United Nations revises 2026 regular budget proposal, pairing cost reductions with initial reform measures
The revised estimates, communicated on Monday to the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), propose reductions of 15.1 per cent of resources...
UN’s humanitarian work is ‘underfunded, overstretched, and under attack’
Speaking on Monday to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York, Tom Fletcher who heads up the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
Deadly attacks and collapsing services push Sudan closer to catastrophe
According to local reports, heavy shelling and assaults late last week in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, killed at least six...
UN condemns ‘deadly escalation’ in Gaza City
The situation “is having an appalling impact on civilians enduring suffering and starvation,” he told journalists in New York.“The United Nations condemns the deadly...
World News in Brief: Pandemic treaty update, DR Congo Ebola response, more casualties in...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at the start of a meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, taking place in...
IAEA chief urges countries to recommit to nuclear non-proliferation
He stressed that their support for the non-proliferation regime, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), and the IAEA, is crucial.“I urge Member States to recommit...
Gender equality: UN Women calls for political will and accelerated global action
The world is retreating from gender equality, and the cost is being counted in lives, rights, and opportunities. Five years from the Sustainable Development...
Yemen: UN sounds alarm as famine, fighting and aid worker detentions exacerbate crisis
UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council on Monday that the turmoil in Yemen cannot be seen in isolation.“Yemen is both a...
Ukraine records highest toll from cluster munitions for third year running
According to the latest Cluster Munitions Monitor, more than 1,200 people are known to have been killed or maimed in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale...
UN’s Guterres condemns gang attack in Haiti that killed at least 40
The overnight assault on11 September is the latest in a string of brutal incidents and ongoing gang violence that have plagued the country since...
Nepal appoints first woman prime minister, as UN expresses solidarity amid crisis
Ms. Karki, Nepal’s first woman Prime Minister, was appointed by President Ram Chandra Poudel who administered the oath of office in a ceremony attended...
UN warns of escalation risk after large-scale Russian drone incursion into Poland
She said it was not the first time drones had been spotted beyond Ukraine’s borders “but it is the first time that multiple drones...
Gaza: International community must ‘match words with action’ now
Olga Cherevko, Spokesperson in Gaza for the UN aid coordination office OCHA, warned that history will not judge the international community “based on the...
‘Deadly floods’ displace over 100,000 in South Sudan
In recent weeks, widespread flooding has engulfed large parts of Jonglei, Upper Nile and Unity states in the north of the country.The agency’s representative...
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: NATO allies rally round Poland in face of Russian incursion, as...
The Security Council is meeting in emergency session at Poland’s request at 3pm in New York, after some 19 Russian drones violated their and...
General Assembly endorses New York Declaration on two-State solution between Israel and Palestine
The New York Declaration is the outcome of an international conference held in July at UN Headquarters, organized by France and Saudi Arabia, which...
‘Peace is the most powerful force for a better future’: Guterres
António Guterres issued the call during the annual ceremony on the grounds of UN Headquarters in New York to ring the Peace Bell.Pursuing the...
DPR Korea: UN report finds human rights situation still dire, a decade on
The rights office, OHCHR, interviewed 314 witnesses who left the DPRK – more commonly known as North Korea – and consulted with several organizations...
Voting Rights Anniversary — By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD
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By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD —
August 6, 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of...
Security Council to meet following Russia’s violation of Polish airspace, as concern mounts over...
The meeting was requested by Poland after reporting that at least 19 violations by Russian drones of its territory overnight into Wednesday during a...
Afghanistan: Lifesaving services cut as Taliban bars women aid workers
“All of us at the United Nations are suffering from a reinforcement of the ban on females working with us…We are simply unable to...
Sudan: As children continue to suffer, school remains a distant hope
After more than two years of civil war, more than 25 million people are now acutely hungry and at least 20 million require health services...
Being Our Own First-Responders and Self-Savers
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
It is a fundamental teaching and uncontested contention in Kawaida philosophy that there is an endless library...
DOJ’s Threat to Asheville Exposes Hypocrisy in America’s War Against Black Reparations
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By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. —
The U.S. Department of Justice has fired a dangerous shot across the bow of Asheville, North Carolina,...