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1 Nov 16
Global cities are likely to fall short on some key Sustainable Development Goals including child malnutrition and access to drinking water, housing and sanitation, a UK think-tank has warned.
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1 Nov 16
Humanitarian aid for refugees in Uganda increased the real incomes of host communities by up to $1,100 annually, a study by the World Food Programme has shown.
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27 Oct 16
The United Nations has called for action to tackle what it called the mounting sovereign debt crises in many developing countries, which put achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals at...
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24 Oct 16
The United Nations has adopted an action plan to guide international policy on managing cities for the coming decades.
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14 Oct 16
Former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres will become United Nations secretary-general on 31 December following endorsement from the organisation’s general assembly yesterday.
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12 Oct 16
The United Nations is to launch a new platform dedicated to scaling up public-private partnerships and other financial innovations with a view to channelling funding toward the Sustainable...
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12 Oct 16
Governments everywhere should tax sugary drinks in order to reduce the 11 million deaths every year linked to unhealthy diets, the World Health Organisation has said.
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11 Oct 16
The United Nations and the Haitian government have appealed for $120m in aid to support up to 2.1 million people that have been affected by Hurricane Matthew.
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7 Oct 16
United Nations human rights experts have urged governments to eliminate tax secrecy and offshore tax evasion after a fresh tax leak named the directors of several secretive firms in the Bahamas.
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6 Oct 16
The world will need another 69 million teachers if every child is to have the opportunity to go to school by 2030, the United Nations has warned.
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6 Oct 16
Former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres is to be the next United Nations secretary general, the organisation’s security council have agreed.
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29 Sep 16
The European Union’s budget chief Kristalina Georgieva has entered the race to become United Nations secretary general after fellow Bulgarian Irina Bokova failed to win the needed support.
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28 Sep 16
China, India and Russia are the world’s deadliest countries for outdoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organisation.
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26 Sep 16
India, the world’s fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, will formally ratify the world’s historic climate deal next month, prime minister Narendra Modi has announced.
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23 Sep 16
The historic global climate deal brokered in Paris in 2015 is likely to come into force by the end of the year, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon has said.
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22 Sep 16
The United Nations has warned of growing fears of a fresh sovereign debt crisis as poorer states that borrowed heavily in good economic times struggle to weather lower levels of growth.
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21 Sep 16
Almost $130m worth of UK aid money is to be spent on returning refugees to war-torn countries like Somalia and ensuring they do not travel on to Europe.
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21 Sep 16
Digitising taxes in Tanzania could boost the country’s revenues by half a billion dollars every year, according to a United Nations report.
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19 Sep 16
Governments spent almost $14bn of aid meant for the world’s poorest people within their own borders last year, according to the ONE Campaign’s annual data report.
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7 Sep 16
A United Nations report has unveiled the “staggering” cost of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, where the economy might otherwise be twice its current size.
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6 Sep 16
The international community is failing to achieve major global education targets with the poorest nations worst effected, according to UNESCO.
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30 Aug 16
Former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres has topped the third ballot in the race to succeed Ban Ki Moon as head of the United Nations.
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24 Aug 16
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has underscored a critical shortfall in funding as it prepares for a significant anticipated displacement of people when pro-government Iraqi forces attempt...
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19 Aug 16
The United Nations has made its first public admission of blame for its role in a cholera outbreak that took hold in Haiti following the catastrophic earthquake in 2010, and has since killed around...
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17 Aug 16
Around 200,000 refugees in Uganda are to have their aid halved as funding shortages and increased arrivals from South Sudan force the aid operation to focus only on those with the greatest need.
1 Nov 16Global cities are likely to fall short on some key Sustainable Development Goals including child malnutrition and access to drinking water, housing and sanitation, a UK think-tank has warned.
1 Nov 16Humanitarian aid for refugees in Uganda increased the real incomes of host communities by up to $1,100 annually, a study by the World Food Programme has shown.
27 Oct 16The United Nations has called for action to tackle what it called the mounting sovereign debt crises in many developing countries, which put achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals at...
24 Oct 16The United Nations has adopted an action plan to guide international policy on managing cities for the coming decades.
14 Oct 16Former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres will become United Nations secretary-general on 31 December following endorsement from the organisation’s general assembly yesterday.
12 Oct 16The United Nations is to launch a new platform dedicated to scaling up public-private partnerships and other financial innovations with a view to channelling funding toward the Sustainable...
12 Oct 16Governments everywhere should tax sugary drinks in order to reduce the 11 million deaths every year linked to unhealthy diets, the World Health Organisation has said.
11 Oct 16The United Nations and the Haitian government have appealed for $120m in aid to support up to 2.1 million people that have been affected by Hurricane Matthew.
7 Oct 16United Nations human rights experts have urged governments to eliminate tax secrecy and offshore tax evasion after a fresh tax leak named the directors of several secretive firms in the Bahamas.
6 Oct 16The world will need another 69 million teachers if every child is to have the opportunity to go to school by 2030, the United Nations has warned.
6 Oct 16Former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres is to be the next United Nations secretary general, the organisation’s security council have agreed.
29 Sep 16The European Union’s budget chief Kristalina Georgieva has entered the race to become United Nations secretary general after fellow Bulgarian Irina Bokova failed to win the needed support.
28 Sep 16China, India and Russia are the world’s deadliest countries for outdoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organisation.
26 Sep 16India, the world’s fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, will formally ratify the world’s historic climate deal next month, prime minister Narendra Modi has announced.
22 Sep 16The United Nations has warned of growing fears of a fresh sovereign debt crisis as poorer states that borrowed heavily in good economic times struggle to weather lower levels of growth.
21 Sep 16Almost $130m worth of UK aid money is to be spent on returning refugees to war-torn countries like Somalia and ensuring they do not travel on to Europe.
21 Sep 16Digitising taxes in Tanzania could boost the country’s revenues by half a billion dollars every year, according to a United Nations report.
19 Sep 16Governments spent almost $14bn of aid meant for the world’s poorest people within their own borders last year, according to the ONE Campaign’s annual data report.
7 Sep 16A United Nations report has unveiled the “staggering” cost of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, where the economy might otherwise be twice its current size.
6 Sep 16The international community is failing to achieve major global education targets with the poorest nations worst effected, according to UNESCO.
24 Aug 16The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has underscored a critical shortfall in funding as it prepares for a significant anticipated displacement of people when pro-government Iraqi forces attempt...
19 Aug 16The United Nations has made its first public admission of blame for its role in a cholera outbreak that took hold in Haiti following the catastrophic earthquake in 2010, and has since killed around...
17 Aug 16Around 200,000 refugees in Uganda are to have their aid halved as funding shortages and increased arrivals from South Sudan force the aid operation to focus only on those with the greatest need.
