Global collaboration grows to address crises in Gaza, Sudan, Afghanistan
Briefing the Security Council on Thursday, Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, said the OIC remains an “indispensable” partner in efforts to...
UN News Today 24 July 2025 |
Gazans ‘are neither dead nor alive’ but ‘walking corpses’: UNRWAOne in five children in Gaza City suffers from malnutrition and cases are rising daily,...
Data and slums: ‘Evaluation is the way to speak truth to power’ |
Over one billion people live in slums and informal settlements globally, with that number expected to triple by 2050. And yet, in official data...
Syria: Second convoy brings critical aid to Sweida
Deadly sectarian violence has displaced more than 145,000 people in the southern city, some of whom have fled to neighbouring Dar’a and Rural Damascus...
Nigeria: Amid record hunger and surging insecurity, emergency food assistance to stall entirely
While WFP has been able to hold hunger at bay across northern Nigeria in the first half of 2025, funding shortfalls are jeopardising such...
UN News Today 23 July 2025 |
UN agency sounds the alarm over ‘catastrophic birth outcomes’ in GazaIn Gaza, severe food deprivation, a shattered healthcare system, and immense psychological stress are...
Gender equality key to achieving global development goals: rights expert |
Greater political will is needed to change patriarchal norms in the face of the backlash against gender equality, an independent expert appointed by the...
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Debate on the situation in the Middle East
The Security Council meets today for its quarterly open debate on the situation in the Middle East, with a focus on the worsening crisis...
‘Perfect storm’ of global crises drove years of food price surges: FAO
The report, to be released later this month, reveals how between 2020 and 2024, the world experienced a dramatic increase in food prices driven...
Sudan: UN scales up response plan as humanitarian needs rise in Tawila
The aim is to increase assistance for communities over the next three months, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said...
UN laments US withdrawal from educational and cultural agency
“I deeply regret President Donald Trump's decision to once again withdraw the United States of America from UNESCO,” Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of the Paris-based...
UN News Today 22 July 2025 |
Gaza: UN staff now fainting from hunger, exhaustion; WHO worker is detainedIn Gaza, babies now have to wear plastic bags instead of nappies because...
Deep dive into the International Seabed Authority: Why it matters now
At a time when the international community seeks to regulate the rich tapestry of the planet’s ocean floors while countries and corporations speed towards...
‘Peace is a choice’: UN chief urges diplomacy as wars spread from Gaza to...
This is the only sustainable path to global security, he told ministers at a high-level open debate of the Security Council on Tuesday.The Secretary-General...
Gaza: UN health agency pledges to stay and deliver despite attacks |
The World Health Organization (WHO) has repeated its call for the release of an employee detained by the Israeli military following attacks on a...
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: High-level debate on peaceful settlements of dispute
The UN Security Council meets today for a high-level open debate on Promoting International Peace and Security through Multilateralism and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes,...
UN’s Guterres declares fossil fuel era fading; presses nations for new climate plans before...
In a special address at UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Guterres cited surging clean energy investment and plunging solar and wind costs that...
Food lifeline fading for millions in South Sudan hit by conflict and climate shocks
Earlier this month, the UN agency began airdropping emergency food assistance in Upper Nile State after surging conflict forced families from their homes and...
People dying from lack of aid every day in Gaza: WFP official
Ross Smith, director of emergency preparedness and response, briefed journalists in New York in the wake of a deadly incident on Sunday in which...
Syria: Ongoing violence fuelling mass displacement in Sweida
More than 93,000 Syrians have been displaced across Sweida, neighbouring Dar’a governorate and Rural Damascus due to escalating violence in the city, UN Spokesperson...
Gaza: Guterres condemns killing of people seeking food as humanitarian conditions deteriorate
Stéphane Dujarric was speaking to reporters at UN Headquarters in New York a day after dozens of Palestinians were killed seeking food aid.He said...
Syria: UN aid teams offer vital assistance to Sweida’s displaced and returnees |
Amid reports of a fragile calm in Syria’s Sweida governorate, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed on Monday that it is helping to...
Salvaging SDGs still possible, but countries must act now: Guterres
Addressing ministers at UN Headquarters in New York, he called for urgent action to rescue lagging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) amid war, inequality and...
Droughts are causing record devastation worldwide, UN-backed report reveals
This is according to a new report from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and the...
