A Rohingya refugee who goes by Satara says she's sold WFP food aid five times since coming to Bangladesh... READ MORE›
The world is caught up in the Trump saga and ignoring a famine that could affect 20 million people in four countries... READ MORE›
The drought is the first crisis for Somalias newly elected Somali-American leader, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed... READ MORE›
Official figures reveal that people with malnutrition accounted for 184,528 hospital bed days last year, a huge rise on 65,048 in 2006-07... READ MORE›
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
Yemen had one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world before the current conflict, according to the WFP... READ MORE›
Last year, the United States contributed 6.4 billion in humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations, more than a quarter of global funding... READ MORE›
MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›
In South Sudan, the United Nations says that 2,800 people are fleeing worsening violence and looming famine every day... READ MORE›
Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›
The head of the UN food agency has appealed for aid to avert a humanitarian crisis in the conflict-wracked DR Congo province of Kasai... READ MORE›
An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE›
In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›
Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›
In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE›
In October, the European Union bolstered its support for the food distribution program... READ MORE›
We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE›
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE›
To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›
One in 10 people living in rural areas suffers from acute hunger, while chronic malnutrition affects 43 per cent of children under five years, the FAO report said... READ MORE›
But Maj Gen Leo Irabor, who leads the military operation against Boko Haram in the region, said hunger in the Bama camp was relative ... READ MORE›
The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE›
70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›
In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›
There are some one million registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon, but the real number is far higher... READ MORE›
For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE›
The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›
The world's largest humanitarian agency delivers food and other relief supplies to about 80 million people in more than 80 countries every year... READ MORE›
UN says 14 million people face starvation because of reduced food production, blamed on El Nino weather pattern... READ MORE›
Aid agencies said 100,000 people were affected by the famine, which threaten to affect a further one million people in the coming months... READ MORE›
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