New Initiative to Protect Girls from Child Marriage

A new multi-country initiative to accelerate action to end child marriage will help protect the rights of millions of the

Hospitals and Schools Attacked in Northern Syria

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) executive director Anthony Lake said Monday he is “appalled” by reports of attacks against four

South Sudan faces unprecedented levels of food insecurity, with 2.8 million people, nearly 25 per cent of the population, in

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released Friday $100 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for severely underfunded

Intra-Syrian talks that were scheduled to begin in Geneva Monday under United Nations sponsorship will now start on Friday. The

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the situation is “utterly unconscionable” in Syria and warned that the use of starvation