UN News Today 01 October 2024 |
UN chief ‘extremely concerned’ over Lebanon escalationThe Secretary-General has said that he’s extremely concerned with the escalation of the conflict in Lebanon and has...
PODCAST: Can we end torture?
Nearly four decades on from the adoption of the UN Convention against Torture, there is evidence that it is still taking place in all...
Belarus: Violations remain ‘widespread and systematic’, says independent expert group
The Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus established in 2024, was tasked with investigating alleged violations since 2020 –...
PODCAST: Filling the 4 trillion dollar development gap |
$4.3 trillion: that’s the estimated cost of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a blueprint for a fairer future, covering all of the...
UN chief strongly condemns Mali terrorist attack
Scores of people were reportedly killed in the capital, Bamako, on Tuesday when Islamic militants attacked several locations, including a military police academy, according...
WHO continues to urge China to share data five years after COVID-19
WHO recalled that on 31 December 2019, its Country Office in China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from...
UN Syria crimes investigators ready to gather evidence in the country ‘within days’ |
After eight years gathering evidence of serious crimes committed by members of the Assad regime, the International Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), a body...
UN News Today 14 August 2024 |
Gaza remains at high risk of polio virus spread, warns UNICEFThe risk of polio spreading in Gaza remains high unless there’s an urgent action...
UN News Today 21 January 2025 |
UN regrets US exit from global cooperation on health, climate change agreementUN agencies responded on Tuesday to President Trump’s executive orders ending US membership...
UN News Today 24 February 2025 |
World’s ‘warmongers’ must end disdain for global order, UN chief insistsThree years since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, UN chief António Guterres...
Gaming industry faces growing security concerns: UN experts |
The global gaming industry – now five times larger than Hollywood with a value of $196 billion – faces growing security challenges as violent...
UN News Today 09 October 2024 |
‘No end to hell’ in northern Gaza, warns UN aid agency chiefThe head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, warned on Wednesday...
Stories from the UN Archive: How the UN was founded amid the ashes of...
We are taking you back to the summer of 1945, when leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree upon an international...
Yemen: Malnutrition expected to ‘increase significantly’ during current lean season |
Acute malnutrition is rapidly increasing among young children in Government-controlled areas in Yemen, UN agencies and partners warned in a report published this week.The...
UN News Today 11 February 2025 |
Gaza: Return to war must be avoided at all costs, insists UN chiefA return to war in Gaza must be avoided at all costs,...
UN News Today 11 October 2024 |
Myanmar is spiralling, warns UN chief in peace call to ASEAN nationsAs hostilities in Myanmar sparked by a 2021 military coup plunge millions into...
‘Indescribable’ pain one year after 7 October attacks
The war in Gaza was sparked following a brutal attack by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in southern Israel and has led to...
Georgia: Malaria-free certification ‘a huge milestone worth marking’
It now joins 45 countries and one territory that have achieved this milestone.“Today we congratulate the people of Georgia for their decades of targeted...
Lebanon: Calls for ceasefire amid escalating displacement and shelling
Addressing the UNHCR Executive Committee in Geneva, High Commissioner Filippo Grandi said that nowhere is “uncertainty and anxiety more palpable at the moment than...
UN News Today 27 March 2025 |
DR Congo: Record numbers face acute or emergency hungerA record 27.7 million people are in the grip of acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
News in Brief 29 May 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.Gaza medics struggling in face of ‘overwhelming disaster’ as vital supplies run low: WHOVital medical...
UN chief ‘shocked’ at harrowing death and destruction in north Gaza
Since the offensive began earlier this month, hundreds of people have been killed, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, with more than 60,000 others...
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...
World News in Brief: Deaths and injuries mount in Ukraine, refugees from Sudan, Vanuatu...
In October and November alone, there were more than 2,180 civilian deaths and injuries, while nearly 40,000 people have been uprooted by fighting in...
