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...
Yemen: One in two children severely malnourished after 10 years of war
“We need to move fast,” said UNICEF representative in the country Peter Hawkins. “I was in Hudaydah over the past three days...I went through...
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...
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...
South Sudan on the brink of civil war, top UN official warns
Briefing journalists at UN Headquarters in New York via videolink from Juba, Nicholas Haysom described indiscriminate attacks on civilians, mass displacement and rising ethnic...
‘Don’t cut the aid’: Insecurity worsens for stateless Rohingya, says UNHCR’s Grandi
In a joint appeal, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) urged all countries to step up to...
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 peace missions strained, with trust ‘in short supply’ and widening divisions
Addressing a high-level open debate in the Security Council, he called for urgent reforms to make peacekeeping more adaptable to today’s increasingly complex security...
‘Racism requires ignorance’: How art and culture can help end racial discrimination
"Ignorance allows for racism, but racism requires ignorance. It requires that we don't know the facts," says Sarah Lewis, Associate Professor of African and...
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...
IOM Chief Unveils New Partnership with LALIGA FOUNDATION to Strengthen Migrant Integration in Peru
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Lima, 24 de marzo de 2025 – La Directora General de la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM), Amy Pope, concluyó...
IOM Chief’s Visit to Guatemala Highlights Urgent Needs for People Returning Home
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Guatemala City, 14 March 2025 - Amid a sharp increase in southbound migration, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General Amy...
Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It
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“…Perry reevaluates what it means for Black Americans to be empowered in this smart and revelatory study….one of the most riveting...
3-week Gaza aid ban ‘collective punishment’: UNRWA chief
Mr. Lazzarini made the remarks in a social media post, in which he noted that the siege, which is preventing food, medicines, water and fuel...
Gratefully Offering Sacred Words and Water
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
In this Black History Month II: Women Focus, I reach back to retrieve and share a hallowed...
MSJ Statement on Developments in International Relations Imperial Control Vs. South-South Relations
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The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) was the first to make a clear statement (issued on March 2nd) condemning the policy...
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...
MSJ Statement on Developments in International Relations Imperial Control Vs. South-South Relations
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The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) was the first to make a clear statement (issued on March 2nd) condemning the policy...
‘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...
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...
Running to bomb shelters, nothing new for Ukraine’s schoolchildren
There have been a staggering 1,614 recorded attacks on Ukrainian schools up to the end of last year says the report from the UN...
Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teams
“We’re waking up from another intense night of bombardments, the fourth night of bombardment since the ceasefire abruptly broke down on Monday night…the situation...
WORLD WATER DAY LIVE: ‘A cold hard truth’
Melting glaciers, climate crises and access to clean water are some of the messages emerging ahead of World Water Day and the first ever...
