How El Niño offers a test of whether the world can adapt to a...
A chilly, wet Tuesday morning greeted presidents and prime ministers arriving at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Tuesday, as the 81st General...
UN rendered unable to fulfil its mission, Turkish President laments before world leaders
“The United Nations, established 81 years ago to maintain international peace and security, is no longer able to fulfil this mission,” Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Diplomacy is the way to address global challenges, Brazil tells General Assembly
Opening this year’s General Debate, the President – known to all as Lula – expressed his indignation at the widespread attacks taking place on...
Time to accept ‘hard truths’ so trust can be rebuilt: General Assembly President
Key points:The UN has grown from 50 Member States in 1945 to 193 today, but survival alone is not evidence of successGlobal military spending...
Trump defends military action against Iran, Venezuela, and calls for rebrand of AI
Calling Iran “the number one sponsor of terror,” the President devoted much of his speech to the Islamic Republic, arguing that his Administration had...
Guterres: ‘Cracks have become canyons’ as world faces four tests of power
Key pointsUN chief urges binding international cooperation on AI governance, warning that life-and-death decisions must never be handed to machinesCalls for Security Council reform,...
Displacement on the rise in Yemen as fighting continues
“Fighting in Yemen is expanding across multiple front lines, triggering a rapidly growing displacement crisis and driving more than 130,000 people to flee their...
Reflections and Opinions on 9/11 — Open Forum
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In this edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” hosts an Open Forum offering reflections and opinions on...
In Tanzania, the sea is moving inland – and taking livelihoods with it
Buga Steven can measure the advance of the sea in coconuts.There was a time when his trees yielded about 5,000 of them. Today, he...
Resolving the U.S.-Provoked Crisis in Cuba with James Early
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In this edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” speaks with James Early, consultant on cultural democracy and...
UN condemns attempted Houthi strike on Riyadh as Yemen displacement surges past 130,000
“We reiterate our condemnation of the continued Houthi cross‑border attacks against Saudi Arabia, including the attempt to target Riyadh,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told...
‘Nowhere is safe’: UN experts detail Ukraine war’s toll and Russia’s reach beyond its...
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, presenting an update to the council, said repeated Russian strikes on energy infrastructure are leaving Ukrainian civilians...
‘We are not powerless’: UN chief urges world leaders to invest in peace
“Achieving peace is not something that just happens,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a message for Monday’s International Day of Peace. “It is a...
Why climate action now comes down to speed, finance and cooperation
Just over a decade ago, the world was heading towards more than 4°C of warming over pre-industrial levels. Climate action since the Paris Agreement...
The right to development: Why equity, not charity, is a human right
Neither chose their circumstances. Yet, one will likely live decades longer, earn far more and have a meaningful say in the decisions that shape...
UN Crime Congress: Technology is transforming crime – and the response to it
Criminal networks now move money, goods and information across borders at lightning speed, exploiting everything from new technologies to global instability. Yet the same...
Why the UN General Assembly still matters
Richard Gowan, Director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group in New York, has spent years studying the organization – its...
‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons...
The top Bangladeshi diplomat and sitting foreign minister has staked his one-year presidency on a single ambition: restoring trust. It’s a theme he returns to...
Security Council LIVE: UN peacekeeping under pressure
UN peacekeepers have increasingly been sent into places where there is no peace to keep – under resourced, outgunned and exposed to violence they...
Sexual violence against civilians and POW’s in Ukraine widespread and ‘abhorrent’
That’s according to a new UN human rights office (OHCHR) report which details violations including gang rape, rape, genital mutilation, electric shocks and beatings to...
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible
The West African country has increased domestic revenue by 0.5 per cent of GDP each year for the past decade, issued Africa’s first SDG...
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak
This is evident in the city of Bunia, epicentre of the crisis, said Dr. Setcheme Mongbo, UN Women Representative in the DRC, speaking on...
Haiti: Child malnutrition crisis worsens amid escalating violence
It estimates that 93,873 children will experience severe acute malnutrition, a potentially life-threatening condition requiring urgent treatment, while another 159,852 children are expected to suffer from moderate acute...
Nepal floods: ‘Apocalyptic’ destruction signals wider climate threat across Himalayas
The warning comes from Sara Netzer, regional director with UN field operations office UNOPS, which provides infrastructure, procurement and project management services across the...
