Garment factories around the world which have signed up to implement UN-backed labour standards may simply stop investing in ...

The Smurfs are back – and this time they are smurfing up a global storm. Teaming up with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and ...

Following the deaths of several children in an Israeli strike on Palestinians waiting in line for nutritional supplements in ...

Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000, ...

When Natalia Kanem reflects on her eight-year tenure at the helm of the UN reproductive health agency, she doesn’t begin with ...

Spacious paddocks, green pastures, and a devoted all-female staff: on Long Island, a strip of land surrounded by the Atlantic ...

Haiti has been caught in a vicious and unending cycle. First, gang violence expanded westward into the Artibonite and Centre ...

The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep dismay over the “unconscionable” killing of children during an ...

Top UN human rights officials have voiced serious concern over the imposition of sanctions by the United States targeting ...

A chaotic wave of returnees from Iran and Pakistan is straining Afghanistan’s already fragile capacity under Taliban rule and ...

Sudan’s brutal civil war is pushing more children towards the brink of starvation, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported ...

Systematic rape and sexual violence are being used as weapons of war in Darfur, the International Criminal Court (ICC) warned ...