‘Behind each crisis, people are suffering,’ Türk tells Human Rights Council
“We are on an indefensible path of escalating conflict and open disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law,” said Volker Türk, addressing the...
Brutal cuts mean brutal choices warns UN relief chief, launching ‘survival appeal’
“We have been forced into a triage of human survival,” said Mr. Fletcher. “The math is cruel, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Too many...
UN News Today 16 June 2025 |
Iran-Israel crisis: UN nuclear watchdog ready to respond ‘within an hour’As Israel and Iran continue to trade missile strikes, the head of the UN...
Shaping a better world at Expo 2025 in Japan
The UN is taking part alongside more than 150 countries and organizations at the global gathering, which carries the forward-looking theme: Designing Future Society...
The vulnerable and forgotten: trafficked persons with disabilities |
Persons with disabilities living in institutions face a heightened risk of being trafficked as their reliance on others for daily support can be manipulated;...
Societies grappling with a ‘silent but growing’ prison crisis
A decade ago, the UN General Assembly adopted the Nelson Mandela Rules — a set of 122 guidelines setting minimum standards for the treatment...
Time to ‘change the tide’ in the Caribbean says regional climate expert |
Small island States are among the most vulnerable communities facing rising sea levels and marine degradation – but this invaluable firsthand experience puts them...
UN News Today 13 June 2025 |
Israel-Iran crisis: UN chief urges calm after overnight strikesSecretary-General António Guterres has condemned Israeli strikes in Iran late on Thursday evening and urged “maximum...
Hopeful Syrians head home to an uncertain future |
Since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, 1.9 million Syrian refugees have headed home to Syria. After 14 years of civil...
Israel-Iran crisis: UN chief urges calm after overnight strikes
Any military escalation in the Middle East should be censured, the UN chief said in a short statement issued by his spokesperson’s office.“He is...
UN General Assembly adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution by overwhelming majority
The move followed the Security Council’s failure to pass a similar resolution last week due to a lone veto by permanent member the United...
World News in Brief: ‘Indifference and impunity’ in Sudan, ICC judges speak out against...
Tom Fletcher noted that over 30 million people require humanitarian assistance. Moreover, with famine declared in multiple places and over 14.6 million people displaced,...
UN chief ‘deeply saddened’ as Air India crash claims lives of over 200 on...
The plane – a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner – crashed into a medical college about a mile from the city’s main airport reportedly killing five...
UN News Today 12 June 2025 |
Oceans summit: biodiversity chief warns of lack of ambitionAt the Ocean summit in France, the UN’s biodiversity chief warned on Thursday that there’s a...
‘No Ocean Declaration without small islands’: Delegates push for inclusion as UN summit nears...
With the conference, known as UNOC3, set to close Friday, the stakes couldn’t be higher.Li Junhua, the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs,...
Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR
In December last year, the overthrow of the Assad regime by opposition forces reignited hope that most Syrians could see home again soon. As...
Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians
This represents a 24 per cent increase from December 2024 according to the UN agency, which also noted that this increase has produced the...
UN News Today 11 June 2025 |
At least eight die in Red Sea tragedy as smugglers force migrants overboardSurvivors of a people-smuggling operation in the Red Sea have described being...
‘Decent work for the parents’ is key to solving child labour |
Ensuring that parents have opportunities for “decent work” is essential to reducing the number of young people, currently estimated to be 138 million globally,...
The world pledged to end child labour by 2025: So why are 138 million...
There are 10,000 children in Madagascar who, like Tenasoa, work in the largely unregulated mica industry. The silicate is used in paints, car parts,...
At least eight die in Red Sea tragedy as smugglers force migrants overboard
At least eight people are feared dead and 22 others are missing after smugglers stopped a boat carrying around 150 passengers likely bound for...
World News in Brief: Global growth slows, deadly Ukraine attacks, Haiti hurricane hunger risk,...
Growth is projected to weaken to 2.3 per cent, or nearly half a percentage point lower than expected at the start of the year,...
Myanmar on the ‘path to self-destruction’ if violence does not end
Since then, “there has been no end to the violence, even though thousands have been killed and thousands more injured,” said UN Special Envoy...
UN News Today 10 June 2025 |
We’ve almost reached the point of no return to save our oceans, says UN chiefThe UN Secretary-General has told the Ocean Conference in Nice...
