Afghanistan: Women face fresh dress code arrests amid record refugee returns
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) verified that at least 52 women and one girl were arrested or detained in Herat and Kabul...
Myanmar: Poverty deepens as families face multiple shocks with limited resources
The report reveals that more than two in three people now endure “multidimensional poverty” or are at risk of falling into it, with over...
Ukraine: UN condemns latest attacks and calls for civilian protection
Among the dead in Pryluky were five children, three of them babies, according to the latest information from local authorities. One of the children...
‘No plague case’ in Siberia, Russia tells WHO as assessments continue
Russian regulators told WHO on Tuesday that there was no evidence pneumonic plague played a part in her death and that no pathogens had...
World News in Brief: Child migrants in Europe, Greenland forced contraception scandal, FAO hunger...
Just over 31,000 children arrived in Greece, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Malta last year – 25 per cent less than in 2024.
Of more than...
Kenya races to trace all contacts after first Ebola death, WHO official says
Kenya’s first Ebola death has triggered a race to trace everyone the victim came into contact with, as the United Nations and partners provide...
Critical funding gap threatens health response in Yemen
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that significantly more resources are required to scale up its response in Yemen amid escalating conflict and rising...
Reform, or lose trust: Governments press the UN to reflect the world as it...
Can the UN still remain relevant if it still looks and acts like the organization it was when it was formed in 1945? The...
WHO releases first global guidelines on child obesity as cases surge
Child and adolescent obesity has quadrupled since 1990, rising from two per cent to around eight per cent of youngsters in the five-to-19 age...
Israeli demolition in East Jerusalem displaces 69 Palestinians
Sixty-nine Palestinians – more than half of them children – were displaced on Tuesday after Israeli authorities green lit the demolition of their residential...
A Strong Economy for Whom?
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — In his run-up to the midterm elections, the president is crisscrossing the country in an effort...
From drought to deluge: ‘Super’ El Niño’s expanding reach
Fast factsMore than 347 million children in nearly 100 countries and territories are expected to experience unusually wet or dry conditions between October and...
Djibouti faces ‘overlapping emergencies’ as Yemen’s refugee exodus continues
More than 3,700 refugees have reached the Horn of Africa nation in the past three weeks after a dangerous crossing of the Red Sea,...
‘Nothing can justify these atrocities,’ says Guterres three years on from 7 October attacks
In a message released on Monday, Mr. Guterres described an abhorrent, large-scale terror attack in which more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were...
‘The clock on AI regulation is ticking’, warns UN rights chief
Speaking in the UK at an AI and Human Rights Summit in Oxford on Monday, Mr. Türk said the technology could deliver dazzling advances...
More than 184,000 displaced as fighting intensifies in Yemen
In the week to 3 October alone, the International Organisation for Migration recorded nearly 21,800 people who had been displaced at least once –...
In Islamabad, Guterres calls for end to US-Iran conflict
“From Islamabad, I want to send a loud and clear message to all parties,” António Guterres told journalists in the capital.“End the conflict. Return to...
‘Ebola takes the people children depend on’: UNICEF
The update comes as neighbouring Kenya confirmed its first case and death from the disease, believed to have come from DRC. “Ebola takes the people...
When streets become pharmacies: Booming illicit markets in Central Africa
When medicines are scarce, unaffordable or simply too far away, illicit sellers have proved adept at filling the void.That is the dynamic described in...
The State of the Crisis in Haiti
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In this Special Edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” examines the state of the crisis in Haiti...
Security, sacrifice or opportunity: Visions differ over effective climate action
That question underpinned many of the speeches from global leaders at this year's High-level Week General Debate in New York, as climate change emerged as...
Extreme heat making pregnancy a ‘new fault line’ in climate crisis
Speaking in Fiji at an event organized by global charitable foundation Wellcome, ahead of the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, UNFCCC chief Simon Stiell said...
ICC unseals four arrest warrants over Taliban persecution of women and girls
In a decision on Monday, judges unsealed warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, whose existence was announced...
UN upholds housing as a human right on World Habitat Day
Representatives from governments, civil society and academia meeting in Muscat, Oman on Monday called for urgent action to address a global housing crisis affecting...
