Middle East war risks undermining Syria’s fragile recovery, Security Council hears
Claudio Cordone, the Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, and Joyce Msuya of the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed ambassadors alongside Syrian Olympic athlete Yusra Mardini, a Goodwill Ambassador with the...
MIDDLE EAST LIVE 18 March: Lebanon displacement tops one million as nuclear safety concerns...
The crisis in the Middle East continues, with strikes and counterstrikes reported across the region as the humanitarian toll rises. UN agencies warn that...
Nearly 5 million children are still dying annually before their fifth birthday: Here’s why
Most of these deaths are preventable with proven, low-cost interventions and access to quality health care, the report stresses.For the first time, the analysis...
‘No matter what’, UN Women vows to stay in Afghanistan, amid deepening rights crisis
The agency is operating in what it describes as the world’s most severe women’s rights crisis, where women are nearly four times less likely...
World News in Brief: West Bank displacement, Cuba fuel crisis, Sexual abuse safeguards, New...
According to the UN human rights office, UNHCR, more than 36,000 Palestinians were displaced in the year to October 2025 amid intensifying settlement activity...
Reimagining Public Safety and Law Enforcement—Action Agenda
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Action Items
I. Establish the Police Justice and Accountability Commission
To serve as a Think Tank to conduct research on local, state and...
Afghanistan: UN condemns deadly attack on rehab centre in Kabul
“A reported overnight strike on the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Facility in Kabul, managed by the Ministry of Interior, killed more than 400 people, and...
Middle East war risks pushing 45 million more people into acute hunger
“The Secretary-General asserts once more that the war in the Middle East must stop,” said António Guterres in a statement issued by the UN Spokesperson’s Office...
MIDDLE EAST LIVE 17 March: Crisis impact ripples across region
The crisis in the Middle East has entered its third week, with fighting continuing across the region and humanitarian needs rising. Oil prices continue...
‘Hope’ for Haiti’s political future as some 300 groups reportedly register for upcoming elections
Elections have not been held since a protracted electoral cycle from 2015-2017 which brought the late President Jovenel Moïse to power. Haiti has not had...
Deepfakes, voice cloning and weaponised AI: Global wake-up call to organised fraud
“The scammer was extraordinarily believable,” Kim Sawyer, a former university professor in Melbourne, said. “He had a British accent, used all the right financial...
World News in Brief: Deadly drone strikes in Sudan, families killed in West Bank,...
Two people were reportedly killed in a strike on the town of Al Rahad, southeast of El Obeid in North Kordofan, where a hospital...
Guterres urges action against ‘rising tide of anti-Muslim hatred’
As conflict and instability rage, “millions of Muslims around the world carry that pain with them,” said António Guterres marking the International Day to Combat Islamophobia:...
‘Glimmer of hope’ in Haiti amid shifting gang frontlines
At least 1.4 million people largely in the capital Port-au-Prince, have been forced to flee their homes due to gang violence, creating what the...
Middle East war’s ‘spiral of conflict’ drives mounting civilian toll
The fighting – which has included Iranian drone and missile attacks on Gulf States and Israeli attacks on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after the...
MIDDLE EAST LIVE 16 March: UN scales up aid as crisis deepens into third...
The crisis in the Middle East has entered its third week, with fighting continuing across the region and humanitarian needs rising. Oil prices remain...
Middle East crisis: UN health agency releases emergency funds for Lebanon, Iraq, Syria
The funds based on donor contributions will help strengthen emergency coordination, trauma care and disease surveillance, the UN agency said on Sunday, while also...
War-driven energy price spikes highlight value of renewables: UN climate chief
Speaking at the 2026 Green Growth Summit in Brussels, Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said the...
A Market-Based Approach to Affordability and Fairness
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How free-market reforms can lower costs and eliminate discriminatory pricing for all New Yorkers
An important report examining the growing auto insurance...
The State of the #MeToo Movement in the Era of Trump and Epstein Files...
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Monday, March 16, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET
In this Women’s History Month edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the...
In Beirut, Guterres demands end to Middle East war: Civilians ‘deserve to live without...
Speaking to reporters in the capital Beirut following two weeks of widespread destruction triggered by the US and Israeli bombing of Iran, António Guterres...
World News in Brief: Attacks on synagogues, Syria’s continuing rights violations, shocking abuse of...
In Belgium, a powerful explosion on Monday outside a historic synagogue in Liege caused significant damage. Three synagogues across Canada were attacked in separate...
Myanmar at a ‘crossroads’: The world must not forsake civilians there, urges UN expert
Presenting his final report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the outgoing Special Rapporteur who examines conditions in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, urged...
UN chief launches major humanitarian appeal from war-torn Lebanon
“I am here on a visit of solidarity with the people of Lebanon,” he said. “Solidarity in words must be matched by solidarity in...
