3 November 2017
Politics
2 November 2017
Although the number of children under five years dying from diarrhoea each year in Afghanistan has dropped below 10,000 for the first time, the disease still claims the lives of 9,500 children, or 26 each day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday.
2 November 2017
Already struggling to cope with a dire humanitarian crisis, war-torn Yemen is now facing the fastest-growing cholera epidemic ever recorded, with some 895,000 suspected cases as of 1 November, the United Nations relief wing reported Thursday.
'Failure to broker peace' hinders solutions to displacement, UN refugee chief tells Security Council
2 November 2017
The head of the United Nations refugee agency on Thursday urged global leaders to find political solutions to the world's conflicts, if the swelling numbers of forcibly displaced people are ever to return home.
2 November 2017
Photo:Miroslav Lajčák, the President of the General Assembly (right), receives the outcome communique from Hashim Hussein, the head of the UNIDO ITPO-Bahrain and Executive Secretary of WEIF 2017 (centre), as Samir Aldarabi, Director of UNIC-Manama looks on.
1 November 2017
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and EXPO Dubai 2020 signed Wednesday a Memorandum of Understanding on strengthening joint cooperation, including hosting the World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum (WEIF) 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
1 November 2017
A day after the deadly attack in New York City, Secretary-General António Guterres spoke to Mayor Bill di Blasio and reaffirmed his solidarity with the people of New York.