Lebanon–Israel tensions escalate as Gaza sees major aid delivery
Meanwhile, in Gaza, humanitarian teams collected hundreds of pallets of aid – including infant food and school bags – as the World Health Organization...
Gloria Steinem: A voice for women, to the very end
Following news of her death, UN News revisits a powerful moment from Ms. Steinem's appearance at UN Headquarters in New York in 2016, when...
Security Council LIVE: Addressing the legacy of Syria’s chemical weapons
Following revelations from the UN nuclear watchdog that the former Syrian regime failed to report holding nuclear material and the discovery in May of...
Outside forces fuel Sudan war, new report finds
This action is strengthening the military capabilities of the warring parties and enabling increasingly sophisticated military operations with devastating consequences for civilians, according to...
El Niño is surging. Months of extreme heat could follow
El Niño is strengthening rapidly in the Pacific Ocean, raising the prospect of months of extreme heat, floods, drought, and disruptive weather around the...
Nepal floods leave 22,000 children without safe water: UNICEF
Water systems have been damaged across affected districts, while toilets and other sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed, raising the risk of waterborne...
One in five children in 21 nations faced tech-facilitated sexual abuse: UNICEF
Key pointsNearly 60 per cent of cases occurred on social mediaMany children do not report abuseUNICEF calls for safer platforms and stronger lawsMore than...
Repression of political opposition surges in post-election Zambia
Reports indicate alarming systemic violence, including widespread intimidation and the arrest of hundreds of opposition supporters, many of whom have been held beyond legally...
‘Don’t give up’: Syrian women’s ongoing search for the missing
She found a picture of her brother, Uqba, among the “Caesar photos”, a cache of images smuggled out of Syria in 2013 documenting the...
World News in Brief: US-Iran war intensifies, aid for Myanmar, casualties in Ukraine
The US military struck rocket launchers on an island in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, days after US President Donald Trump announced...
Sudan: Air attack destroys food aid for families in South Kordofan
The UN agency strongly condemned the attack which occurred on 30 August outside the city of Dilling.The trucks carried 50 metric tonnes of WFP...
‘Fight for humanity’: Avoiding a climate catastrophe means acting now
Key pointsRapid, collective and global action is vital to cap the temperature rise at 1.5°CClimate action can reverse current trend by slashing methane pollution,...
Food aid cutback in the occupied West Bank as health fears grow in Gaza
“We’re running out of funding, and that means that from today, some 200,000 people will lose access to critical assistance,” Shaun Hughes, WFP country...
At SCO summit In Kyrgyzstan, Guterres calls for more representative global governance
Addressing the SCO summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the Secretary-General said shifting global power dynamics present an opportunity to build more representative international institutions and...
Decades of war have left ‘depth and breadth’ of trauma across Afghanistan, UN finds
Afghanistan has endured over 40 years of continuous warfare, causing widespread death, displacement and destruction.Between 2009 and 2021 – as fighting ground on between...
Gary, Indiana, Recovers After Weeks-Long Power Outage
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Gary Mayor Eddie Melton discusses the storm’s impact, the prolonged blackout and calls to strengthen the city’s electrical infrastructure.
Democracy Now! reports...
Nepal floods: Mounting death toll and concern for women and girls
The death toll currently stands at 987 while 4,247 people remain missing, Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN aid coordination office OCHA, said on...
Ron Daniels on the 1972 Gary Convention and March on Washington
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Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, joined Democracy Now! to reflect on the historic...
Dr. Ron Daniels’ “Dream” Speech for the March on Washington
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In this edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” asks, “What If I Spoke at This Year’s March...
Nepal flooding deaths surpass 900 as needs climb
Key pointsRecent flash flooding is now Nepal’s deadliest natural disaster since the April 2015 earthquake65,000 people require emergency water, sanitation and hygieneMore than 10,000...
‘Slavery is not a thing of the past’: UN supports call for reparations
The committee is calling on States to implement comprehensive restorative justice, combining compensation, restitution, rehabilitation and structural reforms.The passage of time cannot serve as...
‘Every step towards disarmament matters,’ nuclear testing survivors warn
Artist and anti-nuclear activist Karipbek Kuyukov walked through the halls of UN Headquarters in New York on Monday alongside diplomats, scientists and survivors, carrying...
‘The lake is our life’: Protecting a shared lifeline in Uganda
But, behind these daily activities lies an increasingly visible threat: plastic waste and other debris entering Lake Albert.Leaders of the local fishing community are...
As the Himalayas melt, deadly floods become the new normal
For the 40-year-old climate researcher, who grew up in the hills of eastern Nepal and now studies mountain hazards at the United Nations University...
