Women leaders unite to advance gender equality, defend multilateralism amid growing global pushback
The Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed recently convened women leaders who met in Manhasset, Long Island, for the fifth year, to reaffirm their collective...
World News in Brief: Lebanon peacekeeper deaths, Haiti mission support, drought and conflict in...
“These incidents are unacceptable and demand full accountability,” he said after the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, suffered three fatalities within 24 hours...
Middle East war: UN’s Türk decries ‘severe restrictions’ on free speech
“Repression of civic space and freedom of expression has significantly deepened across the Middle East, compounding the already existing climate of fear unleashed by...
Breaking the Gaza aid bottleneck: 106-tonne delivery arrives via new sea route
The consignment through the WHO Humanitarian Bridge Initiative in Cyprus arrived at Ashdod port in Israel and is being prepared for onward distribution to the devastated enclave. “This shipment marks a...
Middle East war: Energy crunch hits vulnerable nations
And with Brent Crude still trading at more than $100 per barrel, many workers and households have reverted to using oil and coal, raising...
Dr. Joy DeGruy — A Phenomenal Black Woman
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In this Women’s History Month edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” speaks with Dr. Joy DeGruy, author...
UN General Assembly adopts landmark resolution to strengthen the work of the UN system
The move marks a major milestone under the UN80 Initiative, a system-wide reform effort to make the UN more effective, coherent and better equipped...
Lebanon at ‘breaking point’ as displacement soars and strikes intensify
Briefing ambassadors from Beirut, Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher said he arrived to find “anxiety and tensions at levels I have not witnessed in...
Lebanon: The UN peacekeepers helping communities who’ve stayed behind
“It's extremely volatile, extremely dangerous, and you know, we see the situation for us as peacekeepers, also for the civilians who remain in certain...
Syria: Hundreds of thousands flee Lebanon, vital food aid blocked
Speaking from Damascus, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)’s representative in Syria, Asseer Al-Madaien, said that the country has seen a “sharp rise” in people...
‘No precedent’ for seafarers caught in war zone in post-WW2 era
The seafarers are working on some 2,000 ships including oil and gas tankers, bulk carriers, cargo ships as well as six tourist cruise liners.The...
MIDDLE EAST LIVE: Vital food aid blocked, aid agencies warn over Sudan fallout
More than a month since war erupted in the Middle East, UN agencies confirmed on Tuesday that huge numbers of people have returned to...
Airstrike on funeral underscores rising civilian toll in Sudan
Seven people were killed and dozens injured when an airstrike hit a funeral gathering in the Nuba Mountains in West Kordofan last Friday, according...
UN condemns killing of two more peacekeepers in Lebanon
Two Indonesian peacekeepers were killed on Monday, and two more were injured, in an explosion that hit a UNIFIL logistics convoy, destroying their vehicle.
The incident took place near Bani Hayyan in southern...
The image from Gaza that still haunts me: Palestine relief agency chief
“No doubt that I have mixed feelings today,” he says. “Bitterness, because I have been at the forefront over the last two years of...
World News in Brief: Ukraine drone attacks, Afghan rights, Zero-Waste Day
In a night of further terror for civilians, on 28 March, a drone strike hit the Odesa Maternity Hospital No.5 with dozens of pregnant...
Developing countries are being priced out, in struggle for affordable finance
A credit rating is an assessment of how likely a borrower, such as a government, is to repay its debt on time and in...
Sea mines clearance: A new dimension of difficulty
It is still not clear whether mines, which can sink vessels of all types if activated, have been deployed in the Strait of Hormuz,...
MIDDLE EAST LIVE 30 March: UN peacekeeper killed amid Israel-Hezbollah clashes
Further attacks have been reported across the Middle East as the war enters a second month, with one UN peacekeeper killed in Lebanon on...
UN peacekeeper killed, another seriously injured, in southern Lebanon
The blue helmet from Indonesia was deployed with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which reported that a projectile exploded at its position...
Middle East war: UN initiatives support mediation efforts, ‘lifesaving’ fertiliser shipments
The humanitarian fallout continues to deepen and is exacerbated by the number of deaths, injuries and damage to civilian infrastructure, and the severe impacts...
Kidnapped and tortured on an infamous migration route to Saudi Arabia
When Jamal, an Ethiopian man in his early thirties, set out along what has become known as the eastern route, he was not chasing...
The Uneven Rise of Women in the U.S. Senate
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
In the more than two-century history of the United States Senate, Black women have been almost entirely...
A Complementary and Species-Compelling Need
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
As we close out two months of commemoration and celebration of the history of our people, I...
