As indirect talks in Egypt seeking to end Gaza's two-year war continue, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) says rebuilding the devastated health system is critical to securing lasting peace and stability.
The United Nations has condemned a Myanmar airstrike that killed dozens of civilians, including children, calling it part of a "disturbing pattern" of indiscriminate attacks by the country's military.
The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has almost doubled in the past year, with 680,000 now uprooted from their homes, a new UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Child Alert report found.
Across Europe and beyond, housing costs are rising faster than incomes and many families are spending up to half their salary just to have a place to call home.
Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years under the Assad dictatorship, including during 14 years of civil war which began in 2011.
The offer sounded almost unreal. The UN was fishing around for someone with a knack for building prisons – preferably a woman – to join its mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Would she go?
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