2019

Airports General Manager, Amin Jamaan, said Saturday that more than 300,000 patients need to travel for treatment outside Yemen. He pointed out that this must be done by the United Nations. Jamaan added that the media campaigns…

The death toll from heavy rains caused floods and landslides in eastern Japan rose to eight on Saturday, two weeks after the same areas were hit by Typhoon Hagibis, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation reported. Landslides swept through…

Around two-thirds of sexually active women surveyed in a new UN study indicated that although they wished to avoid or postpone having children, they had stopped relying on contraception out of concern for how it was affecting their…

Sunaina lives in Majhi, a village of 104 people in Nepal’s impoverished Terai region. Huts fashioned of mud, thatch and straw stand in a row along the shoulder of a dirt road that carves through rice fields, where Sunaina, and the majority…

Protests in cities across the world in recent days show that “people are hurting and want to be heard” by political leaders who must now address a “growing deficit of trust”, said the UN chief on Friday. …

 Ministry of Human Rights on Wednesday held the United Nations responsible for the crimes committed by Saudi-led aggression coalition against prisoners of the Yemeni army. The ministry said, in a statement, that the torture of three…

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Achim Steiner affirmed on Wednesday that a Yemeni child under the age of five dies every 12 minutes in Yemen due to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war. Steiner said on his Twitter…

 Mass demonstrations continue in Chile in protest over increased public transport fares. The death toll rose to 18, as a result of violence and the intervention of security forces. Protests across the country began about a week ago,…

The international community has a responsibility and legal obligation to compel Israel to end its 52 year-long “occu-annexation” of Palestinian territory and remove barriers preventing Palestinian self-determination, a UN independent…

Somalia has made “enormous strides on its path to peace and stability”, and Somali women’s participation in peace and security efforts has “helped advance society towards an inclusive and peaceful future”, UN Deputy Secretary-General…