.9 million children under 5 could face acute malnutrition.
A new report finds a clear connection between more violence and corruption as the world becomes a less peaceful place.
Most of the world's 8 billion inhabitants prefer to stay within their nation of birth, but almost 1-in-20 have left that behind.
Drought, floods, disease outbreaks and a global food crisis add pressure for real action at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt.
With 50 million 'a step away from starvation,' humanitarian groups calculate a person dies of hunger every four seconds.
The U.N. took up a proposal calling for cease-fires in conflict zones to allow deliveries of coronavirus vaccines.
The top American diplomat rebuked the U.N. Human Rights Council a day after it commissioned a report on racism and police brutality.
East Africa faces the worst invasion of desert locust swarms in decades from a new generation of the world’s oldest and most destructive migratory pest.
A human rights treaty helped make children healthier, but they still face threats like climate change and online abuse.
Maritime piracy and armed robbery have fallen by 24% so far this year. Africa's Gulf of Guinea remains a 'high risk area.'
The Trump administration's withdrawal of U.S. funding for Palestinian refugees could create a huge humanitarian crisis.
Hundreds of millions of youth are at risk of contracting water-borne diseases because more countries suffer from conflicts.
New ethnic clashes in the south of the country and violence along a border region displaced more than 1 million people.
The diplomatic 'rock star' who spent virtually all his career as a U.N. administrator and personified globalism has died.
A third of the world’s fish stocks are overfished, FAO said, and 35% of what's caught never makes it one someone's plate.