Children in conflict-ravaged Sudan as young as a year old have been raped since the beginning of 2024, according to the U.N. children's agency Tuesday, which said sexual violence is being used as a tactic of war.

The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help fund Uganda's response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed two people, after the country's health budget was strained by U.

Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war, says the UN children's agency, Unicef. Mass sexual violence has been widely documented as a weapon of war in the country's nearly two-year conflict.

The United Nations Environment Programme on Monday said a new round of negotiations toward a global plastics treaty will take place from August 5 to 14 in Geneva, Switzerland, after countries failed to agree on the parameters of a final agreement last December in Busan,

The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a major city in eastern Congo

The United Nations’ World Food Program is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts, a spokesperson said Monday. Tomson Phiri said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press that the U.

(Reuters) - The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), which gets much of its funding from the United States, is closing its southern African bureau, Bloomberg News said on Monday. The decision was communicated to staff around the world in an email on Friday from Global Executive Director Cindy McCain, Bloomberg reported.

Indeed, torture survivors have historically been viewed as heroes who have overcome adversity, and communities tend to rally around their recovery and rehabilitation. It is time the same recognition was afforded to victims of sexual violence in conflict, who are often stigmatised.

Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday, noting U.S. nuclear deterrence is crucial to the country’s security and that its participation would send the “wrong message.

The last negotiations for a treaty to rein in plastic waste ended in a stalemate, but some participants saw signs of a possible breakthrough this summer.

Despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in critical military aide, Ukraine has made a habit of obfuscating U.S. interests at the U.N.