Conflict, climate change and inequality are all playing a role, but there are other reasons for what is known rather dryly as “food insecurity.”

Ahead of World Food Day, marked annually on October 16, their stories reflect a global movement toward healthier, more equitable agrifood systems.

The announcement comes as a ceasefire brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt continues to hold, alongside the release of Israeli hostages and...

A striking 1.9 million – or 17 per cent of the population – are suffering emergency levels of acute food insecurity, which leaves them with food gaps,...

UN reports from the region note that entire communities having been emptied in Burkina Faso, northern Mali and western Niger as violence between armed...

Nafisa from Ghana, 16, spoke up for girls “whose dreams are shaken by crisis”, such as a friend in a nearby village who had to leave school after conf...

The UN’s top aid official, Tom Fletcher insisted on Thursday that “the whole UN humanitarian family” is mobilized to get aid into Gaza.

Guterres extended his heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and called on the authorities to comply with international human rights law...

Guterres said the UN and its partners were ready to “move now,” with teams and supplies already in place to scale up food, water, medical and shelter...

Reconstruction will cost over $7 billion, according to WHO estimates, covering humanitarian response, early recovery and long-term rebuilding.

The Secretary-General urged “all concerned to abide fully by the terms of the agreement,” including the release of hostages who have been held for ove...

Armed gangs now control over 85 per cent of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as key roads, cutting families off from food, healthcare, p...

Conflicts in the Horn of Africa, Sudan, South Sudan and the Great Lakes region – including the Democratic Republic of the Congo – have caused widespre...

As the Secretary-General noted, the resolution “gave voice to a simple truth: women’s leadership is central to just and lasting peace”, in addition to...

Aid groups warn that 260,000 civilians remain trapped without safe exit routes as the RSF reportedly builds berms to block movement and supplies. Mine...

WHO stressed the urgent need for fuel, medical supplies, prosthetics, and assistive devices, alongside protection for health workers. Medical evacuati...

The GSF is expected to begin operations following the expiration of the MSS mandate on October 2, 2025, although it will take time to build up the new...

According to the UN health agency, all but one of the dozen reported attacks on healthcare between September 7 and September  17 have been in Gaza Cit...

Even where services do exist, they are often inaccessible due to costs, distance, or lack of integration with other health support. Stigma is also a s...

Among many reported attacks in the last week, on 19 September, a four-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl were killed and others injured when their...

The Secretary-General highlighted steps already underway, including the creation of an independent scientific panel on AI and a new global dialogue on...

Armed gangs control large swathes of the territory, more than six million people are in urgent need of assistance, and 1.4 million have fled their hom...

The UK, Canada, Australia and Portugal recognised a Palestinian State on Sunday, and President Macron announced that France would join them – to lengt...

Some 708 million women are excluded from the labour market by unpaid care work. Even those who work are pushed into lower paid jobs. Women are exclude...

On average, the journey south costs more than $3,000 (Sh387,000), according to the UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA, making it out of reach for many.

That’s according to this year’s SDG Gender Snapshot report launched on Monday by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which...

The international community is currently dealing with multiple humanitarian crises across the world, including conflict-driven crises in the Democrati...

Olga Cherevko, Spokesperson in Gaza for the UN aid coordination office OCHA, warned that history will not judge the international community “based on...

Qatar, the Gulf Cooperation Council, the League of Arab States, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation condemned the action and expressed concern...

Shortly after presenting a mandated report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, the chair of the Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, Mohamed C...

A native of the Jalalabad area, he knew first-hand what this new disaster would mean for the country’s northeast, where extended families all live und...

The dramatic liquidity crisis currently impacting the UN and its global partners has already prevented a high-level human rights probe into the DRC em...

While WHO is doing the best it can to alleviate suffering in Gaza, supporting medical evacuations of over 7,640 patients, more than 15,000 others need...

The UN is leading efforts to tackle household air pollution which is one of the world’s greatest public health threats and particularly harmful for ch...

Only 44 out of 92 UNICEF-supported outpatient nutrition treatment centres are still functional, which means thousands of malnourished children lack ac...

Gunfire tore through the dark. Night after night, the 44-year-old physician from Guinea clung to the hope that the besieged city would hold somehow. T...

Nearly 660,000 children remain out of school, according to the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNWRA. In one UNRWA school corridor now transformed i...

The UN health agency stresses that mental health should be treated as a fundamental human right. Without urgent action, millions will continue to suff...

The heaviest impact is expected in regions that are already vulnerable. West and Central Africa could see 1.9 million children lose access to school,...

On the ground, several UN agencies reported devastation across four eastern provinces of Afghanistan including Nangarhar and Kunar, where staff and hu...

State authority is crumbling across Haiti while gang violence engulfs the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, “paralysing daily life and forcing famili...

Across the Gaza Strip today, the WHO said that more than half a million people are trapped in famine, with destruction to food and health services, an...

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been battling forces of the military government for control of Sudan for over two years, has cut off all sup...

The OHCHR spokesperson told journalists in Geneva that Israeli authorities had carried out investigations in the past, as the occupying power.

With the release of the latest food security report from the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) on war-ravaged Gaza since December, World Food Prog...

The DRC is currently facing one of the most acute humanitarian emergencies in the world, with food insecurity on the rise and 5.9 million Congolese cu...

The race for food is not limited to men. Women are forced to take this risk, driven by the responsibilities of motherhood and the needs of their child...

OCHA said the wider occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) would feel the effect, with 18 Palestinian Bedouin communities put at a higher risk of displa...

In this regard, he emphasised the need to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through investment, reform and partn...