Edited News | FAO
More than one in four Ukrainian rural farming households has had to reduce or completely stop agricultural production as a result of the war, according to a recent assessment by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The impact has been considerable both in terms of income...
Edited News | UNHCR
Malaysia’s forced return of asylum-seekers to Myanmar has meant that hundreds of Myanmar nationals have been “sent back against their will” to the troubled country in the last two months, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
Edited News | UNICEF
As missile attacks by Russian armed forces have increasingly struck cities across Ukraine during the month of October, targeting civilian infrastructure as people are taking children to school, the need for child protection services and access to safe spaces for children has never been felt more...
Edited News | OHCHR , UNHCR , UNITED NATIONS , WFP , WHO , WMO
At the bi-weekly press briefing in Geneva, Laura Turner, WFP’s Deputy Country Director in Somalia, and Dr. Mamunur Rahman Malik, WHO Representative in Somalia, made the following statements on the country's unprecedented food and nutrition crisis.
Edited News | OHCHR
At the bi-weekly press briefing in Geneva, UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani made the following statement on Tigray.
Edited News | OHCHR
A month after demonstrations erupted across Iran, the unabated violent response by security forces against protesters, and reports of arbitrary arrests and the killing and detention of children are deeply worrying according to UN Human Rights office.
Edited News , Images | OHCHR
Volker Türk began his four-year mandate as the eighth United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this morning (17 October 2022) at the Palais Wilson in Geneva.
Edited News | OCHA
Urgently needed aid relief has been delivered to people in areas of north-east Ukraine recently reclaimed from Russian control, UN humanitarians said on Friday. “More than 73,000 people, and that's nearly half of the population in the retaken areas in Kharkivska oblast have received food...
Edited News , Press Conferences | OCHA
Publication of the Trade and Development Report 2022 STORY: UNCTAD Trade and Development Annual Report 2022 Speakers: Rebeca Grynspan, UNCTAD Secretary-General Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies