Can the UN still remain relevant if it still looks and acts like the organization it was when it was formed in 1945? The ...

Child and adolescent obesity has quadrupled since 1990, rising from two per cent to around eight per cent of youngsters in the five-to-19 age group, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO) ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that significantly more resources are required to scale up its response in Yemen amid escalating conflict and rising needs.

The death of a lab worker in Russia’s Siberia region has sparked concerns over a possible plague case, the UN World Health ...

Seven months into the Iran War, threats of further military escalation and stalled efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz ...

Dementia is a rapidly growing global health challenge that affects many millions of people worldwide and places significant ...

VICTORIA, Seychelles, October 6 (IPS) - One night, many years ago now, on a remote beach in the outer islands of Seychelles, I sat in the darkness and watched a green turtle come ashore. She had ...

BRATISLAVA, October 7 (IPS) - More than 60 Ukrainian organisations have issued an appeal to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help stop the torture of Ukrainians held in Russian captivity.

Across Papua New Guinea, water sources are drying up, crops are failing and food prices are rising months before the worst ...

Leaders offered sometimes very different visions of what action should look like – from Pacific nations demanding a rapid ...

The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is robbing children of their loved ones – with some succumbing to the deadly disease themselves, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF ...

Djibouti is facing “overlapping emergencies” as refugees fleeing the conflict in Yemen arrive on its shores while migrants continue to travel in the opposite direction, the UN migration agency (IOM) ...