UN News Today 19 August 2024 |
UN and partners appeal for greater protection of aid workers on World Humanitarian Day With the number of aid workers killed in conflict reaching record...
Bangladesh crisis: UN supporting efforts to build a brighter future for all |
The UN continues to monitor fast-moving developments in Bangladesh after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country on Monday following weeks of student protests...
PODCAST: Humanitarian Leadership Stories – Development |
In the final episode of Humanitarian Leadership Stories, a mini-series produced in collaboration with the UN Humanitarian Office, OCHA, we find out why there’s...
UN News Today 20 August 2024 |
Combating mpox is a ‘litmus test for global equity’: UN health agencyThe ongoing mpox outbreak will be a “test for global equity” and eradicating...
What happened on Wednesday at UN: Focus on Lebanon; deepening geopolitical divides; rising seas
🔵 In his speech to the General Assembly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that leaders he has met in New York this week “share...
UN News Today 21 August 2024 |
UN migration agency issues $18.5 million appeal to prepare for mpox ‘surge’The spread of mpox across the Horn, eastern and southern Africa has increased...
Protecting civilians must be our ‘North Star’, says French President Macron
Recalling that global enthusiasm that had greeted the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, Mr. Macron regretted that, despite such jubilation, the Olympic Truce seemed...
Sudan: UN ‘can prevent many deaths’ if aid access is restored |
The World Food Programme’s (WFP) Spokesperson in Sudan says the world “cannot give up hope” of averting widespread famine across the war-torn country, despite...
PODCAST: Youth leaders fighting for a better world |
The UN Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an inspiring group of young people from across the world, achieving great things...
UN News Today 25 September 2024 |
Sudan crisis: Top ministers meet in New York to demand urgent actionWith war raging in Sudan and no end in sight to the catastrophic...
Stop global warming to turn the tide on sea-level rise: UN Assembly President
The situation is critical, said UN General Assembly President Philémon Yang, who convened the high-level meeting. He noted that estimates indicate up to 1.2 billion...
Antimicrobial resistance could increase in conflict areas: WHO
With an alarming uptick in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) worldwide, stakeholders will be gathering on Thursday for a High-Level Meeting to discuss ways of combating the...
Security Council ‘must spare no effort’ to unite and push for peace
In a world where peace is “never automatic”, leadership is essential on the part of the UN Security Council which must find better ways...
Lebanon escalation: UN boosts support at border with Syria
The serious escalation in hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel has forced “tens of thousands” of people to flee their homes in Lebanon, including Syrian...
PODCAST: A new generation of SDG champions picks up the baton
On today’s episode of The Lid Is On, Conor Lennon speaks to three exceptional young changemakers who have been recognized by the UN for...
Russia can’t win on the battlefield, so it’s finding other ways to torment Ukrainian...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that Russia cannot defeat his people on the battlefield, so it is looking...
UN News Today 22 August 2024 |
Speaking in Samoa, where he met residents uprooted from their homes by sea level rise and coastal erosion, Mr. Guterres said that Pacific islanders...
‘Imagining future generations’: Summit of the Future advisor |
“Imagine if every decision we made, we had to think about future generations,” Anne-Marie Slaughter said, discussing the Pact for the Future at UN Headquarters...
Focus on the Future: The World arrives |
Reforming the Security Council, to make it more representative of today’s world, has been under discussion for decades. The subject made it into the...
UN News Today 23 August 2024 |
Aid teams cite huge challenges in tackling new Sudan cholera outbreakProtecting war-weary people in Sudan from a second deadly cholera outbreak is proving a...
Shuttered classrooms in Gaza means a ‘lost generation’ warns UNRWA chief |
Children make up half of Gaza’s entire population of over two million, but none have been able to attend school since the 7 October...
UN paralyzed, challenges piling up, world leaders ‘going around in circles’, says Brazil’s Lula
Speaking to world leaders at the General Assembly's annual debate, President Lula lamented that the current global situation, including the seeming paralysis of the...
PODCAST: Can young leaders help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? |
With the world currently recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and reeling from the economic fallout of the war in Ukraine, progress on achieving the...
Qatar will continue to mediate for peace in Gaza, Amir Al Thani tells world...
Speaking at the Assembly’s high-level debate, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani described the “blatant aggression” against Palestinians in Gaza as the “most barbaric,...