More than one billion children now live in crowded cities around the world but too many are stuck among the poorest of the poor without electricity, water or education, a UN report said Tues [ … ]

The situation remains tense in the southeastern Libyan town of Kufra, where the death toll from recent inter-ethnic clashes is at least 100 and half the population has fled, the United Natio [ … ]

The UN atomic agency said Wednesday that "intensive efforts" by its team visiting Iran on the way forward failed, and that they were denied access to a key military site.

A team of U.N. inspectors arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks on Iran's disputed nuclear programme, a day after the Islamic Republic ordered a halt to its oil sales to British and French c [ … ]

The UN General Assembly demanded an immediate halt to Syria's brutal crackdown, which human rights groups say has claimed more than 6,000 lives over the past 11 months.

The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution supporting the political transition in Syria, plagued by an 11-month political crisis, and calls for the appointment of a UN special [ … ]

A senior UN official said here Tuesday that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is worried about an unfolding food and nutrition crisis that is impacting severa [ … ]

Syria came under fresh pressure on Monday from states seeking UN action against its crackdown on protesters, as a new Arab-backed draft resolution surfaced amid a heated debate at the G [ … ]

The Arab League and United Nations are considering sending a joint observer mission to Syria, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday, as he warned the deadly crackdown could worsen.

A new UN report on Monday said that almost 2,000 communities across Africa abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) last year, prompting calls for a renewed global push to end thi [ … ]