The Latest Breaking News from The United Nations

A U.N. spokesman says the United Nations will continue to engage all stakeholders in Afghanistan including the Taliban, even though they issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public and severed ties with the U.N. mission

The Taliban government's morality ministry said it would not cooperate with the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, calling it "an opposing side".

Thousands of women and girls displaced by Haiti's gang violence are under threat from a surge in sexual assaults, the United Nations warned Tuesday, denouncing deplorable living conditions in makeshift camps.

The United States’ most senior public health official, surgeon-general Vivek Murthy, believes social media platforms should come with warning labels. The United Nations’ education, science and culture agency says smartphones should be banned in schools. Chinese regulators are pushing to limit children’s smartphone use to just two hours a day.

The Israeli military said it rescued an Israeli hostage in Gaza on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was seized during the Hamas attacks that sparked a devastating war.

Floods in Sudan claim 132 lives, displace 30,000 families. Dam collapse exacerbates crisis in a country already facing severe flooding, civil war, and hunger.

A dam near Sudan’s Red Sea coast collapsed on Sunday and has claimed at least 30 lives, according to the United Nations. The surging waters devastated at least 20 villages. The dam, in a remote area 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Port Sudan, supplied drinking water to the Red…

The Taliban has rejected concerns and criticism from the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws which include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public

The United Nations security council unanimously voted on 15 August 2024 to extend the mandate of the 12,626 men and women of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis). The African mission has been stationed in Somalia for the past 17 years to support the government’s battle against the…