Biological weapons ‘must not only be unthinkable but also impossible’
26 March marks the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) – the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban...
Sudan: Reproductive health agency decries devastating impact of war on women and girls |
Around a third of the 12 million Sudanese displaced following nearly three years of brutal conflict are women and girls of reproductive age, according...
UN News Today 26 March 2025 |
Gaza: No aid has reached war-torn enclave for more than three weeksIt has now been three and a half weeks since Israel imposed a...
Pact for the Future: Countries urged to translate pledges into action
General Assembly President Philémon Yang convened the informal interactive dialogue on the implementation of the Pact for the Future, which covers five areas: sustainable...
Sudanese refugees are literally crawling over the border to Chad, says UNDP |
Chad is seeing an influx of Sudanese refugees whose numbers are expected to pass the one million mark in coming months.Multiple UN agencies including...
‘Reparations can’t be quantified’, says Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka |
Reparations for the crimes of the transatlantic slave trade “can’t be quantified” given the vast historical sweep of human history, according to the first...
World News in Brief: Alarm over Türkiye detentions, Ukraine update, Sudan-Chad border emergency
“These detentions triggered country-wide demonstrations that were met with unlawful blanket bans on protests in three cities,” said OHCHR spokesperson Liz Throssell.More than 1,000...
‘Fragility and hope’ mark new era in Syria amid ongoing violence and aid struggles
On 6 March, armed groups linked to the deposed Assad regime ambushed forces of the caretaker administration led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, targeting military and...
Crimes of the transatlantic slave trade ‘unacknowledged, unspoken and unaddressed’
Addressing the General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres warned that systemic racism, economic exclusion and racial violence continue to deny people of African descent the...
UN News Today 25 March 2025 |
In Gaza, UN aid teams continue vital humanitarian workThe situation for Gazans remains catastrophic because of continuing Israeli bombardment and the ongoing aid blockade,...
Decades of progress in reducing child deaths and stillbirths at risk, UN warns
The death toll for under-fives was 4.8 million in 2023 – a significant decline – with stillbirths falling marginally to around 1.9 million, data...
‘Silence and erasure have no place’ in a just society |
Growing up just a few blocks from the United Nations in New York City, Sarah Lewis was drawn to narratives that shape who belongs...
Guterres to reduce UN aid ‘footprint’ inside Gaza following ceasefire collapse
In the past week, Israel carried out devastating strikes on Gaza, claiming the lives of hundreds of civilians, including United Nations personnel, with no...
Local staff ‘particularly vulnerable’ to detention, as UN calls for their release
In the last year alone 101 UN staff members were arrested or detained globally of whom at least 52 UN personnel remain in detention.The...
UN News Today 24 March 2025 |
In Gaza, UN humanitarians condemn more Israeli attacks on medics, hospitalsOne week since Israeli bombing started again in Gaza, UN humanitarians have described deadly...
Rebuilding Syria: Filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab on the struggle for justice and healing |
After 14 years of war, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 marked a new chapter for Syria.However, with 90 percent of...
UNAIDS chief warns of ‘real surge’ in deaths unless US restores funding
“We will see a …real surge in this disease - will see it come back and we see people dying the way we...
Mind your language: The battle for linguistic diversity in AI
With his signature geeky glasses and TED-Talk-style headset, Sundar Pichai looked straight out of a Silicon Valley incubator.That Monday, February 10, Google’s chief executive...
UN News Today 21 March 2025 |
Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teamsIsrael’s renewed bombing campaign and intensifying ground operation in Gaza are reversing gains...
‘The poison of racism continues to infect our world’, Guterres warns on International Day
21 March marks the adoption of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and honours the legacy of the...
‘We have to break the cycle’: Combating child marriage in Nepal |
Child marriage remains a significant challenge in Nepal, impacting the lives of tens of thousands of young girls. While its prevalence has dropped from...
Middle East crisis spirals amid mounting civilian deaths, aid blockade
Sigrid Kaag, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (ad interim) briefed the Security Council on the latest report relating to resolution...
Children, refugees pay hefty price of global aid funding crisis
Spokespersons for UNICEF and UNHCR in Geneva warned that the liquidity crunch has jeopardized lifesaving work, including progress in reducing child mortality, which has...
End of eternal ice: Many glaciers will not survive this century, climate scientists say
Together with ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers lock up about 70 per cent of the world’s freshwater reserves. They are striking indicators...
