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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 the shape of "UN@80".

More than a decade after Asian and Pacific nations launched a campaign to ensure every life is counted, millions across the region still remain "invisible" - born, living, and dying without formal recognition.

As the Central African Republic (CAR) prepares for upcoming elections, the country continues to grapple with a fragile security and humanitarian context, the UN Security Council heard on Thursday.

The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday.

ATLANTA, USA, Jun 26 (IPS) - Chest thumping "Mission Accomplished" claims by President Trump that he ordered the world's biggest conventional bombs to be dropped on a sleeping nation of 90 million people, were premature. To top it off he bragged that ...

When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East.

BHUBANESWAR/AHMEDABAD, India, Jun 26 (IPS) - As Deviben Dhaundhaliya, 45, a streetside seller of artificial jewelry, waits for her husband Devabhai to arrive and help her shift their iron-frame mobile 'shop' to the Bhadra Fort open-air marketplace in ...

KABUL, Jun 25 (IPS) - It was a sunny winter day in Kabul. I decided to step out and take a stroll around my surroundings. With my long dress and hijab on, I left the house. Since I was not too far from home, I did not need the company of a Mahram, a ...

ADDIS ABABA / NAIROBI, Jun 25 (IPS) - Imagine investing US$14 billion, or even slightly less, to achieve universal literacy in 17 African countries where more than half the adult population still cannot read or write. Pair that with another US$36 ...