Explainer: How UN peacekeepers meet the challenge of escalating conflict in Lebanon
Here is what you need to know about UNIFIL, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon:Security Council mandateUNIFIL was created by the Security Council in...
Israel: New law blocking UNRWA ‘would be a catastrophe’, Guterres warns
“That’s why I have written directly to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express profound concern about draft legislation that could prevent UNRWA from...
Small islands must wake up to chemical and pollution ‘time bomb’ |
Small island developing States (SIDS) gathered in Antigua and Barbuda this week for the SIDS4 conference should not be afraid to stand up to...
PODCAST: Breaking the silence of poverty |
It’s been thirty years since the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to create the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on 17...
News in Brief 24 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.Chief of key UN agency in Gaza warns ‘entire generation’ could be lostThe head of...
‘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...
Humans and robots unite at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva |
UN News: Today we're talking to Robert Opp, Chief Digital Officer of United Nations Development Programme, which has representation practically all around the globe....
PODCAST: Climate, conflict, and human rights at risk |
Most people are familiar with the phenomenon of refugees, those forced to flee their country of origin, because of a well-founded fear of persecution...
News in Brief 25 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.New famine alert for Gaza where families go days without foodGazans are at “high risk”...
Indian peacekeeper awarded UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year |
Major Radhika Sen, an Indian peacekeeper deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has received the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate...
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...
UN News Today 26 June 2024 |
We'll never abandon Gaza, says UN’s top aid officialUN aid teams and partner organizations remain deeply committed to delivering lifesaving supplies into Gaza, despite...
From Belafonte to Rihanna, the Caribbean has ‘transformed culture’ |
They may be small islands in size – but the countries of the Caribbean are huge exporters of culture and need to remind younger...
PODCAST: Will climate promises be kept at COP27? |
We’re just a few days away from COP27, the UN Climate Conference, which is taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from 07 November.
For this...
UN News Today 27 June 2024 |
This is UN News Today with me Daniel Johnson....the headlines:The famine risk is real across 14 areas of Sudan as the brutal civil war...
Gaza’s healthcare teams must be focus of reconstruction, says WHO |
Nearly eight months of war in Gaza have devastated the enclave’s hospitals and clinics but many skilled medical professionals are still there and committed...
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 07 October 2024 |
UN’s Guterres calls for peace in Gaza, one year since war eruptedOne year to the day since Hamas-led terror attacks on multiple Israeli communities...
World must step up support for SIDS as ‘expression of responsibility’ |
The developed world must increase support for small island developing States “not as an expression of generosity but of responsibility”, the UN’s Special Representative...
COP27 PODCAST: Net-zero promises or greenwashing scams? |
It’s day two of COP27, and Laura and Conor are deciding on a good name for the podcast, and hunting for a good place...
UN News Today 28 June 2024
Over 10,000 patients still waiting to be evacuated from GazaUN Refugee Agency sounds alarm as climate change pounds displaced communitiesUN sexual health agency launches...
SIDS4: Indian Ocean health expert lauds ‘political commitment’ to take action |
A medical epidemiologist working with the Indian Ocean Commission’s One Health initiative says that the number of ministers from small island States attending this...
COP27 PODCAST: Polluter pays? |
The world leaders who congregated in Sharm El Sheik for the first two days of COP27 have left and, whilst the climate negotiators get...
UN News Today 1 July 2024 |
Tens of thousands newly displaced in new Gaza City escalationOngoing, heavy fighting in northern Gaza has now forced an estimated 84,000 people to flee...
