Haiti: Over 20,000 flee as gang violence spurs mass displacement
Haiti has faced instability since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The current wave of displacement, the largest since August 2023, comes as armed...
UN News Today 16 August 2024 |
The perpetrators of a deadly rampage through a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank must face justice to deter future attacks, the UN...
COP27 PODCAST: Beans, bugs, and a better deal for farmers
Saturday is a working day at COP, allowing negotiators just one day to catch their breath, before the really hard work of hammering out...
UN, INGOs call for immediate release of detained personnel in Yemen
In a joint statement, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Yemen, the heads of UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, WFP, WHO and OHCHR, and...
PODCAST: Meet the Special Rapporteurs, independent advocates for human rights |
Appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, but independent, unpaid, and free to speak their minds, Special Rapporteurs occupy a curious space within the...
UN News Today 31 October 2024 |
‘Catastrophic’ hunger persists in multiple countries, warn food agencies“Catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity” bordering on starvation are expected to impact hundreds of thousands...
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: 5 fast facts
The landmark legally binding treaty entered into force on 3 May 2008, marking a major milestone in the effort to promote, protect and ensure the...
Lebanon: UN peacekeepers to stay the course amid escalating hostilities
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, expressed deep alarm over the escalation in southern Lebanon and the impact on civilians, reiterating the need...
UN News Today 10 September 2024 |
UN envoy condemns deadly strike on Gaza camp in humanitarian zoneThe UN Middle East envoy strongly condemned deadly airstrikes by the Israeli Defense Forces...
UN News Today 29 October 2024 |
UNRWA cannot be replaced, say UN top officials in response to Knesset banTop UN officials continued to line up on Tuesday to defend the...
UN News Today 31 July 2024 |
Israeli military in spotlight over ‘incommunicado’ detention of PalestiniansA new UN human rights office report published Wednesday into alleged abuses carried out against thousands of...
Hong Kong: 45 activists sentenced under controversial National Security Law
Spokesperson for the UN human rights office Jeremy Laurence condemned the use of the National Security Law to criminalise activities which are protected under...
Guterres ‘personally devastated’ over inability of UN to safeguard staff in Gaza, despite best...
Among them were 135 women and men who worked for the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees (UNRWA), killed during Israeli military operations in Gaza...
Twenty years on: Indonesia ‘better prepared’ following tsunami
The lyrics include references to an earthquake, a massive wave, land submerged under water and locating to higher ground.“When there is an earthquake and...
PODCAST: Resurgence of The Gambia – Bringing it all back home |
Gambia has the highest per capita emigration rate of any African nation; between 2015 and 2020 over 33,000 Gambians, mainly young men, left home...
UN chief calls for safety of peacekeepers after IDF breaches UN position in Lebanon
The incident took place early on Sunday morning (local time), when two IDF Merkava tanks destroyed the main gate and forcibly entered the position,...
UN News Today 22 October 2024 |
‘Smell of death is everywhere’ in northern GazaThe head of the UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA appealed on Tuesday for an immediate truce in...
Outgoing General Assembly president ‘bullish on the UN’, despite mounting crises
Speaking on the eve of the end of his mandate, Mr. Francis described his year at the helm of the UN’s main policy-making body...
‘Create a future fit for our grandchildren’, Guterres urges, ahead of gamechanger Summit
Mr. Guterres was speaking as negotiations for the Summit of the Future, which opens at UN Headquarters on Sunday, enter the final stretch.“I have...
COP27 PODCAST: Lost and damaged |
COP27, the UN climate conference, has begun in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Conor Lennon and Laura Quinoňes are at the...
UN News Today 20 November 2024 |
In the 2050s, eight times as many children globally will be exposed to heatwaves: UNICEFBy the 2050s, eight times as many young people all...
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: Driving the climate agenda at UNGA77 |
On this week’s episode of The Lid Is On, we look at how the issue of the climate emergency has been raised during the...
Negotiators advance plastic pollution treaty amid ‘extremely ambitious timeline’ |
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has reported significant progress in talks this week in Ottawa to draw up the world’s first treaty curbing plastic pollution next...
