Iraq unveils historic migration plan to boost development and stability
Unveiled on Wednesday, it creates new opportunities for work, education and family reunification, while strengthening migration governance and placing migration at the heart of...
MIDDLE EAST LIVE: Security Council set to meet on Syria
While the war in Gaza grinds on with dozens of civilians already reportedly killed and injured so far this year - and as the...
UN rights chief adds voice to urgent calls for Middle East de-escalation
The development came as UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned “escalation after escalation” in the Middle East on Tuesday and as UN High Commissioner for...
‘The people of Haiti are in a perfect storm of suffering,’ warns UN chief
Six million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, while 1.3 million people – half of them children – having been forced to flee...
The Epstein files: Rights experts demand accountability, call for probe into trafficking allegations
The Human Rights Council-appointed experts also issued a general warning over the “continuing violence of patriarchal power systems” revealed in the files, which the...
UN provides emergency cash injection for global crisis hotspots
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts in Yemen ($20 million) and Ethiopia ($15 million), where desperate civilians are grappling...
West Bank: UN report warns of ‘systematic asphyxiation’ of Palestinian rights
The report by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, documents what it describes as a decades-long system of discrimination that has sharply intensified since...
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...
Sudan war: Hundreds of thousands flee renewed violence in North Darfur
Renewed attacks on camps – including Zamzam and Abu Shouk – that were sheltering those displaced by earlier violence have now forced an estimated...
Hunger stalks Ethiopia as UN aid agency halts support amid funding cuts
In total, 3.6 million “most vulnerable” people in Ethiopia stand to lose WFP food and nutrition assistance unless funding arrives urgently, warned Zlatan Milisic,...
Gaza: Health system crumbles amid growing desperation over food, fuel
“Definitely, people get shot,” said Gaza-based medic Dr. Luca Pigozzi, WHO Emergency Medical Team Coordinator. “They are victim of blast injuries as well and...
From Libyan deserts to 3D-printed guns: The weapons that never go away
The issue is under scrutiny as delegates gather at UN Headquarters this week to tackle the global spread of illicit firearms – weapons that...
Resettlement changed her life. Now she’s fighting for others to have the same chance
Currently, she’s a qualified refugee and human rights lawyer in New Zealand – but on Tuesday she recalled becoming displaced aged 14 and described...
International aid: ‘The money isn’t coming back anytime soon’, Fletcher warns
UN News: You have said that that policymakers who signed off on aid cuts should come to Afghanistan to see the effect they're having...
Concerns raised about ‘coercive’ repatriation of Burundian refugees from Tanzania
As of the end of November 2025, there were over 140,000 Burundian refugees in neighbouring Tanzania, who have fled over years of civil unrest...
Gaza flotilla: Aid delivery ‘not a crime’, UN rights office tells Israel
In a statement issued in Geneva, OHCHR spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said activists Saif Abukeshek and Thiago de Avila were detained in international waters and...
Sudan war: World urged not to ignore ‘gruesome sexual violence’
Issued by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, the report describes how civilians - including many from besieged El Fasher - endured torture and...
Afghanistan quake: Rescuers arrive on foot, survivors need everything
Latest updates from UN assessment teams who reached affected communities in mountainous Ghazi Abad district on foot on Tuesday underscored the urgent need to...
DR Congo aid operation reaches Beni with food supplies for thousands
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that trucks packed with cereals, beans and cooking oil reached the city of Beni in North Kivu...
Yemen: One in two children severely malnourished after 10 years of war
“We need to move fast,” said UNICEF representative in the country Peter Hawkins. “I was in Hudaydah over the past three days...I went through...
World News in Brief: Myanmar airstrikes worsen crisis, South Sudan fighting threatens Akobo, Afghan...
The warning came against the backdrop of reports of fresh airstrikes by the military on a trading junction in the central Magway region. According...
Scientifically unchaining the power of the turbulence code that cracked the universe formation –...
Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com).
Scientists and engineers have long known that cracking the code of turbulence would be highly gratifying, but they did not know...
Sudan: UN chief condemns deadly strikes on children’s nursery, hospital
In a statement issued by his Spokesperson, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that he was appalled to learn that multiple drone strikes on 4 December...
Scientifically unchaining the power of the turbulence code that cracked the universe formation
Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com).
Scientists and engineers have long known that cracking the code of turbulence would be highly gratifying, but they did not know...
