Ukraine faces ‘unprecedented housing crisis’
More than 236,000 buildings have been destroyed or damaged during the war and over 2.5 million housing units – around 10 per cent of...
Restoring dignity to Gaza: the cleanup begins
Dozens of participants — including UN officials, volunteers, and residents who recently returned from the south of the Strip — took part in the...
‘Mobs’ target Palestinians in occupied West Bank, as floods roil Gaza
OHCHR condemned this week’s attacks as abhorrent and said they reflected a wider pattern of increased violence against Palestinians.Several people were reportedly injured in...
Security Council lays the ground in the race for the next Secretary-General
Governments will soon submit letters nominating candidates to lead the 80-year-old organization, whose top post is traditionally rotated among geographical regions – although all...
Indigenous protesters block COP30 entrance, demand action from Brazilian Government
The Munduruku, who live primarily in the Amazon states of Amazonas, Mato Grosso and Pará, are demanding an end to projects and extractive activities...
‘When finance flows, ambition grows”: COP30’s call for action
At every negotiation table and in every diplomatic statement lies a stark truth shared by nations on the front lines of the climate crisis:...
Healing the hidden wounds of childbirth
For women like 38-year-old Farhiya from rural Beletweyne, the consequences can be devastating — a painful obstetric fistula, a hole in the birth canal...
COP30: Climate crisis is a health crisis, WHO warns as philanthropies pledge $300m for...
The special report on health and climate change, published by the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and the Brazilian Government, warns that one in...
Ukraine: UN condemns latest deadly attack targeting civilians in Kyiv
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Matthias Schmale, deplored the latest wave of drones and missile strikes, which damaged or destroyed homes, medical facilities...
Sudan war: Aid teams plead for access to thousands trapped in El Fasher
That ordeal reduced people to eating peanut shells and animal feed, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday, before condemning the reported...
From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) is pressing negotiators to make climate mobility a core part of adaptation...
World News in Brief: Typhoon generation, disability rights in Myanmar, new refugee-led climate fund
After slamming into the island nation on 9 November with winds of around 185 kilometres per hour (or 115 miles per hour) leaving at...
Families in Sudan ‘running out of time’ as hunger spreads
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric provided the update during the regular briefing to journalists in New York on Thursday.The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary...
Ending UNWRA services would imperil political way forward: Lazzarini
Speaking to the General Assembly, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, argued that the agency is indispensable for the stability and rebuilding of the shattered Gaza...
Protecting lives in a warming world: Health takes centre stage at COP30
As climate negotiations continue in the Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, governments, UN agencies and partners have adopted the Belém Health Action Plan, placing an...
Ethiopia: UN supports response to potentially deadly virus outbreak
So far, eight possible cases have been reported in the South Ethiopia Region and laboratory testing is ongoing to determine the exact cause.Health workers...
Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft
Issuing a warning that the children’s sense of stability and security has been eroded as key everyday services have collapsed, humanitarians insist that young...
UN and African Union vow closer action for peace and development
António Guterres was speaking at UN Headquarters in New York following the ninth conference between the global body and the African Union (AU).The high-level...
‘A wave of truth’: COP30 targets disinformation threat to climate action
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva set the tone at the opening session, declaring that the battle for truth has become just as...
TB cases fall for first time since pandemic
Cases are on a downward trajectory for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.But a new report reveals while progress has been...
At-risk mountain vipers and iguanas, in rare company at key wildlife talks
Ethiopian mountain vipers, Galapagos iguanas and Brazil’s Pernambuco tree – prized by violin bow-makers - and are just three of the more than 30...
Sudan: Migration chief hears horrific accounts of exodus from El Fasher
“When people are coming out of the area, they are reporting widespread violence, sexual abuse, civilians who are sometimes being shot on sight,” said...
World News in Brief: Gaza latest, Americas loses measles-free status, tornado recovery in Brazil
The fuel is needed to power machinery for critical operations, including water, sanitation, hygiene, health and clearing rubble.
Education, nutrition and protection work will also...
Millions of lives at risk, warn UN food agencies, as hunger crisis worsens
A report released by the two UN agencies on Tuesday identifies six that are at the highest risk of famine or catastrophic hunger: Sudan, Palestine,...
