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...
World Environment Day a chance to spark action to restore ailing land |
Restoring land, halting desertification and building resilience against drought are the focus of World Environment Day on 5 June.Up to 40 per cent of...
COP27 PODCAST: The appliance of science |
On Thursday, day four of COP27, the 2022 “10 Insights in Climate Science Report" was released, and the leading scientists involved declared that the...
UN News Today 2 July 2024 |
Gaza: 250,000 set to be displaced by new Khan Younis escalation“Chaos and panic” are spreading in southern Gaza where anestimated 250,000 people are set...
AI is being used by the UN to save lives: UN tech official |...
The potentially transformative effects of Artificial Intelligence have been brought into focus by the UN in recent days, following a major conference in Geneva:...
COP27 PODCAST: Now the hard work begins |
COPs are a marathon, not a sprint. During the first week, country negotiators set the parameters for the serious, and often exhausting, horse-trading that...
UN News Today 3 July 2024 |
Belarus is not safe for anyone critical of authorities, warns rights expertCitizens and civil society critical of the Belarussian authorities face worsening repression, arbitrary...
A letter from a mother in Gaza: Hardships, heartbreak and hope
That day was in November 2023, around a month into the war in Gaza. Ala’a is among an estimated 155,000 pregnant women and new mothers...
‘You need to bring girls back to school’: UN official’s message for Afghan leaders...
Since the Taliban took back power as the de facto authority in Afghanistan in 2021, women’s rights have come under attack.Today, the country barely...
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 News Today 4 July 2024 |
Gaza’s forcibly displaced run out of space to shelterBombing continued overnight into Thursday in Gaza where some of those uprooted in response to Israeli...
Tech optimists from Google use AI to reach development goals |
Melike Yetken Krilla: We are here at the AI for Good Summit to be able to talk about the future of technology and what...
COP27 PODCAST: Manels, mansplaining and Mary Robinson |
The second half of COP27 has begun and there’s uncertainty in the air regarding the progress of negotiations in the packed conference venue.
Monday saw...
UN News Today 5 July 2024
Refugees and migrants face violence, abuse and death on Africa routesOngoing and generalized impunity in Burundi for the ‘Imbonerakure’ youth wingAnd …Hurricane Beryl -...
Alarming levels of global child poverty: UNICEF |
UNICEF has released a new child nutrition report that highlights severe levels of child food poverty due to inequity, conflict, and climate crises.The new...
COP27 PODCAST: Gas lingers on energy day |
The UN is leading calls for an end to fossil fuel use, but lobbying for gas has been a feature of this African COP,...
UN News Today 8 July 2024 |
After nine months of war in Gaza, another UN school suffers Israeli airstrikeThe war over Gaza passed the nine-month mark on Sunday with humanitarians...
Sudan: Where ‘people don’t have tomorrow’ without lifesaving aid, warns UNICEF |
A devastating war in Sudan has left 800,000 people trapped in El Fasher in the west of the vast country, UN humanitarians warned on...
COP27 PODCAST: From the Ocean to the Amazon – biodiversity in crisis |
With just a couple of days to go at COP27, agreement on an agreed text – committing countries to move forward on measures to...
