‘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...
Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) unveiled its flagship State of World Population report on Tuesday, warning that a rising number of people are being...
No green without blue: Young ocean explorers set sail for a sustainable future
In the old town of Nice, the 98-meter-long, three-masted barque arrived last week at Port Lympia, where UNOC3 is now under way. Built in...
Lack of cooperation from Iran hampers nuclear checks, says atomic energy watchdog
Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Monday that Iran’s growing stockpile of highly enriched uranium and unresolved questions...
UN News Today 09 June 2025 |
At UN conference in France, Guterres calls for action to save our oceansA major global meeting is underway in the French coastal city of...
Guterres calls for an end to ocean ‘plunder’ as UN summit opens in France
“The ocean is the ultimate shared resource,” he told delegates gathered at the port of Nice. “But we are failing it.”Oceans, he warned, are...
Gaza: Women and girls struggle to manage their periods amid crisis
Globally, 1.8 billion people menstruate, yet for many, especially in crises zones, it’s far more than an inconvenience.In war-torn Gaza, around 700,000 women and girls...
A powerful planetary helper: Ocean phytoplankton |
Ocean phytoplankton may be tiny, but their impact on the planet is enormous.These microscopic organisms form the foundation of marine food chains and play...
Green gold beneath the waves: How seaweed – and one man’s obsession – could...
Lesconil, a salt-bitten fishing port tucked into the coast of Brittany, in northern France, stirs slowly under the pale Atlantic dawn. Tide pools shimmer,...
International community prepares to tackle marine life extinction threat |
In this episode of The Lid Is On, experts discuss the urgent need to restore the Ocean, which is facing a host of threats...
Both radio and sports can help people achieve their potential, says UN on World...
Radio is a powerful, low-cost communication tool that reaches the widest global audience while also connecting people to grassroots sports within communities. “It can...
‘It is an elephant’: Ukraine’s unexploded mine problem
These are the results of the ammunition from last nights’ attacks, or at least from the munitions which exploded.At a briefing in New York,...
World News in Brief: Women’s health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala...
It warned that without immediate support, women and girls will continue to pay the price of this crisis with their lives, as hundreds of...
UN News Today 05 June 2025 |
In Gaza, daily food intake set to fall well below ‘survival’ levelThe lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is...
UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution ‘alive’
“It is absolutely essential to keep alive the two-State solution perspective with all the terrible things we are witnessing in Gaza and the West...
