Fiery rhetoric sparks ‘real flames’ at UNRWA East Jerusalem office |
Two arson attacks which followed weeks of protests forced UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA to temporarily close its compound in East Jerusalem on Thursday.The...
PODCAST: Reckoning with slavery’s legacy: Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project |
“We can’t heal by ignoring what happened” – that’s one of the key demands for greater racial justice in the United States, from the...
News in Brief 3 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.WFP reaches Haiti’s capital with truckloads of food: WFPIn Haiti, UN humanitarians said on Monday...
Afghanistan: UN assessment teams deployed to flood-affected areas |
Rescue efforts continue in Afghanistan following deadly flash floods in three northeastern provinces this past weekend.The Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP),...
PODCAST: Barbados and the Blue Economy – Sargassum Solutions |
In a four-part mini-series, released in the run-up to the UN Oceans Conference, we explore some of the ocean-related issues facing the eastern Caribbean...
News in Brief 4 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.More than 500 Palestinians killed in occupied West Bank: UN rights chief Violence in the occupied...
Libya: Outgoing UN envoy details challenges to political solution |
A breakthrough in Libya cannot be achieved if leaders continue to monopolise the political process, the outgoing head of the UN mission in the...
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: Barbados and the Blue Economy – Hope and hedgerows |
This is the second in a four-part mini-series, released in the run-up to the UN Oceans Conference, exploring some of the ocean-related issues facing...
News in Brief 5 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.There is an exit off ‘the highway to climate hell’, Guterres insists“It’s climate crunch time”...
‘Gender bias in AI’ impacts technology use on the battlefield, UN expert warns
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly developing and raising concerns on the battlefield, particularly lethal autonomous weapons systems, commonly known as “killer robots”.The United Nations...
PODCAST: Barbados and the Blue Economy – Restoring the reef |
In our third episode looking at ocean-related issues facing the eastern Caribbean island nation of Barbados, released in the run-up to the UN Oceans...
News in Brief 6 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.Dozens feared dead in Israeli airstrike on UNRWA school in Gaza Amid reports that an Israeli...
Sudan civilians ‘want conflict to end’ says WFP’s Deputy Executive Director |
Amidst ongoing armed conflict in Sudan, where millions of civilians are left displaced and food insecure, Deputy Executive Director for the World Food Programme...
News in Brief 7 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.Amid Gaza war, kids now work so families can survive: ILOEight months into the war...
Ukraine crisis reaches new terrifying level as civilians face daily drone and ‘glide bomb’...
Daily attacks by the Russian military in Ukraine have damaged dozens of towns and villages in the south and east of the country but...
PODCAST: Developing northern Uganda – pride in honey |
Northern Uganda has higher poverty and less employment that the south of the country, which is why the UN is backing projects aimed at...
News in Brief 10 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.Almost all women in Gaza say families struggling to surviveEighty per cent of women in...
Urgent aid needed in Gaza amidst unimaginable hardship |
Civilians in Gaza have been dealing with conflict and crises for seven months – a catastrophe that no word in the dictionary could describe,...
Gaza food aid levels at ‘breaking point’
Critical aid lifelines into northern Gaza have been cut off, and no food aid has entered since 1 October, said UN deputy spokesperson Farhan...
PODCAST: Developing northern Uganda – connected farmers |
In Lumonga village, situated in a remote part of the West Nile region of northern Uganda, smallholder farmers have traditionally been cut off from...
The world must step up for girls, UN chief says
The President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSCOC), Bob Rae hosted the meeting. “The importance of insisting on completely equal rights of women...
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...
