Edited News | UNITED NATIONS
Landmine toll still high amid concerns over COVID-19 impact on clearance efforts. Thousands of people continue to be killed and injured every year by landmines and explosive weapons in conflicts around the world, while the COVID-19 pandemic has forced mine-clearance efforts to be scaled back, a ...
Edited News | WFP , IOM
COVID-19 pandemic is worsening the plight of millions of migrants, finds UN study. The global COVID-19 pandemic is making life much harder for millions of migrants and is expected to increase their number, two United Nations agencies said in a report published jointly on Tuesday.
Edited News | OCHA
Typhoon’s impact on Philippines hugely reduced by pre-emptive measures, UN says
Edited News | WFP , FAO
Aid agencies call for urgent action to prevent hunger crisis in famine hotspots
Edited News | UNHCR
Côte d'Ivoire: UN reports 3,000 flee abroad amid electoral violence. Several thousand people have fled from Côte d'Ivoire into neighbouring countries after a presidential election that sparked violent clashes, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.
Edited News | OHCHR , UNITED NATIONS
Belarus human rights situation under review at UN forum. Belarus’s rights record received support from some Member States and urgent calls for reform from others at a regular review at the United Nations in Geneva on Monday.
Edited News | UNICEF , OCHA , UNITED NATIONS , WFP
Yemeni children suffer record rates of acute malnutrition as funding runs low
Edited News , Press Conferences | UNOG , UNITED NATIONS
Libya’s warring sides agree permanent ceasefire at Geneva talks. Peace talks aimed at ending almost a decade of chaos in Libya reached agreement on a permanent ceasefire on Friday. Five senior officers from the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and five from the opposition Libyan...
Edited News | UNITED NATIONS
Arrival of the delegations of the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military (JMC) Commission at the United Nations in Geneva, on the fourth day of the fourth round of talks, 22 October 2020.