New York – On International Women’s Day, UNDP and UN Women launched the Gender Justice Platform to leverage their partnership on gender justice. Since 2020, UN Women and UNDP have joined…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The war in Ukraine is a “child rights crisis” where education is under attack, nearly 100 youngsters have been killed in just the last month, and…
A new UN-led push to prevent an arms race in outer space has received wide-ranging support and participation from civil society and Member States – including all five permanent members of the…
Tareq Abu Hamad is the first Jerusalem Palestinian to reach a senior position in an Israeli government ministry. Now, as director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, he describes…
Religious and spiritual traditions have, for millennia, provided beliefs, practices, rituals, services and communities where individuals gather to make sense of life, support one another, and seek the transcendent. Recent…
Intimate partner violence has been on the rise with the COVID-19 pandemic. One in four women and one in ten menexperience violence in an intimate relationship. A common result of this violence is,…
STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — They found no trace of a mythical sea monster, no sign of mobsters in cement shoes or long-lost treasure chests. But scuba divers who spent a…
America is enduring its worst baby formula shortage in decades. America is enduring its worst baby formula shortage in decades. Baby formula has been running low all over the United…
The United Nations continues to explore all options to reach civilians affected by Russia’s brutal assault on Ukraine, deputy humanitarian affairs chief Joyce Msuya said in an update to the…
The top UN official in the Middle East has urged Israel to halt all settlement activity following the latest approval given to new construction in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, announced…