International relations, regional cooperation and agreements.
The Minister of Economy signs three agreements with the French ambassador to support development efforts
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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated that it remains deeply concerned about the ongoing impact of hostilities on healthcare and people’s access to essential services.
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The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza, including aid workers, their buildings, and their property, remain vulnerable to Israeli airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire, and casualties have been reported…
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The humanitarian situation in Lebanon is being pushed further into crisis as hostilities continue between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants – and essential services and healthcare are targeted.
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Yemen remains gripped by one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with 22 million – out of a population of 35 million – requiring assistance.
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United Nations agencies reported that the Ebola virus continues to spread in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the number of cases among children expected to rise in the coming days.
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As the Bundibugyo strain continues to spread in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, UN agencies warned on Friday that more children could be affected by the Ebola outbreak in the days ahead.
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The opening of Haiti’s first “women’s houses”, with the support of the State and the UN, marks progress in caring for victims of sexual violence in a country where gang assaults keep multiplying.
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The war is killing ever further from Ukraine’s front line. With more than 2,000 civilian casualties in a single month, the country has recorded its heaviest toll since April 2022, in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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More civilians were killed and injured in Ukraine in May than in any other month in the past four years, UN investigators said on Friday in their latest update.
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Every day, safe blood helps save the lives of women experiencing childbirth complications, accident victims, cancer patients and people living with chronic diseases.
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The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is continuing to spread with a spike in child infections an increasingly likely scenario in the days ahead, UN agencies said on Friday.
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External funding cuts, a backlash against human rights, and chronic under-investment in HIV prevention and community services are threatening to reverse years of hard-won progress in the AIDS response, a UN report…
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A new UN reportwarns that reduced external funding, waning interest in human rights, and chronic underinvestment in HIV prevention programs and community services all threaten to undo the progress that has been made…
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Haiti has opened its first State-supported safe house for survivors of sexual violence with support from the UN, marking a significant step in responding to the growing crisis affecting women and girls.
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The United Nations continues to monitor developments amid conflicting reports on Friday of a possible ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran, the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General said in New York.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres voiced concern over reports of settler violence in the occupied West Bank, with OCHA reporting that attacks causing casualties and property damage this year have exceeded previous levels.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, launched the "Global Alliance for Human Rights" with the aim of bringing together people from different sectors, regions, and generations, instilling hope, strengthening cooperation, and fostering collective action in this field.
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The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has launched a Global Alliance for Human Rights, a broad coalition aimed at placing the issue at the heart of decision-making, when conflict levels have reached a record high amid…
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Gender equality agency UN Women is “gravely concerned” by the arrest of at least 30 women in Herat city last weekend in Afghanistan for allegedly violating dress requirements imposed by Taliban authorities.
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Violence spread across Belfast following a shocking knife attack allegedly carried out by a Sudanese asylum seeker on Monday, triggering a wave of anti-immigration unrest.
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As military tensions between Iran and the United States have escalated sharply in recent days, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Thursday for the parties to fully respect the…
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Genocides do not begin with massacres. They begin with words — words that divide, single out enemies and dehumanise, circulating first in conversations and then on social media before sometimes erupting into real violence.
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UNHCR released its annual “Global Trends” report, showing forced displacement worldwide fell last year for the first time in a decade while remaining at an “unacceptably” high level.
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UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday hosted the launch of the “Muscat Plan of Action”, aimed at empowering traditional leaders and indigenous peoples to counter hate speech and prevent violence and mass atrocities.
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With seven in ten refugees living in long-term displacement, forced displacement worldwide declined last year for the first time in a decade while remaining at “an unacceptable level”, the UN refugee agency said Thursday.
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Borders closed, departures suspended. In Goma and Bukavu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 600 Rwandan refugees ready to return home remain stranded as health authorities urgently reinforce measures to contain Ebola.
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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched a Global Alliance for Human Rights, a broad coalition aimed at placing human rights at the heart of decision-making as conflict levels reach historic highs.
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With women still accounting for only a third of the world’s researchers, five scientists received the 2026 L’Oréal-UNESCO International “For Women in Science” Prize on Thursday at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed dismay at the violence that erupted across parts of the United Kingdom in recent days, stressing that “scapegoating and dehumanising others is utterly unacceptable”.
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In Gaza’s harbour basin, where fishing boats once moved between the shore and partially open waters before the war, tents of displaced Palestinians now stretch between idle boats and burnt hulls — a scene that sums up the collapse of one of the territory’s oldest livelihoods.
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The UN human rights office demanded the immediate release of two healthcare workers detained the previous day by “armed Palestinian elements” in the Gaza Strip, and called on Israel to “refrain from and prevent such violations of international law”.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk announced an agreement with Lebanon’s government to deploy an independent, impartial assessment mission to collect information and evidence on alleged violations of international law committed by parties to the conflict.
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Two years after the detention of UN and other personnel in Yemen, the UN Secretary-General renewed his condemnation of the arbitrary detentions by the Houthi de facto authorities of dozens of staff from the UN, NGOs, civil society and diplomatic missions.
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UNICEF stressed the need to enable Sudanese students to sit national examinations regardless of where they are, to safeguard their fundamental right to education and their future prospects.
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