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The United Nations commemorates August 19 as World Humanitarian Day. This was the date in 2003 in which the UN headquarters in Baghdad was targeted in truck bomb, killing 22 people including the ...

https://undispatch.com/un-video-remind-world-civilians-notatarget/

Journalists routinely hitch rides on UN planes. If there is space on airlifts transporting humanitarian goods and personnel, the UN generally welcomes journalists to ride along and report on some...

https://undispatch.com/video-bbc-journalist-snuck-yemen-report-worst-humanitarian-crisis/

In a press conference at the United Nations today, Secretary General Antonio Guterres appealed to the laws of physics to explain why American leadership, despite some recent moves by Donald Trump...

https://undispatch.com/watch-un-secretary-general-invokes-physics-explain-american-leadership-necessary-world-order/

Fighting has intensified in recent days un certain parts of the Central African Republic, including an apparent massacre of over 100 people in a mining town near the border with Democratic Republ...

https://undispatch.com/watch-rarely-seen-footage-conflict-central-african-republic/

What three conditions trigger the United Nations to declare a “famine?”  What causes a famine? And how do you stop a famine? These questions are acute right now as the world faces an unprece...

https://undispatch.com/famine-explained/

Those microbeads in your face wash are bad news. The United Nations warned this week that more than eight million metric tons of plastic end up in oceans each year,”wreaking marine wildlife, fi...

https://undispatch.com/plastic-sea-stars-galaxy/

This hotel in Vienna, Austria is among the most unique in the world. — mostly because of its staff.  It turns out refugees are good for business. Video courtesy of the UN Refugee Agency.   ...

https://undispatch.com/watch-hotel-staffed-refugees/

Outside of Syria, the situation in Northeastern Nigeria and in the Lake Chad basin is arguably the most urgent humanitarian crisis in the world.  This video from MSF profiles one woman and her f...

https://undispatch.com/driven-home-boko-haram-looks-like/

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty bans all countries that have ratified it from testing nuclear weapons. It also created a UN entity known as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization which ...

https://undispatch.com/watch-un-team-installs-nuclear-detection-system-one-remote-places-earth/

On July 9, South Sudan commemorates its 5th independence day. And I say “commemorates” and not “celebrates” because there is not a whole lot to celebrate. The country has been mired in co...

https://undispatch.com/worlds-newest-country-turns-five-theres-not-much-celebrate/