UN-backed labour standards at risk as tariff uncertainty grows
Threatened or actual tariff increases are largely focused on taxing imports into the United States and will make the products made by factories outside...
UN forum to spotlight health, gender equality, oceans, in critical bid to meet development...
The 2025 High-Level Political Forum, or HLPF, follows two recent successful UN conferences focused on vital development issues: one in June in Nice, France,...
Lifesaver: Study shows vaccine campaigns cut deaths by nearly 60 per cent
The study, conducted by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in collaboration with Australia’s Burnet Institute, and published in the authoritative British Medical Journal (BMJ) Global...
Gazans dying in search of food, ‘starkest illustration’ of their desperation
“The fact that people are now dying every day trying to get food, I think is the starkest illustration of how desperate the situation...
UN chief condemns latest Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping
According to news reports, the Yemen-based rebel group – which has been battling the internationally-recognised Government for control of the country since the early...
Desperate Afghan refugees return to an unfamiliar home
The agency is calling for calm and cooperation to provide a dignified path forward for millions of displaced Afghans.More than 1.6 million Afghans have...
UN News Today 11 July 2025 |
Gaza: ‘Unacceptable’ choice between getting shot or getting fedFollowing the deaths of several children in an Israeli strike on Palestinians while waiting in line for nutritional...
Gaza: ‘Unacceptable’ choice between getting shot or getting fed
UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva on Friday that “we've raised concerns about atrocity crimes having been committed and the...
International Criminal Court: War crimes, systematic sexual violence ongoing in Darfur
Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan told ambassadors in the UN Security Council that the ICC has “reasonable grounds to believe” that both war crimes...
UNICEF deplores ‘unconscionable’ killing of families lining up for aid in Gaza
Catherine Russell said she was appalled by the reported killing of 15 Palestinians, including nine children and four women, who were waiting in line...
She fought for the girl the world left behind: Natalia Kanem’s UN legacy
She returns, over and over, to a single image: that of a ten-year-old girl – standing on the edge of adolescence, her future uncertain,...
UN warns of record civilian casualties in Ukraine
Russian forces launched an attack overnight focused on Kyiv, deploying 397 Shahed unmanned attack and decoy drones, along with 18 high-powered missiles, killing two...
UN News Today 10 July 2025 |
Funding cuts to HIV services put millions of lives at riskLarge-scale funding cuts on the part of international donors such as the United States...
Overlooked and underestimated: Sand and dust storms wreak havoc across borders
That’s how much sand and dust enters the atmosphere on an annual basis according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s annual report on the storms...
UN voices concern over Greece’s suspension of asylum applications
The move, currently being debated in the Greek Parliament, would halt asylum registration for three months and allow for the return of new arrivals...
UN calls for reversal of US sanctions on Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
They’re calling for the decision to be reversed, warning it could undermine the wider international human rights system.The sanctions were announced by US Secretary...
Libya: UN urges restraint as military buildup threatens renewed violence in Tripoli
In a statement late on Wednesday (local time), the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expressed deep concern over continued reports of armed group...
UN warns of deepening health crisis in Gaza amid mass casualty incidents
Across the Gaza Strip, as people desperately search for food, mass casualty incidents are reported almost daily, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, told reporters at...
Ukrainian baker rises above adversity
Ms. Honcharenko’s story, like her bread, has risen through layers of loss, resilience, and hope. Before 2014, she lived in Horlivka, in Ukraine’s Donetsk...
UN News Today 09 July 2025 |
WHO chief announces delivery of medical aid to GazaFirst to Gaza, where the UN health agency has confirmed that 11 trucks carrying medical supplies...
‘Very limited time to react’: Texas flash floods expose challenges in early warning
The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that the tragedy highlights growing global challenges around extreme rainfall, warning dissemination and community preparedness.Flash floods are...
US tariff delay deepens trade uncertainty, warns top UN economist
While the initial 90-day pause on so-called “reciprocal” tariffs offered some relief compared to planned increases of up to 50 per cent, the US...
Srebrenica, 30 years on: UN officials and survivors call for truth, justice and vigilance
“I have survived a genocide,” said Munira Subašić, whose youngest son – her favourite – and 21 other family members were murdered in the...
UN News Today 08 July 2025
Thirty years on, the UN urges the world to remember the victims of the Srebrenica genocide and amplify the voices of survivors At least 10...
