Reforms passed by Ecuador’s National Assembly and signed by President Daniel Noboa severely threaten children’s rights and fail to protect children who are recruited or used by organized crime groups, ...

Police search people bus passengers during the state of emergency in Santa Ana, El Salvador, June 30, 2022. © 2022 MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Interviews with police officers and internal police documents ...

And my own country did not have a space for me.

The risk of harmful algal blooms can be reduced. The biggest drivers of the increase are farm fertilizer and climate change.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, has reported.

It wasn’t an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers – from Times Square to East River – following a route that traced ...

A team of geoscientists suggest new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.

Honeyed words seem to appease the US president, but it’s dangerous if he ends up thinking he can do anything he wants.

Dans les collines verdoyantes de l’est congolais, les récits se suivent et se ressemblent : maisons brûlées, familles déchirées, femmes violées. En visite dans la région de Goma, ravagée par les viole ...

The public isn’t enthusiastic about increasing disability benefit spending – but they’re by no means in favour of cuts either.

Even the memorial to Queen Victoria, undoubtedly the most commemorated woman in British history, is relatively modest in scale compared to this new project.

The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has raged since April 2023. It’s turned Sudan into the site of one of the world’s most catastrophic humanitarian and displacement ...