An estimated 6.3 million children under five, in six countries in Africa’s Sahel region, will suffer from wasting this year, UN agencies and their partners warned in a publication issued on Wednesday.

People around the world are unknowingly being exposed to water laced with antibiotics, which could spark the rise of drug-resistant pathogens and potentially fuel another global pandemic, warns a report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Ahead of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, we spoke with the best female wheelchair racer of all time.

The world’s plant protection body met on Tuesday, aiming to set new plant health standards to both safeguard human wellbeing and preserve food security.

Every year, $460 billion worth of clothes that can still be worn are discarded.

Although once again the scientific community has made clear this week that we are not doing enough to limit global warming to the crucial 1.5°C threshold, the findings of the latest Intergovernmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change report, are not all doom, and gloom.

An astonishing 99 per cent of the world’s population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved limits, with negative health impacts kicking in at much lower levels than previously thought, UN medical scientists said on Monday.

Many of the millions of refugees forced to leave Ukraine because of the Russian invasion are traumatized and need mental health support.

The recently approved NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions) Facility project ‘Low Carbon Olive Value Chain Development in Palestine’, being implemented by FAO and the Palestinian Agriculture Disaster Risk Reduction and Insurance Fund, as well as other FAO projects at country level are testimony to this.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has highlighted the need for greater support for people with autism, particularly at the community-level.