World News in Brief: Gaza latest, Americas loses measles-free status, tornado recovery in Brazil
The fuel is needed to power machinery for critical operations, including water, sanitation, hygiene, health and clearing rubble.
Education, nutrition and protection work will also...
Millions of lives at risk, warn UN food agencies, as hunger crisis worsens
A report released by the two UN agencies on Tuesday identifies six that are at the highest risk of famine or catastrophic hunger: Sudan, Palestine,...
UN News Today 12 November 2025 |
Sudan’s Kordofan region in grip of increasing killings and destruction, warns UN rights chief Türk Amid an alarming escalation of the Sudan war, the UN’s...
Stand your ground: How one community in Brazil is coping with rising tides
From there, she and her husband fished, planted crops and raised animals. “I was a very happy person in that little piece of land...
Tanzania: Reports of hundreds killed and detained following deadly election violence
Tanzanians took to the streets on 29 October against the re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, in a protest that quickly escalated into violence and...
Stakes rise for South Sudan: What’s happening, and why it matters
A “breaking point is becoming visible” in the peace process, they cautioned, as core commitments under a landmark 2018 peace agreement stall or go...
Keeping cool on a hotter planet: COP30 pushes for sustainable cooling and AI innovation
AI is already helping farmers predict droughts and manage crops more efficiently, but the environmental cost of training large models and running vast data...
Preparedness and coordination key to preventing Philippines super typhoon deaths |
Filipinos are picking up the pieces after super typhoon Fung-Wong ripped through the country.Eight people including three children are reported to have died because...
UN News Today 11 November 2025 |
Sudan war: Women endure starvation, rape and bombs while fleeing El FasherIn war-torn Sudan, rape is likely being used as a weapon of war...
Detainees ‘dying of starvation’ in ‘subhuman conditions’ in Haitian prisons |
People being held in prisons in Haiti are dying of starvation in subhuman conditions according to the UN’s Designated Expert on the human rights...
Sudan war: Women endure starvation, rape and bombs fleeing El Fasher
“Women speaking to us from El Fasher, the heart of Sudan's latest catastrophe, tell us that they've endured starvation…displacement, rape and bombardment,” Anna Mutavati,...
Sudan: 89,000 civilians have fled El Fasher
Since the Rapid Support Forces militia – which has been battling the military government – captured El Fasher after more than 500 days of...
From pledges to action: Leaders push for faster climate progress at COP30
“This is the moment to match opportunity with urgency,” said Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, calling for a decisive defeat of climate...
UN News Today 10 November 2025 |
Extreme weather pushing front-line communities to the brinkAt least 117 million people have been displaced by war, violence and persecution around the world, the...
Doha: World Summit ends with renewed pledge to leave no one behind
The Summit took place 30 years after the landmark 1995 Copenhagen meeting that put social justice at the heart of sustainable development. Since then,...
COP30 kicks off with urgent call to deliver on climate promises and scale up...
After decades of pledges and annual summits from Kyoto to Sharm el-Sheikh, the planet keeps getting hotter and pressure on governments and big business...
Rights chief warns ‘abominable atrocities’ likely continue in Sudan’s El Fasher
“Today, traumatised civilians are still trapped inside El Fasher and are being prevented from leaving,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk in a statement released on Friday. “I fear that the abominable...
Holding on to home, as the ocean engulfs the Solomon Islands
Sikaiana, less than two square kilometres, is encircled by the sea and is home to just 300 people. It is also more than 200 kilometres from the main island...
In Brazil, Guterres calls for ‘fair, fast and final’ shift to clean energy
The latest push came on Friday in remarks to the Energy Transition Roundtable in Belém, Brazil, held just days before the formal opening of the COP30 climate change conference.“The fossil...
UN News Today 07 November 2025 |
West Bank settler violence must end with accountability: UN Human RightsThe UN human rights office (OHCHR) has called for an end to continuing expansion...
World News in Brief: Russian rights abuses in Ukraine, US a no-show for rights...
During their mission from 2 to 6 November, the three members of the Human Rights Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry met survivors, families of victims...
Investing in youth is the smartest decision to make |
With half the world’s population under 30, sidelining young people is no longer an option. That’s according to UN Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs,...
Security Council lifts terror-related sanctions on Syrian President
Soon after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in early December 2024, the international community began to ease sanctions against the country, in an attempt...
Grandi calls for greater refugee protection and funding
Filippo Grandi reported that for the first time in nearly a decade, the number of refugees and other people fleeing war, violence and persecution, has decreased – from 123 million at the...
