Flower of Srebrenica takes root at the United Nations
“Our children were murdered just because they bore a different name, they were called differently, and they were Muslim,” said Munira Subašić, President of...
UNHCR urges balance as UK unveils new asylum proposals
The UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood formally announced the measures on Monday, aimed at tightening controls on irregular arrivals while maintaining the country’s commitment...
Security Council LIVE: US hails ‘historic and constructive resolution’ on Gaza
The Security Council has passed a US-backed resolution which will establish an international force to restore order in Gaza, protect civilians and open the...
UN aid office pushes for ‘unhindered’ humanitarian access in Sudan
In recent days the Emergency Relief Coordinator has travelled to various parts of the war-torn country and met leaders, frontline responders and survivors of...
UN opposes death penalty but pushes for justice in Bangladesh
In its response to the verdict, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) reiterated its opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances.Last July, student protests...
Conflict and hunger ‘two faces of the same crisis’, UN deputy chief tells Security...
“This Council's mandate is maintenance of international peace and security, and there can be neither peace where people are starving, nor security where hunger...
Security Council to vote on new Gaza force: Here’s what you need to know
The proposal building on the 20-point US plan is intended to restore security, ensure humanitarian access and begin a sustained process of reconstruction and institutional reform...
On Brazil’s Combu Island, chocolate makers hold clues to climate action
But this lush harmony carries a warning. If negotiators at COP30 hope to protect the world’s forests, they must first safeguard the people who...
Lebanon: UN peacekeeping patrol targeted by Israeli tank, IDF blames ‘misidentification’
According to the UN peacekeeping mission, bursts of heavy artillery hit an area just five meters away from the UNIFIL blue helmets, who had...
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...
