The covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, and the world, in many ways - and now we are starting to understand its wider neurological effects By Luke Taylor 22 July 2025 ...

The world is facing multiple famines of 'biblical proportions' in just a matter of months, the UN has said, warning that the coronavirus pandemic will push an additional 130 million people to the ...

COVID-19 threatens not only hard-won development and peacebuilding gains but also “risks exacerbating conflicts or fomenting new ones”, the Secretary-General told the Security Council.

In May 2020, shortly after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the Statistics Division/DESA, as one of the co-chairs of the United Nations Legal Identity Agenda Task Force launched a survey to ...

GENEVA - The U.N. humanitarian office says needs for assistance have ballooned to unprecedented levels this year because of COVID-19, projecting that a staggering 235 million people will require ...

The coronavirus pandemic will cost the global tourism sector $2.0 trillion in lost revenue in 2021, the UN's tourism body said Monday, calling the sector's recovery "fragile" and "slow".

A record level of new daily COVID-19 cases worldwide could suggest the pandemic is peaking in some large countries, even as the coronavirus has become "well established" in some regions, the World ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic has created an “unparalleled” global labor market crisis that will affect the employment market for years, the International Labor Organization ...

Politics UN adopts new voting procedure during COVID-19 pandemic Canada is battling for a seat at the UN Security Council ahead of upcoming vote ...

She added that $159.5 million is a tiny sum compared to Canada's total foreign aid budget and the amount being spent responding to COVID-19 — but there are still good reasons to spend it.