UN Crime Congress: Technology is transforming crime – and the response to it
Criminal networks now move money, goods and information across borders at lightning speed, exploiting everything from new technologies to global instability. Yet the same...
Why the UN General Assembly still matters
Richard Gowan, Director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group in New York, has spent years studying the organization – its...
‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons...
The top Bangladeshi diplomat and sitting foreign minister has staked his one-year presidency on a single ambition: restoring trust. It’s a theme he returns to...
Security Council LIVE: UN peacekeeping under pressure
UN peacekeepers have increasingly been sent into places where there is no peace to keep – under resourced, outgunned and exposed to violence they...
Sexual violence against civilians and POW’s in Ukraine widespread and ‘abhorrent’
That’s according to a new UN human rights office (OHCHR) report which details violations including gang rape, rape, genital mutilation, electric shocks and beatings to...
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible
The West African country has increased domestic revenue by 0.5 per cent of GDP each year for the past decade, issued Africa’s first SDG...
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak
This is evident in the city of Bunia, epicentre of the crisis, said Dr. Setcheme Mongbo, UN Women Representative in the DRC, speaking on...
Haiti: Child malnutrition crisis worsens amid escalating violence
It estimates that 93,873 children will experience severe acute malnutrition, a potentially life-threatening condition requiring urgent treatment, while another 159,852 children are expected to suffer from moderate acute...
Nepal floods: ‘Apocalyptic’ destruction signals wider climate threat across Himalayas
The warning comes from Sara Netzer, regional director with UN field operations office UNOPS, which provides infrastructure, procurement and project management services across the...
Yemen’s humanitarian crisis growing by the hour amid spike in displacement
“Our resources are very, very, very limited and our stocks will be depleted very soon,” said Abdusattor Esoev, Chief of Mission in Yemen for...
New UN system platform puts millions of data points at users’ fingertips, says Guterres
The United Nations system is hoping to make that task much easier with the launch of the UN System Data Commons, a new online...
World News in Brief: Winter aid for Gaza, West Bank; Haiti food production; migrant...
Nearly 84 per cent of Gaza’s population – more than 1.76 million people – live in overcrowded displacement sites or damaged shelters, leaving families...
Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals
Strikingly, not a single indicator on the Sustainable Development Goal for gender equality (SDG 5) is on track to be met by 2030, the initial...
US likely committed war crimes against Iranian civilians: Independent experts
In the same report, released Monday, investigators found that the Iranian Government committed crimes against humanity by murdering, imprisoning and torturing those who participated in...
Security Council LIVE: Syria’s transition in the spotlight
While Syria is making progress in its political transition, the Security Council is meeting to hear briefings and discuss the situation on the ground,...
Yemen escalation displaces more than 57,000 children: UNICEF
The warning comes from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) which said that more than 57,000 children have been displaced in just the past two...
As freshwater reserves shrink, countries must prepare for a new water reality
“This is not a single bad year, but a persistent decade-long signal,” said Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), presenting the...
Who should set the rules for AI? The UN is pushing for a safer...
Those concerns intensified after a former researcher at the AI company Anthropic warned on 8 September that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity.For...
World News in Brief: Shipping alert from IMO, democracy vanishing in Nicaragua, alert over...
Since the current conflict in the Middle East began on 28 February, the International Maritime Organization, IMO, has verified 80 attacks on international shipping...
Repression continues in Venezuela in the face of ‘appalling’ human rights violations
In the Fuerte Guaicaipuro military facility, prisoners have been confined in pit-like cells dug below ground level, exposed to cold, food deprivation and other...
AI, climate and conflicts top Guterres’s agenda ahead of General Assembly
Speaking to reporters six days before world leaders gather in New York, Mr. Guterres identified “three existential threats”: runaway artificial intelligence (AI), the climate...
Security Council LIVE: ‘Being a woman is a crime in Afghanistan,’ civil society briefer...
Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the continuing presence of terrorist groups as well as rights violations against women and...
Gaza: At least 20 killed in deadly building collapse, search for survivors continues
The incident has highlighted the precarious situation of displaced Palestinians across the Gaza Strip who shelter wherever they can, including in structures damaged during...
Report warns of reprisals against those who engage with the UN on human rights
Activists, lawyers and others who cooperate with the United Nations on human rights continue to face intimidation and reprisals, according to a new report...
