2019

The recycling of plastic waste in India is boosting the incomes of impoverished women and helping build roads and fire cement furnaces, thanks to support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).…

Security in Mali has become critical, with unprecedented incidents of communal violence and increasingly more deadly terror attacks, reported a UN human rights expert on Monday, following a 10-day visit to the country.…

The UN is determined to lead by example when it comes to the rights of people with disabilities, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a message to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which falls on 3…

Plants, which make up 80 percent of the food we eat, and produce 98 percent of the oxygen we breathe, are “under constant and increasing threat from pests and diseases”, the UN food agency, FAO, warned on Tuesday, at an event at…

Nearly half a million children in eastern Ukraine continue to face “grave risks” to their physical health and psychological well-being, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday. Eastern Ukraine…

The city of Aden has witnessed a series of assassinations carried out by tools loyal to Saudi-Emirati occupation. Local sources reported on Monday that a construction material dealer was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Monday…

Nine Syrian citizens, most of them children, were killed and 10 others wounded on Monday when the Turkish forces waged an artillery attack on residential areas in Syria, according to Syrian local media. The attack hit the areas in Tall…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Sunday said that 4,940 Somali refugees have left Yemen and returned to Somalia since 2017. UNHCR indicated, in a press release, that 131 Somali refugees have been evacuated from…

The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a tweet on Sunday that "more 18 million Yemenis live in areas at risk of malaria, while 10.8 million live in high-risk areas. “In 2018 and 2019, our efforts continued to strengthen malaria…

The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a tweet on Sunday that "more 18 million Yemenis live in areas at risk of malaria, while 10.8 million live in high-risk areas. “In 2018 and 2019, our efforts continued to strengthen malaria…