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...
‘Risk is changing very quickly’, says UN disaster risk reduction chief |
The recently adopted Pact for the Future has been hailed as a significant milestone in global efforts to promote a disaster risk-informed approach to sustainable...
Middle East crisis: UN human rights office condemns worsening violence
In an appeal for an end to the “killing, destruction bellicose posturing” by those in power, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said...
PODCAST: Developing northern Uganda – a brighter life |
Hundreds of millions of people do not have access to electricity, seriously hampering their ability to improve their development prospects.
In Arua, northern Uganda, where...
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...
News in Brief 11 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.Gaza: ‘High time’ for ceasefire and hostage release, says Guterres A comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza linked...
UN economists fear developing countries could be hit with new ‘resource curse’ | United...
People living in countries rich in the minerals needed for the transition to a net-zero carbon global economy could find themselves victims of a...
PODCAST: Developing northern Uganda – Market forces |
Okubani Market is located in northern Uganda’s Yumbe District, within the Bidibidi refugee settlement which, during the South Sudan civil war, was the largest...
News in Brief 12 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.Guterres hails 60 years of UN trade and development actionThe right to development is inextricably...
Growth in online child sexual exploitation and abuse must be urgently addressed |
300 million children have been affected by online sexual exploitation and abuse over the past 12 months. That’s one shocking revelation from a new report...
PODCAST: The electronic sounds of pan-African collaboration
Uganda’s status as a refuge has seen large numbers escaping conflict in neighbouring and nearby countries, in particular South Sudan and the Democratic Republic...
News in Brief 13 June 2024 |
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.Gaza: 8,000 children diagnosed with malnutrition amid ongoing shellingHeavy shelling reported in the so-called safe...
UN responds to the ‘dramatic, catastrophic humanitarian emergency’ in Lebanon |
UN News: Imran Riza, UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, thank you for joining us today.First of all, how would...
PODCAST: Acknowledging the ‘moral wound’ of slavery
On this week’s Lid Is On, Conor Lennon speaks to two experts on racism against people of African Descent, on the insidious nature of...
UN News Today 10 October 2024 |
Lebanon crisis: Health workers and facilities ‘targeted or hit’In Lebanon, health workers and medical facilities have continued to be hit and killed by ongoing...
‘Pivotal moment’ as violence against children reaches unprecedented levels worldwide
“Millions of children worldwide are victims of physical, sexual, and psychological violence both online and offline, including child labor, child marriage, female genital mutilation,...
