The highest wealth inequality was observed in China, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand, the report said.
With the war between Israel and Hamas raging, a UN humanitarian official urged the Security Council on Tuesday to "not lose focus" on Ukraine, especially as another brutal winter looms.
India abstained from voting on a UN resolution that called for an immediate humanitarian truce in the Israel-Hamas crisis last Friday.
Ambassador R. Ravindra said India is "deeply concerned" about the loss of civilian lives in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Trucks stuffed with international aid for Gaza should be rolling "in the next day or so," the United Nations said Friday, with Palestinians desperate for life-saving supplies after relentless bombing from Israel, still reeling from its bloodiest-ever attack.
Consumers discard or possess disused electronic goods containing raw materials critical for the green energy transition and worth almost $10 billion every year, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Efforts to help millions of people in need in Sudan due to the civil war are being hampered by a lack of security and meagre international funding, the United Nations said Thursday.
Gang-plagued Haiti is sinking further into bloodshed and lawlessness, the United Nations chief warned in a report Wednesday, urging the international community to provide security and financial aid to the troubled Caribbean nation.
Sick leave in the UK has hit its highest rate in 15 years and is well above pre-pandemic levels, a study showed Tuesday.
India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said influential countries are resisting change whilst some developing nations are pushing for the rebalance of global power.
Ministers from nations like Mauritius, Maldives and Bhutan praised India for its G20 presidency and for using its position as an emerging power to raise issues of the global south at world forums.
More than 50 decrees have been introduced by the Taliban. It has become increasingly common for women to face harassment, intimidation and violence on the streets for allegedly defying them.
The leader of Paraguay, one of a dwindling number of countries that recognize Taiwan, called Tuesday for its readmission to the United Nations in recognition of its democratic credentials.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday he was willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, seeking a diplomatic path as tensions soar over Pyongyang's weapons programs.
Muslim leaders addressing the United Nations on Tuesday berated the West over burnings of the Koran, denouncing the acts protected as free speech as discriminatory.
The United Nations Security Council renewed the mandate for its peacekeeping force in Lebanon for another year after tense debate around the troops' freedom of movement. The vote came only a few hours before the mission's authorization was set to expire.
The crisis in Niger, whose president was overthrown on July 26, is amplifying risks for millions of vulnerable youngsters, the UN's children's fund said.
More than four million Yemenis will receive less food assistance as a result of funding shortages, compounding one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, the UN's food agency warned Friday.
Haunted by previous failures in Haiti and worried about getting stuck in a deadly quagmire, the international community is reluctant to answer a UN call for a special intervention force, experts say.
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday called for transparency on the risks of artificial intelligence and for the data harvested by AI to be used responsibly.
UN chief Antonio Guterres denounced Wednesday a global financial system where nearly half the world's people live in countries whose governments spend more on debt than education or health.
An A.I.-powered robot's response to the question if it would go against humans has drawn mixed reactions from the attendees of a U.N. summit.
