UN must evolve to ‘stand strong’ for the next 80 years: General Assembly president
Speaking ahead of the start of high-level week, Annalena Baerbock underscored the importance of the UN Charter, the Organization’s founding document, and the need...
World News in Brief: Migrant medics mean shortages at home, UN names top innovators,...
A new UN health agency report also shows that in Europe in 2023, six in 10 medics trained outside the region, while the number...
UN News Today 17 September 2025 |
Afghanistan: 4 years since ban on girls’ secondary education beganIn Afghanistan, it has been four years since the ban on secondary education for girls...
‘The needs are huge’: Pakistan reels from floods as millions left homeless
More than six million people have been affected since the unusually heavy monsoon rains began in late June, with nearly 1,000 lives lost –...
Venezuelan migrants drive economic gains in Ecuador but face persistent vulnerabilities
“The evidence is clear: when migrants have access to rights and opportunities, they contribute substantially to the societies that host them,” said Kristina Mejo,...
Government corruption fuels human rights crisis in South Sudan, independent panel finds
Based on two years of independent investigations and analysis, the report reveals how oil and non-oil revenues are siphoned off through opaque schemes and...
UN News Today 16 September 2025 |
Independent rights panel finds Israel has committed genocide in GazaA Commission of Inquiry appointed by the UN Human Rights Council finds that Israel has...
Ahead of high-stakes General Assembly week, Guterres urges world leaders to ‘get serious –...
Speaking at a press conference at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday in New York, he warned that global divisions, conflicts and crises have left...
United Nations revises 2026 regular budget proposal, pairing cost reductions with initial reform measures
The revised estimates, communicated on Monday to the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), propose reductions of 15.1 per cent of resources...
UN’s humanitarian work is ‘underfunded, overstretched, and under attack’
Speaking on Monday to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York, Tom Fletcher who heads up the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
Deadly attacks and collapsing services push Sudan closer to catastrophe
According to local reports, heavy shelling and assaults late last week in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, killed at least six...
UN condemns ‘deadly escalation’ in Gaza City
The situation “is having an appalling impact on civilians enduring suffering and starvation,” he told journalists in New York.“The United Nations condemns the deadly...
For far too long, ‘poverty has disproportionately had a female face’: UN Women |
Five years away from the 2030 deadline, none of the global gender equality targets are on track. From poverty to conflict, the setbacks are...
World News in Brief: Pandemic treaty update, DR Congo Ebola response, more casualties in...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at the start of a meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, taking place in...
Gender equality: UN Women calls for political will and accelerated global action
The world is retreating from gender equality, and the cost is being counted in lives, rights, and opportunities. Five years from the Sustainable Development...
Asia-Pacific: Women’s groups keen to cooperate on gender-responsive climate resilience |
With just five years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), not a single gender equality target is on trackThe finding comes in...
Yemen: UN sounds alarm as famine, fighting and aid worker detentions exacerbate crisis
UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council on Monday that the turmoil in Yemen cannot be seen in isolation.“Yemen is both a...
Ukraine records highest toll from cluster munitions for third year running
According to the latest Cluster Munitions Monitor, more than 1,200 people are known to have been killed or maimed in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale...
UN News Today 15 September 2025 |
Ukraine records highest toll from cluster munitions for third year runningThe Ukrainian conflict has recorded the highest death and injury toll from cluster munitions...
Nepal appoints first woman prime minister, as UN expresses solidarity amid crisis
Ms. Karki, Nepal’s first woman Prime Minister, was appointed by President Ram Chandra Poudel who administered the oath of office in a ceremony attended...
UN warns of escalation risk after large-scale Russian drone incursion into Poland
She said it was not the first time drones had been spotted beyond Ukraine’s borders “but it is the first time that multiple drones...
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: NATO allies rally round Poland in face of Russian incursion, as...
The Security Council is meeting in emergency session at Poland’s request at 3pm in New York, after some 19 Russian drones violated their and...
‘Peace is the most powerful force for a better future’: Guterres
António Guterres issued the call during the annual ceremony on the grounds of UN Headquarters in New York to ring the Peace Bell.Pursuing the...
DPR Korea: UN report finds human rights situation still dire, a decade on
The rights office, OHCHR, interviewed 314 witnesses who left the DPRK – more commonly known as North Korea – and consulted with several organizations...
