UN agencies sounded the alarm about war-torn Gaza on Tuesday, saying that 10 children a day are losing one or both legs and half a million Palestinians suffer 鈥榗atastrophic鈥� hunger....
Global conflicts killed three times as many children and twice as many women in 2023 than in the previous year, as overall civilian fatalities swelled 72 per cent...
Dozens of countries at the United Nations blasted North Korea鈥檚 human rights record Wednesday, overriding objections from China and Russia to...
Violence against children in armed conflicts reached 鈥榚xtreme levels鈥� in 2023, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to a forthcoming UN report obtained by AFP on Tuesday...
The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a US-drafted resolution supporting a ceasefire plan in Gaza, as Washington leads an intense diplomatic campaign to push Hamas to accept the proposal....
Bangladesh has been elected as a member of the Economic and Social Council, one of the principal organs of the United Nations, for the term 2025-2027...
Bangladesh has expressed support for the initiative put forward by the United States of America to achieve a ceasefire, release of hostages and restoration of peace in the Gaza strip.....
The United Nations on Wednesday slammed a mass flogging of dozens of people in Afghanistan, and called on the Taliban authorities to end...
The country will require 215 years to eliminate child marriage as per the current rate of reduction of child marriage in the country, said the United Nations Population Fund...
INTERNATIONAL law 鈥� the recognized rules of behavior among nations based on customary practices and treaties, among them the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 鈥� has been agreed upon by large and small nations alike...
The return of the cooling La Nina weather phenomenon this year should help lower temperatures somewhat after months of global heat records, the United Nations鈥�...
United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres has termed Bangladesh as a key partner of the UN for the country鈥檚 鈥榮ignificant contributions鈥� to various UN initiatives, including peacekeeping, achieving sustainable development goals and climate adaptation....
State minister for information and communication technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak received the United Nations World Summit on Information Society Award-2024 for the videoconferencing app Boithak...
Bangladesh has made a resounding call for urgent and robust international action on climate change, emphasising the critical need to bolster support for small island nations in their resilience-building efforts...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the international community to end the arms race and instead spend the money for eradication of poverty and easing the adverse impacts of climate change...
Expressing Bangladesh鈥檚 support for the UN Special Envoy on Vision and a Global Eye Health Summit in 2026, foreign minister Hasan Mahmud has reaffirmed that Bangladesh would continue to play its leadership role in the global fight against vision impairment and blindness...
A record quantity of methamphetamine was seized in East and Southeast Asia in 2023 as organised crime groups boosted production, the United Nations said on...
The top United Nations court on Friday ordered Israel to halt military operations in Rafah 鈥榠mmediately鈥�, a landmark ruling likely to increase mounting international pressure on...
The United Nations warned on Friday that escalating fighting in conflict-torn Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine State had forced around 45,000 minority Rohingya people to flee, amid allegations of killings and burnings of property....
Development activists on Sunday urged the government to sketch a roadmap to achieve the World Health Organisation鈥檚 universal health coverage by 2032 for attaining the United Nations鈥� sponsored Sustainable Development Goals...
WITH a membership of 57 states located across the world, the 54-year-old Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is the second biggest inter-governmental body after the United Nations. The grouping formally recognises itself as the 鈥榗ollective voice of the Muslim world.鈥� Established in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco...
Ambassador Jeffrey Prescott, the US Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, has called on the international community to continue its support to the Rohingyas and their Bangladeshi host communities for a crisis that shows no signs of abating.....
Women and children make up at least 56 per cent of the thousands killed in the Gaza war, the UN said on Tuesday, amid controversy over the toll based on numbers from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza...
More than seven million people in fragile South Sudan are at risk of acute food insecurity in the coming months, including tens of thousands at a 鈥榗atastrophic鈥� level of famine, the United Nations warned on Tuesday...
THIS is disconcerting that the Green Climate Fund, set up by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2010 to help developing countries to respond to climate change, is not serving intended purposes because of...
An ageing, sickly Saudi religious scholar who has been behind bars for six years faces conditions that amount to torture, a United Nations group of independent experts said on Wednesday.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated a two-day event titled ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development that creates a platform to discuss the challenges and explore the opportunities of the world鈥檚 shifting demographics...
Clashes reignited between the Sudanese army and rival paramilitaries earlier this week in the key Darfur town of El-Fasher, the United Nations said...
United Nations and European officials on Friday condemned attacks against the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem, which have forced it to...
The number of displaced people in Myanmar has reached three million, the United Nations said, the vast majority forced to flee their homes by conflict unleashed by the military鈥檚 2021 coup...