Afghan women returnees face rising risks, UN warns
UN Women – which champions gender empowerment and equality – alongside the international humanitarian agency CARE International and partners, issued the call in a...
Gaza: Hospitals ‘at near-total collapse’, staff overwhelmed by the injured
Meanwhile, UN agencies confirmed the deaths of three Palestinians from Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a rare auto-immune disease that can cause sudden muscle weakness and...
Landlocked nations ‘invisible to much of the world’: UN trade and development chief
At a major UN conference underway this week in Awaza, Turkmenistan, calls are growing to tackle the high trade costs, investment gaps and growing...
UN trade and development chief calls for economic boost to aid landlocked countries |
More than 30 landlocked developing countries – from Bolivia to Bhutan and Burkina Faso – face some of the world’s highest trading costs, deepest...
Syria: Ceasefire under strain as violence and aid access issues persist in Sweida
The 19 July truce followed weeks of sectarian clashes, Israeli airstrikes and grave human rights violations in the southern governorate, also known as As-Sweida.As...
Just 1.5 per cent of Gaza’s agricultural land remains accessible and undamaged
A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) reveals that just 8.6 percent of cropland in...
Ceasefire in doubt as Rwanda-backed rebels kill hundreds in eastern DR Congo
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said it had received first-hand accounts indicating that at least 319 civilians were killed by M23 fighters, aided...
UN News Today 06 August 2025 |
Gaza: Alarm over Israeli moves to deregister NGOs in Strip and West BankUN agencies warned on Tuesday that partner organizations in Gaza will have...
Hiroshima, 80 years on: ‘Real change’ needed to end existential nuclear threat
While the city has been rebuilt, nuclear conflict remains a global threat, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said in remarks at...
Gaza: Alarm over Israeli move to deregister NGOs
The development – which also applies to the occupied West Bank – is a result of the Israeli requirement introduced on 9 March impacting...
Gaza: Security Council meets on hostage crisis amid ‘unbearable’ conditions facing Palestinian civilians
Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča briefed a Security Council meeting on Tuesday called by Israel to discuss the plight of hostages still being held in...
Children are ‘skin and bones’ as Sudan marks a grim milestone
It is a grim milestone for Sudan, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But with insufficient funding, lack of access to key regions and intensifying...
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Israel calls for focus on Gaza hostages’ plight
The Security Council is meeting to discuss rising concern in Israel and elsewhere over the dire conditions facing the hostages who remain in Gaza....
Gaza crisis deepens as UN warns children are ‘dying before reaching hospital’
With 96 per cent of households lacking clean water, many malnourished children are not surviving long enough to receive hospital care.James Elder, Spokesperson for...
World News in Brief: Child deaths in Pakistan, Ukrainian rail station attack, new UN-India...
The children picked up the unexploded ordnance in a nearby field, mistaking it for a toy, and brought it back to their village where...
UN News Today 05 August 2025 |
Gaza: Famine doesn’t happen overnight, says UN aid agencyUN aid agencies still in Gaza insisted once again on Tuesday on the need to get...
The world is demanding action over plastic pollution: UN environment chief
“The world wants and indeed needs a plastic conventional treaty because the crisis is getting out of hand – and people are frankly outraged,”...
Hunger in Gaza: Women and children face death in search of food
“I used to easily receive aid distributed by the UN,” Abir Safi, a displaced person from the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, told UN...
First Person: Documenting despair and finding hope amidst the rubble of Gaza
Some 21 months have passed since the 7 October armed attacks on Israel which sparked the current brutal conflict.Thousands have died and much of...
An ambitious legally binding plastics treaty is needed more than ever, youth leaders say...
If ever the world needed to agree on stopping plastic pollution, it’s now, supporters of a deal say.According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP),...
UN News Today 04 August 2025 |
Gaza remains on brink of famine as UNRWA chief calls for hostage releasesIn Gaza, UN aid teams continue to report that Gaza is on...
The final straw? Plastic pollution talks get underway in Geneva
Unless an international accord is inked, plastic waste is projected to triple by 2060, causing significant damage – including to our health – according to...
Cholera spreads in North Darfur, 640,000 children under threat, UNICEF warns
More than 1,180 cholera cases – including an estimated 300 in children – and at least 20 deaths have been reported in Tawila, a...
Awaza gears up to host UN conference on landlocked developing countries
More than 20 heads of state and government and some 3,000 delegates from international organizations, civil society, youth, academia and the private sector are...
