‘Minutes from midnight’: Mohammed calls for urgent climate action
Addressing the preparatory meeting of the 29the session of Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Pre-COP29), Ms. Mohammed called...
Invest more in vaccines to reduce deaths from drug-resistant superbugs: WHO
AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines. It is among the top global public...
‘Alarming’ situation in Great Lakes Region of DR Congo
“It is the civilian population who will continue to bear the heavy toll of war daily: loss of life, sexual violence, health problems and...
WHO calls for action to halt rise in hearing loss in Africa
Hearing loss already costs the continent $27 million annually, exacting profound impact on lives and economies, according to the report, which was launched at...
Sudan: ‘Children should be safe everywhere’, says UNICEF, as fears grow for El Fasher
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reminded journalists in New York at the regular noon briefing that famine conditions have already been confirmed in the Zamzam...
WHO highlights mental health crisis facing Israel’s frontline workers a year after 7 October...
Responders including ambulance drivers, health workers and forensic teams who identified many of the dead, all witnessed “carnage and horror” which resulted in lasting...
Water is ‘canary in the coalmine’ of climate change: WMO
The State of Global Water Resources report released on Monday also highlights that over the last five years below-normal conditions for river flows have...
The week the world comes to Manhattan: Looking back at UNGA79 | UNGA
Let’s try to unscramble those 10 days for you. This year, some 235 events and hundreds of speakers later, the spotlight was shone on...
WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use
The Alinity m MPXV assay is a real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test that enables detection of monkeypox virus DNA from human skin lesion...
WMO partnership to highlight damaging impact of climate change on winter sports
The two organizations are joining forces to call attention to the extensive impacts of increasing global temperatures on snow and ice while producing measures to...
At Global Citizen Festival, UN deputy chief urges action to achieve development goals
“New York, I can’t hear you. Are we ready to act?” Amina Mohammed said in remarks to the Global Citizen Festival. The annual concert dedicated to...
Collective effort essential to get DR Congo on firm path to peace
“We need to collectively remain engaged in assisting the country on its path to peace and stability,” said Bintou Keita, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative...
$1.5 billion commitment for education and skills training in lower-middle-income countries
The commitment by the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) will address the dire but often forgotten global education emergency. Currently, 250 million children...
LIVE: World leaders meet to tackle superbug scourge
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is an invisible killer, so world leaders will soon gather at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters on Thursday at...
The heat is on: We must rise to the challenge of rising temperatures, urges...
The appeal comes against the backdrop of record temperatures and deadly heatwaves – from the United States to Africa’s Sahel and Europe to the...
Zimbabwe faces worsening food crisis due to El Niño droughts
This comes just two months after UN humanitarians declared Zimbabwe as one of the hunger hotspots where acute food insecurity was likely to deteriorate.The...
Another month, another heat record broken: UN weather agency
Global average temperatures for 13 consecutive months from June 2023 to June 2024 also set new monthly records.50℃ barrier broken“Widespread, intense and extended heat...
Extreme heat increasingly disrupting child health, UNICEF warns
“Extreme heat is increasing, disrupting children’s health, wellbeing and daily routines,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.The study compared averages in the 1960s with the period 2020-2024,...
Attack on a city in Sudan kills at least five and injures more: UNICEF
The bomb hit the Al-Khansa Secondary School for Girls and a crowded marketplace in El Obeid city in Kordofan state, said the statement released...
From Tonga, Guterres appeals for ‘a surge in funds to deal with surging seas’
Speaking during a press conference in the capital, Nuku’alofa, Mr. Guterres called for world leaders to drastically slash global emissions, quickly phase out fossil...
Island nations unite at UN: ‘Empty pledges’ will not save future generations
Separated by oceans, the leaders were united in their call on the international community to prioritize urgent action and financial support to combat the...
What is sea level rise and why does it matter to our future?
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has been visiting the Pacific Ocean nations, Tonga and Samoa, where sea level rise has been one of the...
We must do more to keep the air we breathe clean: UN weather agency
“Almost everybody on Earth, basically nine out of 10 people breathe air that is essentially unfit for purpose,” said Lorenzo Labrador, Scientific Officer at...
Invisible killer: What is antimicrobial resistance?
Ahead of the General Assembly’s high-level meeting on AMR on 26 September, here’s what you need to know:What is AMR?Since their discovery a century ago,...
