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United Nations (UN)

  • 29 Apr 2018
    6m

    Rohingya refugees demand citizenship

    Representatives of the UN Security Council have been told by Rohingya refugees to demand that they are given citizenship in their native Myanmar and allowed to return following ethnic violence.

  • 31 Aug 2017
    5m

    UK disability rights criticised by UN inquiry

    A United Nations inquiry has accused the government of failing to uphold the rights of disabled people in a whole range of areas, from health and housing to work and education.

  • 18 Mar 2017
    2m

    Famine threat in South Sudan

    More than one and a half million people have been forced to flee their homes in South Sudan over the last few months – in what the UN says is the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis.

  • 11 Mar 2017
    3m

    The ‘largest humanitarian crisis’ since 1945

    Up to 20 million people are at risk from famine in parts of the Middle East and Africa: the world stands at a critical moment in history.

  • 4 Jan 2017
    3m

    UN officials dance with FARC guerillas

    United Nations officials in Colombia have got into trouble after they were filmed dancing with leftist FARC rebels while they were supposed to be monitoring a peace deal.

  • 15 Dec 2016
    4m

    Syria: Stephen O’Brien interview

    Interview with Stephen O’Brien in New York, the head of Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief at the United Nations.

  • 29 Nov 2016
    4m

    Aleppo: Jan Egeland interview

    Interview with Jan Egeland, from the UN’s taskforce on humanitarian access in Syria.

  • 16 Feb 2016

    Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies, UN confirm

    The former head of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, dies at 93.

  • 4 Feb 2016

    Billions pledged for Syrian refugees as peace talks collapse

    A London conference aims to raise over £6 billion to help Syria’s neighbours provide for thousands of refugees. But in Geneva separate peace talks hoping to end the Syrian conflict collapse.

  • 19 Jun 2015
    Jonathan Miller

    Israel’s Mark Regev: UN war crimes inquiry ‘a kangaroo court’

    With its report into last summer’s Gaza conflict expected shortly, Israel repeats its claim that the UN inquiry into whether war crimes were committed in there is a “kangaroo court”.

  • 3 Jun 2015
    Krishnan Guru-Murthy

    Shashi Tharoor on politics, India and his wife’s death

    Shashi Tharoor is one of India’s best known politicians, with international recognition as an acclaimed author and former UN diplomat…

  • 20 Apr 2015

    Four Unicef staff killed in Somalia bomb attack

    At least nine people, including four Unicef staff, are killed in an attack that has been claimed by militant group al-Shabaab in Somalia.

  • 9 Mar 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Stephen O’Brien: UN opts for ‘pretty good candidate for important job’

    Too often UN appointments are made entirely on political patronage and not at all on competence. This time the former has been tempered by the latter.

  • 22 Feb 2015
    Alex Thomson

    Is cease-fire in Ukraine really non-existent?

    I heard the sound of shelling east of the southern port of Mariupol today and there were reports of fighting around Horlivka north of Donetsk.

  • 20 Feb 2015

    Trapped in rubble: Gaza’s housing crisis

    More than 100,000 homes remain damaged or destroyed in Gaza six months after a conflict with Israel, as lack of funds and a blockade continue to hamper reconstruction.

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