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"The tragic reality is that an effective response was hampered in part by challenges that relate directly to the unresolved issues at the heart of the conflict," the U.N. special envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, told the U.N. Security Council.
The U.N. emergency relief coordinator's office set a US$4.3 billion target to help people suffering in the war-torn nation.
As Putin's war in Ukraine nears the one-year mark with no end in sight, the U.N. again calls on the international community to step up with billions more in aid for civilians and refugees.
The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that hit Turkey and northern Syria a week ago rose to more than 36,000 people as the search continued for loved ones trapped in the rubble despite a closing survival window.
Fresh snowfall, freezing temperatures and a disrupted cross-border operation between southern Turkey and war-torn northern Syria added to the despair, frustration and anger.
While many developing nations suffered droughts and floods, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted food supply lines.
The extension of a wartime agreement with Russia will continue to allow Ukraine's grain shipments to be exported.
Drought, floods, disease outbreaks and a global food crisis add pressure for real action at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt.
Famine looms in parts of Somalia between October and December, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned.
Red Cross and U.N. workers rescued civilians from Ukraine's besieged Mariupol, busing them to safety as part of a negotiated "safe passage" operation.
Afghanistan needs more than $5 billion in aid to avert looming crises, the U.N. said in its largest-ever such appeal.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to create an international commission of experts that will investigate abuses during the past year of war in Ethiopia.
Some 274 million people will need emergency humanitarian aid in 2022 due to war, conflicts, hunger, climate change and the pandemic, the U.N. said.
Donors pledged more than US$1.2 billion in emergency aid for Afghanistan at a U.N.-sponsored fundraiser as the Tabilan consolidates power.
International donors contributed US$1.7 billion for people starving in Yemen, an amount that leaders of humanitarian organizations called disappointing.
U.N. officials released a 2021 humanitarian plan that projects a 40% increase in people who need aid from a year earlier.
