International Reports

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. …

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…

Since 2015, approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans have fled their country as the Latin American nation's political, humanitarian and economic crisis drags on, creating one of the “direst” displacement crises in the world, the UN…

In his annual message for UN Day this Thursday, Secretary-General António Guterres issued a reminder of the role the Organization should be playing, focusing on the the real problems of real people, as a “shared moral anchor” amid…