Haitian children ‘paying the highest price’ amid surge in gang recruitment
Children now constitute around half of the gang members who have taken de facto control of large swathes of the country, Vanessa Frazier told journalists...
Gaza: Life-saving medicines blocked as killing continues, disease gains ground
Recently returned from a visit to the devastated enclave, Dr. Renee Van de Weerdt, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian...
Gaza risks ‘permanent’ state of limbo if transition plan stalls, Security Council hears
Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said the situation across the Occupied Palestinian Territory was becoming “increasingly precarious”,...
Right to strike protected under key labour treaty, says UN World Court
By 10 votes to four, the UN World Court ruled “the right to strike of workers and their organizations is protected” under the Freedom...
The Shackles Our Founders Warned Us About
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By Ben Jealous —
My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved....
Holding Malcolm X’s hand and remembering his energy
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By Herb Boyd, New York Amsterdam News —
By the time you read this, the organizations and individuals marking the 101st anniversary...
Reflective Gleanings From Our Histories of Resistance
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
The month of May is the month of Haji Malcolm X and also the month of African...
Building the smart city: Promise, pitfalls and the people at its heart
At a sprawling urban expo in Baku, visitors paused before giant digital screens flickering with flood simulations, subway control systems and virtual replicas of...
Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors debate future of Gaza amid stalled progress on lasting peace
The Security Council is discussing the stalled progress in Gaza as the fragile ceasefire there limps on, and deteriorating conditions across the West Bank...
General Assembly backs historic World Court climate crisis ruling
The Secretary-General said it makes clear Member States’ responsibility to protect their own people from what is an “escalating climate crisis”.The resolution drawn up...
Guterres condemns Israeli move to militarise seized compound in occupied East Jerusalem
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, the Secretary-General said the decision to use the Sheikh Jarrah compound of the UN agency assisting Palestine...
30,000 people flee fresh violence in Haiti as hunger crisis deepens
Much of the violence has been concentrated in Cité Soleil, an impoverished neighbourhood in the capital, where humanitarian workers are now seeking to provide...
Ebola outbreak: ‘Every epidemic begins in a community and ends in a community’
The UN health agency on Wednesday assessed there is a high risk from the Bundibugyo strain at the national and regional levels, but a low...
World News in Brief: Lives lost and aid destroyed in Ukraine, rainfall alert for...
Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth said at least two civilians were killed and many more were injured in the “horrific attack”, which also hit a UNHCR-contracted warehouse. Significant amounts of aid and shelter materials were destroyed. She extended her deepest condolences...
Flak jackets and final goodbyes: Lebanon’s first responders under fire
Recent attacks killed two Lebanese Red Cross volunteers: Youssef Assaf, who died during a rescue operation on 9 March, and Hassan Badawi, killed in...
Security Council reform ‘is absolutely essential’: Guterres
António Guterres was addressing a press conference on the final day of an official visit to Japan, which is marking 70 years of cooperation with the UN, and...
Security Council LIVE: Civilians in conflict under spotlight amid rising global toll
The Security Council meets today in New York for its annual open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict amid mounting concern...
Ebola risk is high inside DR Congo but it’s no pandemic emergency: WHO
In an update on the fast-developing situation in eastern DRC, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that beyond the several dozen...
Star-studded refugee football team takes the pitch for UN
The Gamechanging Team vividly highlights what is possible when displaced people condemned to a life on the run through no fault of their own,...
How the Hormuz crisis keeps disrupting kitchens, ports and paychecks
The fallout is being felt far beyond the Middle East, with UN agencies warning that rising fuel prices, disrupted shipping routes and growing financial...
World News in Brief: Geopolitical tensions impact global economy, Gaza aid funding shortfall, violence...
According to a new report released on Tuesday by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the global economy remained resilient at the start of 2026, supported by...
‘I had a good life and I lost it’: How one man survived four...
A former European Commission employee, Latyr had been living a stable middle-class life in Belgium. But that stability gave way to uncertainty almost overnight,...
Security Council LIVE: Concerns grow over nuclear safety after UAE drone strike
The UN Security Council is meeting in emergency session in New York to discuss the situation in the Middle East following reports of a...
Ukraine war ‘becoming deadlier by the day’, Security Council hears
“In the last week alone, we witnessed one of the largest aerial bombardments of Ukraine since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion in February 2022,”...
