Gang-controlled streets, shuttered newsrooms: How violence is eroding Haiti’s media
The Caribbean island nation is faced with widespread insecurity as well as deepening poverty.Some 1.4 million people have been forced to flee their homes,...
‘Real impact on the ground’ needed as Indonesia backs UN reform
The UN80 Initiative is a system-wide reform effort to make the UN more effective, coherent and better equipped to deliver results in a changing worldOn...
World News in Brief: Aung San Suu Kyi released from prison, Israel’s new death...
The UN Secretary-General took note of the move in a statement, reiterating his call for the swift and unconditional release of all those arbitrarily...
Nuclear fears resurface among younger generations amid global tensions
For decades, the possibility of the Soviet Union and United States starting a civilisation-ending nuclear confrontation was the pre-eminent fear of many people growing...
Artemis II astronauts underscore our shared humanity, in historic UN visit
Their visit on Thursday followed a long-standing tradition – cosmonauts and astronauts have been coming to the UN for decades to speak about peace, international cooperation, and our shared global future. The...
Attacks on media workers must end, UN urges
Volker Türk highlighted growing threats to the media in a message ahead of World Press Freedom Day, observed annually on 3 May. “When attacks on the media are normalised, freedom itself...
Middle East crisis puts aid, food, fuel further out of reach for millions already...
Heightened insecurity and instability around key Gulf routes, including the Strait of Hormuz, are driving up prices of basic goods and delaying the delivery...
Sudanese journalists awarded UNESCO press freedom prize
The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate is the latest recipient of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in recognition of the role it has played in condemning the deliberate...
MIDDLE EAST LIVE 1 May: Strain on food, fuel and aid systems continues
Strain on food, fuel and aid systems continues as the global impacts of the Middle East crisis deepen. Rising oil prices, supply disruptions and...
World News in Brief: Displacement in South Sudan, fraud centres in the Philippines, new...
Since the start of 2026, according to the UN migration agency, IOM, more than 300,000 people have been forced from their homes, with repeated...
Lebanon strikes deepen crisis as hunger rises and conditions worsen in Gaza
The UN relief coordination office, OCHA, cited reports from Lebanese authorities that at least 13 people were also injured in multiple airstrikes and military...
DPRK Korea: Continued militarisation a ‘serious concern’, political affairs chief warns Security Council
It comes after the DPRK – more commonly known as North Korea – launched a new five-year military development plan this year, which is...
Hormuz disruption deepens energy shock through vulnerable regions
Southeast Asia and South Asia were first to be impacted by the most severe energy crisis in a generation, said Dario Liguti from the...
Central Asia celebrates 20 years as a nuclear-weapon-free zone
The accord, which brought together Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, enshrines the voluntary commitment of these States not to develop, acquire, test or...
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2015 nuclear deal ‘no basis’ for any new agreement with Iran
Rafael Mariano Grossi was speaking during a press conference at UN Headquarters held on the margins of the latest international review of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty...
World News in Brief: Europe warming twice as fast, acute hunger in Lebanon, peacekeepers...
In a joint report with Copernicus Climate Change Service, the WMO spotlights key changes across Europe, which is the world’s fastest warming continent with temperatures...
UN80 Initiative: Real progress made on tackling complex issues facing the UN system
The details of the guide were presented at the latest General Assembly briefing on the UN80 proposals – the fourth such meeting so far...
AI in advertising risks fuelling misinformation crisis, UN warns
In a new brief titled Strengthening Information Integrity: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and the Global Information Crisis, the Department of Global Communications and the Conscious...
UN rights chief warns of escalating crackdown in Iran amid conflict
Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said he was “appalled that – on top of the already severe impacts of the...
Over half of South Sudan’s population faces acute hunger crisis
Hunger is pushing 56 per cent of South Sudan’s population into high levels of acute food insecurity between April and July 2026, reaching Phase...
Iran crisis shows fossil fuels-based energy system ‘is inherently volatile and unstable’
The last major UN climate conference (COP30 in Brazil) broke up without a breakthrough agreement on phasing out coal, oil and gas – but...
From Hormuz to Lebanon, crisis reverberates through trade routes, upending humanitarian networks
Addressing the agency’s governing body in Rome on Tuesday, Director-General Qu Dongyu said the closure of key maritime routes is disrupting energy supplies, fertilizer...
