Award-winning gender advocate lauds importance of ‘gender-responsive peacekeeping missions’ |
Squadron Leader Sharon Mwinsote Syme of Ghana is this year’s UN Military Gender Advocate award winner for her work boosting gender equality while serving...
Memories of childhood fuel woman peacekeeper’s drive to serve |
"I saw people coming from different parts of the world just to help bring peace in my country,” said Chief Superintendent Zainab Gbla, speaking...
Yemen: UN warns against Houthi-Israel escalation, calls for dialogue
On Wednesday, Israel launched airstrikes on Yemen’s main airport in the capital, Sana’a, destroying the last operational Yemenia Airways plane, according to media reports.The...
UN Awards 2025 Mandela Prize to Brenda Reynolds and Kennedy Odede
Secretary-General António Guterres will present the award to Brenda Reynolds and Kennedy Odede on 18 July, Nelson Mandela International Day.Established in 2014, the prize...
‘We are women like you’: UN honours peacekeepers for work in gender empowerment
There, alongside civilian gender units, Ms. Syme met a group of local community members – both men and women. Partway through, she realised something...
UN News Today 28 May 2025 |
Global temperatures set to stay on record-setting path, warns UN weather agencyGlobal temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels for the...
Climate change: World Likely to Breach 1.5°C limit in next five years
According to the Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update, the planet is predicted to experience temperatures between 1.2°C and 1.9°C above pre-industrial levels (1850–1900)...
UN aims to transform urgency into action at Nice Ocean Conference
The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) from 9-13 June will bring together Heads of State, scientists, civil society and business leaders around...
Exponential rise in synthetic drug production and trafficking in the Golden Triangle
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the production and trafficking of methamphetamine – an illegal synthetic stimulant – have risen...
Sanctions relief for Syria offers ‘powerful message of hope,’ says UN migration agency
After more than a decade of conflict and severe economic stagnation, lifting the punitive measures will encourage long-term recovery and peacebuilding in Syria, Amy...
UN News Today 27 May 2025 |
Gaza: UN agencies call for aid ‘surge’ as privatized distribution plan beginsAs a controversial United States and Israel-backed aid distribution plan gets underway in...
UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ human rights crisis in Myanmar as violence and economic collapse...
Published ahead of the Human Rights Council’s upcoming session, the report highlighted the worsening situation since the military coup in 2021, which derailed Myanmar’s...
UN News Today 26 May 2025 |
Alcohol consumption linked to higher risk of pancreatic cancerIn health news, a new study published Monday revealed that alcoholic drinks can moderately increase the...
Gaza: ‘People feel this is the end,’ UN humanitarians warn |
Until this week, no commercial or humanitarian supplies had been allowed into Gaza since 2 March, deepening an already catastrophic hunger crisis and sparking...
UNHCR underscores plight of Rohingya refugees amid alarming reports
According to reports, one boat carrying 267 people from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Rakhine State in Myanmar, sank on 9 May, with only...
Public health champions honoured for work ‘beyond the call of normal duty’
But this is not universal. Many people worldwide struggle – unable to walk into clinics or explain their symptoms: “ do not line up...
UN News Today 23 May 2025 |
Syria: Humanitarian crisis is looming over shattered countryAid workers in Syria warned on Friday that a humanitarian crisis is looming there, with more than...
UN rights chief calls on South Sudan’s warring parties to end renewed fighting
At least 75 civilians have been killed in hostilities between the national army (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) – which...
World News in Brief: UK cedes sovereignty over Chagos Islands, suffering in Sudan deepens,...
Before granting Mauritius independence in 1968, Britain unlawfully separated the Chagos archipelago to create the British Indian Ocean Territory.
In doing so, it expelled 1,500–2,000...
Guterres strongly condemns killing of Israeli diplomats in US capital
The diplomats were gunned down on Wednesday night as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in central Washington DC, where the...
UN News Today 22 May 2025 |
All eyes on Gaza as aid teams retrieve first lifesaving relief in monthsUN agencies in Gaza confirmed on Thursday that desperately needed aid has...
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Ambassadors debate safety of civilians with 36,000 lives lost during conflict...
We're live as the Security Council convenes for its annual open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, with briefings from UN...
Four children dead in ‘horrific’ attack on school bus in Baluchistan: UNICEF
The attack which left others wounded, took place in the district of Khuzdar, about 250 kilometres south of Quetta, Balochistan’s provincial capital. The area...
Urgent action needed to ‘pull Yemen back from the brink of catastrophe’
Tom Fletcher said that with “time and treatment” Noor was able to recover fully.But what happens to a child such as Noor when treatments...
