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...
UN News Today 12 September 2025 |
Afghanistan: Lifesaving services cut as Taliban bars women aid workersThe UN’s relief effort for Afghan earthquake victims continued on Friday, although essential services have been cut for operational...
What is South-South cooperation, and can it be the gateway to a fairer world?
In practical terms, South-South cooperation is a process whereby developing countries – regardless of their actual geographical location – seek to achieve their individual...
World News in Brief: Afghan quake update, diplomacy continues to end Sudan war, UN...
Women and children face heightened risks, while operational challenges – including restrictions on female UN staff – threaten life-saving relief efforts.The twin quakes, measuring...
Israeli strike in Doha marks ‘alarming escalation’, warns top UN official, in call to...
Rosemary DiCarlo described Tuesday’s strike in a residential area of the Qatari capital – which targeted Hamas’s political leadership killing several affiliates along with...
Afghanistan: New restrictions on women nationals working for UN, put aid efforts at risk
These measures are putting life-saving humanitarian assistance and other essential services for hundreds of thousands of people affected by a recent deadly earthquake at...
UN News Today 11 September 2025 |
Sudan: War, bureaucracy and attacks hamper humanitarian accessThe UN aid coordination office, OCHA, says humanitarian access continues to be severely constrained in war-torn Sudan,...
Nepal crisis: Army deployed as death toll rises amid political turmoil
The unrest began Monday as a self-styled “Gen Z protest” against corruption, nepotism and restrictions on social media. It quickly escalated after security forces...
‘Shift the narrative’ on suicide to prevent loss of 720,000 lives annually
Speaking on World Suicide Prevention Day, which is marked annually on 10 September, WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “each life lost leaves a profound impact...
UN News Today 10 September 2025 |
Nuclear watchdog chief announces breakthrough on Iran monitoringThe head of the UN’s atomic energy agency announced on Wednesday that a deal has been struck...
Nuclear watchdog chief announces breakthrough on Iran monitoring
“Indispensable” monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ended in June, agency chief Rafael Grossi said, when Israel and US-backed airstrikes targeted Iran’s...
‘No ordinary session’: Baerbock opens UN General Assembly with call for courage and reform
This will be “no ordinary session,” she pledged, with the multilateral system beset by overlapping crises and heightened disunity.A former foreign minister of Germany,...
Attacks on schools surge by ‘staggering’ 44 per cent over the past year
Over 41,000 incidents of violence against school-age children were reported by the UN in 2024.Countries with the highest levels of violations in were Israel...
Military spending worldwide hits record $2.7 trillion
“The world is spending far more on waging war than in building peace,” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at a press briefing for...
Beyond broken schools: how war disrupts education in Ukraine |
Around the world, education is under attack, impacting millions of children. In Ukraine alone, more than 1,800 schools have been damaged or destroyed since...