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Yemeni government and Houthi movement invited to Sept 6 peace talks
UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths is trying to negotiate an end to the three-year conflict
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UN wants selfies to make world leaders face cost of war
In 2017, 139 aid workers were killed, more than 100 wounded and 76 kidnapped while doing their jobs
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UN Palestinian schools to open on time despite US freeze
Hundreds of UN-run schools for Palestinian refugees will open on time
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Al Qaeda closely allied with Taliban, UN says
Report lauds Pakistan's counterterrorism efforts
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Mali opposition leader rejects results as counting underway
Despite fierce criticism of Keita, Cisse fails to rally the support of other parties
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UN says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps
Beijing maintains that Xinjiang faces threat from militants who plot attacks, stir up ethnic tensions
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Iran foreign minister says no meeting planned with US counterpart
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said there was no meeting planned with US officials
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UN calls for credible probe of Yemen bus strike
The appeal followed coalition's announcement that it had ordered a probe of Thursday's raid
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New UN rights chief Bachelet will face world of hate: Guterres
General Assembly approves the appointment of Bachelet to be next UN high commissioner for human rights
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UN officials urge credible inquiry into Yemen air strike
United Nations officials calls for credible and transparent investigation into a Saudi-led coalition air strike
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Russia and Iran keen to avoid bloodbath in Syria: UN
UN to make preparations for a battle and would ask Turkey to keep its borders open to allow civilians
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US to give Colombia $9 million to help Venezuelan migrants: Haley
US President Donald Trump imposes economic sanctions on Maduro after accusing them of undermining democracy
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Imran laments inaction on Kashmir issue in meeting with Maleeha Lodhi
Says UN resolutions way forward to solve longstanding issue
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Despite tensions, Russia seeks US help to rebuild Syria
Rebuilding Syria will be a massive effort, costing at least $250 billion, according one UN estimate
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UN to convene Yemen talks in Geneva next month
Warring parties invited for table talk
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At least 20 dead in air strikes on Yemen's port city Hodeida
Strikes have picked up again around Hodeida since Saudi company's two oil tankers came under attack last week
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Should the next UN rights chief treat leaders more gently?
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has acknowledged that his unvarnished criticism of world leaders lost him a second term
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UN court orders UAE to lift measures against Qataris
Final verdicts generally take years and no date has been set for the case to be heard in full
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Access to potable water remains a problem, says report
Study highlights local development needs of the country
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Access to anti-AIDS drugs at record high
Progress made risks being halted, even reversed, if funding and attention allowed to dwindle, agency warned.
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Google boils down water data for new UN environment site
Google and UNEP will produce geospatial maps and data for a publicly available platform
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Turkish court sentences 72 defendants to life in coup bridge trial
A suspension bridge in Istanbul saw clashes in which 34 people were killed during an attempted coup two years ago
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Failure to educate girls could cost world $30 trillion a year-report
Women who have completed secondary education are more likely to work and earn on average
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India rejects UN report on IOK, says it ‘not even fit for consideration by rights group’
The report is coloured by clear bias and relies on unverified sources, claims Indian envoy to UN
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Chilean court ratifies plastic bag ban after appeal
Chile uses around 3.4 billion plastic bags every year
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UN envoy holds 'fruitful' talks with Yemen rebel chief
Hodeida is the latest battleground in the Yemeni conflict, which has killed nearly 10,000 people since 2015
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UN Security Council to hold emergency Syria talks
UN Security Council to discuss the Syrian army's Russia-backed offensive against militant groups
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Rebels discuss with Russia a deal to end fighting in southern Syria
Arrival of thousands of uprooted Syrians near Jordan’s border is creating new security challenges
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UNICEF chief condemns Yemen 'carnage', with 2,200 children killed
Nearly 10,000 people are killed since fighting in Yemen began in 2015 to restore internationally recognised government
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Top UN official lauds Pakistan Army's role in peacekeeping missions
COAS affirmed that Pakistan will continue to play its positive role for maintaining international peace, ISPR says
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Our working youth
Pakistan recently released its second UN-endorsed National Human Development Report
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Kim Jong Nam murder not a prank: prosecutors
Malaysian state prosecutors insisted it was a "carefully planned and executed" murder using a UN-banned poison
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Kashmir carnage
the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein has highlighted the Kashmir carnage
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Indian army chief accuses UN of publishing 'motivated' reports
General Rawat refuses to speak about human rights violations by Indian forces in IoK
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Libya strongman hands oil ports to unrecognised eastern authority
UN-backed unity government based in Tripoli struggles to assert its authority outside west
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Canada sanctions top Myanmar military over Rohingya abuses
The European Union and Canada have announced sanctions against leaders involved in violations in Rakhine State
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UN chief appeals for end to fighting in south Syria
Guterres is scheduled to hold talks Saturday in Washington with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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Yemen's Houthis indicate 'willingness to hand over port to UN'
Saudi Arabia, UAE say they must recapture Hodeidah to deprive Houthis of their main source of income
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"Hate narratives" from abroad drive Myanmar communities apart, Suu Kyi says
Since August, nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from mainly Buddhist Myanmar's Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh
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Thatta’s water needs
More than five billion people could face severe water shortages by 2050 due to climate change
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Journalists demand UN probe into Shujaat murder
Stage protest in front of IHC, UN Office
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Both sides committed war crimes during siege of Syria's Ghouta--UN
Syrian government troops committed war crimes in siege of Ghouta through heavy bombardment and mass starvation: UN
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US quits UN human rights body, citing bias vs Israel, alarming critics
US Ambassador to United Nations Nikki Haley calls UN Human Rights Council, a hypocritical and self-serving body
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Migration is 'inevitable': UN chief
Three European Countries have formed axis against clandestine immigration
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UN envoy in Yemen for emergency talks on Hodeidah
Martin Griffiths expected to propose to rebel leaders that they cede control of the city to a UN-supervised committee
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Saudi-led forces seize entrance to airport in Yemen's main port city
This Operation in Hodeidah that began three days ago, can seize the city quickly, early success for Saudi and...
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Hafiz Saeed hails UN report on held Kashmir human rights violations
Terms India's killing of senior journalist and editor of Rising Kashmir worst kind of terrorism
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Yemen rebel leader defiant as dozens die in battle for key port
Heavy fighting left 39 people dead on Thursday, after a Saudi-led coalition launched an assault to recapture Hodeidah
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UN chief urged to raise Ukrainian prisoners in talks with Putin
Among the signatories were Australia, Canada, many EU countries along with Turkey, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine
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US says will 'take firm, appropriate measures' against Syria violations
The State Department also said the United States would release $6.6 million to the Syrian Civil Defense fund