Human rights groups urged to ‘unite more than ever’ in efforts to end racism
Martin Kimani, chairperson of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, presented its annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva during...
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...
UN rights chief: AI misuse and corporate influence present ‘clear and present’ challenge
Opening the 14th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva on Monday, he said that corporate power has become increasingly influential in...
DR Congo emergency: next 24 hours are critical, warn UN agencies
Dead bodies lie in the streets, hospitals are overwhelmed and there has been an uptick in reports of sexual violence, rape and looting.“Roads are...
UN officials remember brutal 7 October attacks, reiterate need for peace
“That day left deep scars on individuals, families, and the collective memory of the State of Israel and the world,” said Tor Wennesland, UN...
Gaza: 875 people confirmed dead trying to source food in recent weeks
“As of 13 July, we have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food; 674 of them were killed in the...
UN rights office calls for more action to combat ‘senseless criminality’ in Haiti
Tackling insecurity in the Caribbean country must be the utmost priority, the report said, urging the authorities and the international community to do more...
Guterres calls for probe into death of WFP staff member detained in Yemen
“Heartbroken and outraged by the tragic loss of WFP team member, Ahmed, who lost his life while arbitrarily detained in Yemen,” Executive Director Cindy...
New horror in Gaza as double strike on school shelter kills 30
The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, maintained that Israeli forces hit the school in Al Bureij, Middle Gaza, at around 6pm on Tuesday...
Peace proves relative in Gaza with no let-up in deadly airstrikes
“The Security Council resolution is very clear about not calling anything a border or anything else, it is about a territory that needs to...
World News in Brief: Uganda’s refugee funding crisis, academic freedom tested in Serbia, rural...
Uganda has a progressive refugee policy which enables refugees to work and access public services. This coupled with its geographic proximity to crises has...
World News in Brief: Security Council Libya resolution, cyclone recovery in Mozambique, Marburg virus...
The resolution authored by the United Kingdom was passed by 14 votes with none against – permanent Council member Russia abstained.It introduces new provisions...
US aid cuts will make world ‘less healthy, less safe and less prosperous’: Guterres
“These cuts impact a wide range of critical programmes,” he told reporters at the UN Headquarters in New York, highlighting the potential disruption to...
Fight to end AIDS: ‘This is not just a funding gap – it’s a...
The 2025 Global AIDS Update released on Thursday by UNAIDS – the global body’s agency fighting AIDS and HIV infection – warns that a...
Biblical Creation’s Critics Will Need a New Argument. Award-Winning American Scientist Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel’s...
Award-winning scientist Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel (www.Israel120.com) publishes the historic equations mainstream cosmology spent centuries insisting could not exist — and the numbers match Genesis exactly:...
Sudan: After 1,000 days of war, millions of civilians still bearing brunt
Latest UN data indicates that 9.3 million people have been uprooted by conflict across the country and more than 4.3 million have fled across...
World News in Brief: Ending famine, refugee solidarity in Kenya, Ukraine civilian casualties update
In an alert, Cindy McCain – who heads the World Food Programme (WFP) – attributed a “dangerous and deepening global hunger crisis” to violent...
US: Rights experts urge Senate to reject bill sanctioning the International Criminal Court
The ICC issued arrest warrants in November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and...
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...
Gaza: Hospitals closed, aid denied, civilians trapped
A stark example of this escalation was highlighted by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who confirmed that the...
Gaza: UN warns of ‘weaponised hunger’ and growing death toll amid food chaos
Speaking to journalists in Deir al Balah on Saturday, Jonathan Whittall, who heads the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) in Gaza and the West...
Deputy UN chief demands action to protect vulnerable migrants
“Migration is not just a statistic; it is the lived experience of women, men and children, each with unique identities and vulnerabilities – pursuing...
Ukraine: Families in ‘survival mode’ amid Russian strikes and deadly cold
“Families have actually reverted to stuffing even soft toys to their windows to block some of the freezing cold,” said Munir Mammadzade, UNICEF Country...
Sudan emergency: We need more help to prevent famine, says WFP
“Over the past six months, WFP scaled up assistance and we are now reaching nearly one million Sudanese in Khartoum with food and nutrition...
