The nuns are unsure how many women they have helped at St. Euphrasia's Safe Home, but a senior worker there said at least 25 ...

KATHMADU, April 30: UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, estimates some 2 million women and girls of reproductive age – including some 126,000 pregnant women -- are among those affected by the ...

Representing the largest international annual gathering of Indigenous Peoples with around 1,000 participants, the 24th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) ...

The UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, said in a statement released late on Sunday that access for humanitarian aid remains “dangerously restricted” in the ...

Syndicates have expanded into South America, the UN agency said, seeking to enhance money laundering and underground banking partnerships with South American drug cartels. They are increasingly ...

A street artists chalks a portrait of the late Pope Francis outside the Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina Monday, April 21 ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Pope Francis regularly referred to Ukraine and its people as “martyred” and ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, was as much a tireless advocate for nature as he was the poor and ...

Once confined to sprawling scam farms, criminal networks have evolved into highly agile operations, relocating at will to jurisdictions with weak governance and high corruption, says the UN.

The transnational criminal networks are infiltrating and scaling up in other parts of the world, particularly in the Pacific region, Africa, South America and South Asia, the UN Office on Drugs and ...

The 88-year-old pontiff died on Easter Monday after a cerebral stroke that led to a coma and irreversible heart failure, the ...