“It is critical that as we scale up the use of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) we make sure we do not also scale up decent work deficits, such as the informal work, low-pay and low productivity conditions that many workers in NbS currently face,” said Vic van Vuuren, Director, ILO Enterprises...

Innovation and technology can be powerful tools for inclusion, enhancing access to information, education, and lifelong learning, opening new avenues for people of determination to participate in the workforce and society at large on an equal basis, he highlights in a message.

Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, and a suspected car-ramming attacker was killed after wounding an Israeli soldier, Israeli medics and the army said. The army confirmed its troops had fired on "rioters" who attacked soldiers in two separate clashes in the...

The United Nations had previously handled the repatriation of refugees from Libya, but the deal between authorities in the west, east and south has enabled the Interior Ministry's agency tackling illegal migration to work in a unified way across the country.

Jordan is one of the world's most water-deficient countries, suffering from extreme droughts, and water cooperation with Israel long pre-dates the 1994 peace deal between them.

Proposing the creation of a Climate Solidarity Pact, bringing together developed and emerging economies to combine resources and capacities to benefit everyone on the planet, Guterres has urged wealthy nations and global financial institutions to support emerging economies.

The UN Human Rights Council said it would hold an urgent session on Iran, with backers pushing for a global probe into the deadly crackdown on mass protests rocking the country. The UN's highest rights body said a special session on "the deteriorating human rights situation" in Iran would be...

United Nations, US—Reiterating their pledge to continue providing aid to Afghanistan, Qatar and Kuwait have said they will continue to work with international relief organizations in order to ensure food security for the country. Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani, UN Permanent Representative of Qatar, said at a UN General...

United Nations chiefs held talks with Russian officials on the Black Sea agreements on exporting grain and fertilizers, eight days before one of the deals is set to expire. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths and Rebeca Grynspan, head of UN trade and development agency UNCTAD met Russian officials led by...

The Methane Alert and Response System (MARS) was announced by the UN Environment Programme during the COP27 summit. Methane, emitted by leaks in fossil fuel installations as well as from other human-caused sources like livestock farming and landfills, is responsible for roughly 30% of the global rise in temperatures to...

Diplomats from developing nations criticised the persistent imbalance in climate financing which, within the UN framework, should be evenly split between reducing emissions (mitigation) and boosting resilience to future impacts (adaptation).

Musk has been searching for ways for the social media platform to make money after the buyout, including an idea to charge users $8 a month for verified accounts. The move would help overcome a potential loss of advertisers, Twitter's main source of revenue, after many top brands put their...

Saturday's stunt in Madrid was the latest increasingly daring action taken by climate activists to grab the headlines, including throwing soup on Vincent van Gogh paintings in London and Rome, and mashed potatoes on a Claude Monet masterpiece.

The bilateral relations between the two countries are based on mutual respect and appreciation. The significant advancement in the bilateral ties in recent years in several major sectors, notably the economic and trade sectors, has led to a rise in their trade exchange to record levels, she adds.

Algeria mediated a reconciliation deal in October between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas. While few believe the deal will last, it was seen as a public relations coup for Algeria, which has been seeking an enhanced regional and international role, on the back of its growing status as a...

Russia's blockade of grain exports makes it "impossible" for fully loaded ships to leave port, Ukraine charged after Moscow claimed drone attacks on its Crimea fleet had exploited the grain corridor safe zone. Kyiv's maritime grain exports were halted after Russia pulled out of a landmark agreement that allowed the...

At COP26 countries agreed to deliver stronger commitments this year, including updated national plans with more ambitious targets. However, only 23 out of 193 countries have submitted their plans to the UN so far. The countries must dramatically scale up their efforts to counter the climate crisis, he adds.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - In drought-hit Iraq, six out of 10 households have had their access to drinking water disrupted and a quarter of farmers have seen crop yields drastically fall this year, said a survey published Monday. Iraq has been battered by three years of drought, low rainfall and reduced...

"As with the Covid-19 pandemic, it is once again the most vulnerable that are paying the price of world events. Combined crises are expected to throw an additional 75 to 95 million people into extreme poverty this year alone," Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and...

The exchange rate reached more than 5,000 Syrian pounds to the US dollar for the first time since the start of the conflict more than a decade ago. Syria's official exchange rate has stood at around 3,015 pounds to the greenback since Sept-- compared to 47 pounds to the dollar...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday. Heatwaves are predicted to "exceed human physiological and social limits" in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and...

The question of rights to Libya's vast hydrocarbon resources has become more urgent this year as global energy prices have soared. Monday's deal builds on an agreement signed between Ankara and a previous Tripoli-based administration in 2019.

Special envoy Hans Grundberg pledged "relentless efforts" to reinvigorate the truce, which lapsed on Sunday after bringing a sharp reduction in clashes since it came into force in April.Iran-backed Huthi rebels have been fighting a Saudi-led pro-government coalition since 2015, in a war that has left hundreds of thousands dead...

The draft agreement floated by US envoy Amos Hochstein aims to settle competing claims over offshore gas fields and was delivered to Lebanese and Israeli officials at the weekend. Lebanese authorities, who confirmed receipt of the terms on Saturday, have pledged to deliver a reply "as quickly as possible".

Lebanon said it received a letter from US envoy Amos Hochstein containing an "offer" on a maritime border deal with Israel that could settle competing claims over offshore gas fields. Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with US ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea "who delivered a written offer from the US...

The UAE delegation attended the sixth day of high-level meetings on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The challenges facing Iraq today are the result of long accumulations that we are working to dismantle and our hope for the aspiration of our society, of which youth make up the bulk of it, towards adhering to and defending democracy, as a way of life and mechanisms for good...

The UAE delegation attended the fifth day of high-level meetings on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Israel is impeding progress toward a two-state solution and can no longer be considered a reliable partner in the peace process, Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas told the United Nations. His remarks come a day after Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said he supported a two-state solution, but Abbas said the...

For the past 10 days, various officials have suggested the deal - which US then-president Donald Trump scrapped in 2018 - might not be renewed until at least mid-November, a deadline that Lapid has tried to use to push the West to impose a tougher approach in their negotiations.

"Defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity is about much more than standing up for one nation’s right to choose its own path, fundamental as that right is.  It’s also about protecting an international order where no nation can redraw the borders of another by force," he adds.

The two discussed ties between OIC and the United States in view of the strategic dialogue meetings which took place in Washington last May were reviewed.

The Secretary-General called for mobilizing all political and legal efforts to implement a long-term international consensus on a lasting solution to the Palestinian issue.

The UNEP noted a global temperature rise of 2.5C was possible if the ozone-depleting chemicals weren't banned, which would have been a 'catastrophe'.

The UN's World Meteorological Organization and its Environment Programme warned that the catastrophes such as Pakistan's monumental floods and China's crop-withering heatwave this year will become commonplace should the world economy fail to decarbonize.

The Kremlin said that President Vladimir Putin will discuss with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a deal allowing grain exports from Ukraine that Russia has criticized. The agreement between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by Turkey and the United Nations, designated three ports for Kyiv to send grain supplies through a...

Children make up nearly half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million. Most of them have never been able to leave the coastal territory.

The rebels' Al-Masirah television channel aired footage of the parade it said involved air and naval forces as well as hundreds of uniformed troops. The parade drew a rebuke from the UN mission deployed to oversee the deal the rebels reached with the government and its Saudi-led supporters in Sweden...

United Nations has warned of the outbreak of new phase of violence in Libya as the country faces delays in moving toward elections. Last week heavy gunfire and shelling broke out in many neighborhoods of Tripoli, leaving 32 people dead. The rival prime ministers of the country blamed each other...

Sketching a dire picture of the world’s healthcare facilities, the United Nations has said that nearly four billion people are at greater risk of infection because of poor hygiene services where patients receive care. According to WHO and the UNICEF nearly 688 million people are treated at places with no...

King Mohammed VI asked allies to "clarify their stance" on the matter, without specifying which countries he was addressing, although he saluted the United States' "incontrovertible" position. The former US President Donald Trump recognized Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed former Spanish colony.

The establishment of nuclear-free zones is a key step to boost non-proliferation system and achieve a full nuclear disarmament, says a top Qatari official.

The figure is still six million higher than the pre-pandemic level of 2019, with the recovery in youth unemployment lagging behind the bounceback in other age groups. Between 2019 and 2020, those aged 15 to 24 experienced a much higher percentage loss in employment than the rest of the labor...

Moscow and Kyiv agreed in Istanbul last month to resume shipments of wheat and other grain from Ukrainian ports for the first time since Russia invaded its neighbor in February.

The prosecutor found that the grain aboard the vessel belonged to a Syrian merchant, the judicial official said.

US envoy Amos Hochstein arrived in Beirut Sunday to push talks to resolve a bitter maritime border dispute between Lebanon and Israel over Mediterranean waters with offshore gas fields. "Reaching a resolution is both necessary and possible, but can only be done through negotiations and diplomacy," the US State Department...

The UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in a phone call to his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu described the agreement as a ''key step.''

The four-way meeting in Istanbul comes with Russia's invasion of Ukraine showing no sign of abating.

Diplomats at the United Nations held last-ditch discussions on extending Syrian cross-border aid Sunday, as residents of the country's rebel-held northwest feared life-saving supplies could soon halt. The aid delivery mechanism across Turkey's border into rebel-held Syria at the Bab al-Hawa crossing is the only way UN assistance can reach...

Iran and its influence in the Middle East took center stage on Tuesday in talks between Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid with French President Emmanuel Macron during Lapid's first trip abroad in office.