During Executive Committee session, WHO chief Margaret Chan said hard lessons have been learned from the Ebola epidemic
UN wanted to bring Syrian government and opposition members together in Geneva for negotiations Monday, but process has been delayed by disagreements over who should be invited
Agency official says phenomenon's drought, flooding can lead to malnutrition, diseases, health service disruptions — and poor countries are most vulnerable
UNHCR spokesman tells VOA it is difficult to know how widespread sexual abuse phenomenon is because women are reluctant to speak about their experiences
Economists say they expect a modest improvement over the coming two years, with global growth reaching 3.2 percent at the end of next year
International Labor Organization says emerging, developing economies will bear the brunt of the problem
UNHCR says about 100,000 people have fled in recent weeks from attacks launched by Boko Haram insurgents in neighboring Nigeria
Rise in violence coincided with Islamic State group's seizing of large areas in northern and western Iraq
UNHCR says staff in village of Kapise, about 100 kilometers south of capital, Lilongwe, so far has registered nearly 1,300 new arrivals, with more than 900 people waiting to be recorded
UN agencies report people in poor condition after having been deprived of food, medicine and other essential life-giving supplies since October
Human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein says he has evidence women have been sexually violated by security forces because of their Tutsi ethnicity
IOM says one in seven people today is a migrant. Of these, 232 million are international migrants and 340 million are internal migrants; governments are not keeping pace with the vast movement of people
World Health Organization reports all known chains of transmission have been stopped in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the three most heavily affected countries
Klaus Schwab says robotics, with new innovations such as self-guided cars, will destroy employment, wipe out much of the middle class, a major pillar of democratic systems
UN Children’s Fund warns that millions of children in Yemen are facing violence, disease and deprivation
Representative for UN refugee agency in Syria traveled on first convoy to reach Madaya, described horror at seeing many starving people fighting for survival in freezing cold
WHO approves a third company to produce vaccine
UN refugee agency reports thousands are fleeing from growing violence and criminality; outflow adds to already huge problem of displacement both inside and outside conflict-ridden country
Filippo Grandi urges governments not to succumb to growing dangers of xenophobia, but to offer protection to people fleeing war and persecution
UN says more than 8,100 civilians killed or wounded between March 26 and end of last year, the vast majority from Saudi-led airstrikes
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