UN News Today 19 March 2025 |
Gaza latest: UN staffer killed at UNOPS premises in as-yet unconfirmed strikeGaza news first, and reports that a UN staff member has been killed...
Syria: We will continue to respond wherever we can, says UN aid chief
“We will respond wherever, whenever, however we can to support people in need, including reception centres – food, water, fuel, tents, blankets,” said Tom...
Report highlights links between child trafficking and grave violations during conflict
The report – the first of its kind – analyses the links between child trafficking and the six grave violations against children caught up...
PODCAST: The link between migration, the climate crisis, and human rights |
It is becoming increasingly clear that the climate crisis is having a major impact on migration flows, with millions forced to move from their...
‘Risk is changing very quickly’, says UN disaster risk reduction chief |
The recently adopted Pact for the Future has been hailed as a significant milestone in global efforts to promote a disaster risk-informed approach to sustainable...
Raising the roof: Building resilience through conserving historic homes in the Philippines
In July 2022, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake shook the northwestern Philippines, killing 11 people and injuring nearly 600 others. The quake and its aftershocks caused an...
UN rights chief calls on South Sudan’s warring parties to end renewed fighting
At least 75 civilians have been killed in hostilities between the national army (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) – which...
A letter from a mother in Gaza: Hardships, heartbreak and hope
That day was in November 2023, around a month into the war in Gaza. Ala’a is among an estimated 155,000 pregnant women and new mothers...
UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ human rights crisis in Myanmar as violence and economic collapse...
Published ahead of the Human Rights Council’s upcoming session, the report highlighted the worsening situation since the military coup in 2021, which derailed Myanmar’s...
Post-Assad Syria faces critical test over eliminating chemical weapons
Briefing ambassadors, Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, welcomed steps taken by the country’s new authorities to engage with the Organisation for...
UN News Today 28 August 2024 |
West Bank strikes: UN rights office condemns Israeli military escalationAmid further raids, airstrikes and settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on...
PODCAST: Breaking the silence of poverty |
It’s been thirty years since the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to create the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on 17...
UN News Today 17 February 2025 |
UN launches $6 billion Sudan appeal - ‘one of most devastating crises of our time’More than one in two people in war-torn Sudan have...
PODCAST: Barbados and the Blue Economy – Sargassum Solutions |
In a four-part mini-series, released in the run-up to the UN Oceans Conference, we explore some of the ocean-related issues facing the eastern Caribbean...
Local leaders raise temperature on action to fight climate change
From Morocco to Maharastra, California to Quebec, the UN’s Local Leaders series highlights how strong leadership is positively impacting on people’s lives in both...
Lebanon crisis highlights trauma of Syrian refugees forced to flee – again |
As the war in Lebanon grinds on, some 1.3 million people have now fled intense Israeli bombardment up and down the country, according to...
UN News Today 13 December 2024 |
Gaza: ‘Sickening normalisation’ of suffering, amid attacks on people and aid convoysOngoing military operations by Israeli forces in Gaza continue to cause devastation, with...
One third of global population affected by desertification and land loss |
Some 3.2 billion people, or almost one third of the global population, are affected by desertification and land loss according to the UN’s most...
UN News Today 5 July 2024
Refugees and migrants face violence, abuse and death on Africa routesOngoing and generalized impunity in Burundi for the ‘Imbonerakure’ youth wingAnd …Hurricane Beryl -...
‘It is an elephant’: Ukraine’s unexploded mine problem
These are the results of the ammunition from last nights’ attacks, or at least from the munitions which exploded.At a briefing in New York,...
UN News Today 11 February 2025 |
Gaza: Return to war must be avoided at all costs, insists UN chiefA return to war in Gaza must be avoided at all costs,...
UN News Today 04 March 2025 |
Gaza’s recovery must be built on more than steel and concrete: GuterresThe UN Secretary-General on Tuesday stressed that the “true foundation” of recovery and...
UN News Today 16 April 2025 |
Member States reach agreement on pandemic treaty: WHOMember States of the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed a draft treaty to keep the world...
Syrian Minister denounces Israel for its ‘seven-decade-long criminal record’
All of these, he told the UN General Assembly, are exacerbated by failures of multilateral diplomacy and the failure of the United Nations to...
