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With pockets of relative safety emerging in Sudan, over 1.3 million Sudanese people -- including one million who were internally displaced and over 300,000 refugees -- have returned home, according to UN agencies.

This Friday marks the first observation of the International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent, following a declaration last year by the UN General Assembly.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has again sounded the alarm over the catastrophic and rapidly deteriorating conditions in the Gaza Strip as Israeli military operations continue to cause death, displacement and ...

In the centre of war-torn Gaza, UN staff continue to work despite the "unprecedented" destruction and suffering around them, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Head of Office.

The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) has concluded at United Nations Headquarters in New York following a week-and-a-half of substantive discussion between Member States, civil society representatives and UN agencies.

"People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."

Amid growing geopolitical turbulence, the United Nations is deepening its collaboration with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to help address some of the world's most complex and protracted conflicts, from Gaza and Sudan to Myanmar and . ...

Nations are pursuing underwater exploration for highly sought-after rare earth minerals, but the head of the UN's International Seabed Authority (ISA) said the deep-sea belongs to no single country or corporation as efforts are underway to ensure ...

In a dramatic escalation of a long-standing border dispute, a deadly exchange of fire between Thailand and Cambodia killed at least 11 civilians and a soldier on Thursday, according to news reports. Both states are claiming the other side fired first ...

After nearly three decades on the frontlines of UN's peace operations - from Timor-Leste's turbulent independence referendum to Western Sahara's protracted ceasefire and Cyprus' frozen conflict - Colin Stewart is leaving the Organization with his ...