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...
The world comes to New York: What’s at stake at UN General Assembly high-level...
At a time of mounting geopolitical tensions and overlapping global crises, leaders will tackle a packed agenda that includes conflicts and international security, climate...
Security Council LIVE: Rising violence triggers emergency meeting on Yemen
The escalating conflict in Yemen is choking off aid shipments and driving fresh displacement, including to nearby Djibouti, with UN agencies reporting on Tuesday...
UNICEF says thousands of children require mental health support after Nepal floods
Triggered by glacier collapse, the 26 August floods affected more than 84,000 Nepalis – including about 32,000 children – and damaged critical roads, schools,...
Escalating conflict drives new displacement in Yemen
Key points93,864 individuals have been newly displaced across Yemen, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM)Rapidly escalating hostilities along Yemen’s western coast have forced...
Ebola responders grapple with widening outbreak in DR Congo
Key points7,200 Ebola cases and nearly 3,500 deaths reported Outbreak spreading across an area covering two time zones Insecurity, poor roads and funding gaps are hampering...
Ukraine: Attacks on education threaten an entire generation, UNICEF warns
It’s only 15 days into the new school year and already more than a thousand air raid alerts have sounded across the country, or...
World fears major war more than any other global risk, UN survey finds
The study draws on the views of 1,300 people from government, international organizations, civil society, the private sector and academia, spanning every region of...
Gaza remains recovery points to possible war crimes, says UN rights chief
The UN Human Rights High Commissioner said on Tuesday that this “painstaking” recovery effort raises serious questions about compliance with international law, and that...
