UN refugee agency says global 10-year campaign launched one year ago to end statelessness is making progress, but not enough
Some 13.5 million people inside Syria, nearly half of them children, live on margins of existence, UN office reports
IOM confirms 3,350 fatalities so far this year, surpassing the record-breaking death toll of 3,279 for all of 2014
Demographers expect the current urban population of 3.9 billion to grow to an estimated 6.4 billion by 2050
Four doses of proposed vaccine are required for a child to be fully protected
Officials express alarm over prospect of deadly disease spreading if urgent control measures aren't taken
The WHO has come up with a number of available, affordable measures to mitigate short-lived climate pollutants
Pleading for aid, World Food Program says 14 percent of country's children under 5 are acutely malnourished, with rates as high as 28 percent in some areas
UNCHR warns large influx of people is increasing tensions in small Greek islands
WHO says many lessons have been learned from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and these will be incorporated in the reform process that is underway
New report cites Africa, Middle East as regions where highest number of deaths were recorded
UN refugee agency blames inadequate processing facilities for increased tensions, violence and chaos
Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson has just returned from a tour of several key countries in Mideast, where he held crisis talks on conflicts in Yemen and Syria
Researchers find that virus remains considerably longer in semen than previously thought, but concentration drops with time
Suicide bombers attacks in Baga Sola and Kousseri leave 47 dead, dozens wounded
Senior UN official Staffan de Mistura says he sees that outcome as a worst-case scenario, but says he notes de facto partitioning already occurring
World Health Organization says mentally ill account for 13 percent of global disease burden, and one-third of all health-related disability
High Commissioner Guterres kicks off EU relocation program with departure of first group of asylum seekers from Italy to Sweden, prior to mission in Greece
Six weeks after outbreak and despite requests by aid agencies, Ukrainian authorities still have not allowed for immunization campaign to begin
Despite a few welcome signs of improvement, ILO warns youth jobless crisis remains acute and is far from over
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