The world needs to better manage its freshwater resources but thirsty new technologies touted as solutions could lead to “serious problems” if left unchecked, a UN report warned. Roughly half ...

Climate change and poor planning are causing major water scarcity crises in multiple cities and regions around the world, and the United Nations is warning that tensions over water are worsening ...

David Boyd, the United Nations (UN) envoy for human rights and the environment ... Boyd also denounced the water shortages suffered by many rural residents and the deadly air pollution that ...

Paritosh Kasotia is an International Program Manager at the Iowa Council for International Understanding. She is also President of the United Nations Association-Des Moines Chapter. The ...

The ILO estimates that over 2.4 billion workers — more than 70% of the global workforce — are likely ... such as malaria and water insecurity, will claim a quarter of a million additional ...

The U.S. wants the U.N. to bolster existing international bodies already on the front lines of safeguarding artificial ...

Antonio Guterres says war is being waged on the Sudanese people, warns of escalating unrest in el-Fasher, Darfur.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for “urgent de-escalation” of hostilities in a phone conversation with ...

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday raised alarm over the situation in northern Burkina Faso where several hundred ...

The northwest Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has issued a flood alert because of glacial melting and warned of a ...

director of the West Africa observatory of illicit economies at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime. “We’ve had reports of rising crack cocaine consumption in Agadez ...

The UN labour organization warned Monday that over 70% of the world's workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat ...