UN Assembly President calls for global unity as high-level debate concludes
This year’s general debate opened with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva addressing UN’s membership.Over six days, 190 Member States took to the...
UN News Today 29 July 2024 |
Sudan: UN condemns deadly attack on civilians in Al Fasher, North DarfurThe United Nations in Sudan has condemned an attack on a hospital, residential...
Syrian Minister denounces Israel for its ‘seven-decade-long criminal record’
All of these, he told the UN General Assembly, are exacerbated by failures of multilateral diplomacy and the failure of the United Nations to...
UN agencies urge Security Council to stop ‘mass graves for migrants’
“The scale of this tragedy, its impact on survivors, families and communities and the frequency with which we witness deaths in transit constitute an...
Assange release ‘a very good outcome’: UN torture expert |
The UN independent expert on torture said on Monday that the reported plea deal with the United States that has led to the release...
PODCAST: Meet the Special Rapporteurs, independent advocates for human rights |
Appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, but independent, unpaid, and free to speak their minds, Special Rapporteurs occupy a curious space within the...
UN News Today 30 September 2024 |
Lebanon crisis: over one million people flee deadly escalationMore than one million people across Lebanon have been uprooted by ongoing and deadly Israeli airstrikes...
‘Industrialization’ of cocaine production major factor in drug’s popularity |
The Colombian peace process ended decades of conflict with the FARC, but one unintended consequence may have been an increase in cocaine production.According to...
PODCAST: The link between migration, the climate crisis, and human rights |
It is becoming increasingly clear that the climate crisis is having a major impact on migration flows, with millions forced to move from their...
UN News Today 30 July 2024 |
Gazans need polio vaccines as they face a ‘deathly cycle’ of hunger, heat and disease, say humanitariansIn a bid to prevent a polio epidemic...
Relief chief pledges UN aid operation will continue across Gaza |
Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told UN News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that UN humanitarians remain deeply committed to delivering aid across...
PODCAST: Top UN official in Ukraine reflects on a year of war and suffering...
It’s been a year since Russian forces invaded neighbouring Ukraine, the beginning of a conflict that led to the displacement of more than 14...
UN News Today 31 July 2024 |
Israeli military in spotlight over ‘incommunicado’ detention of PalestiniansA new UN human rights office report published Wednesday into alleged abuses carried out against thousands of...
‘Heatwaves will be more frequent because of human-made climate change’ |
Intense heatwaves like the one that blasted the US Midwest and northeast recently are likely to be increasingly common because of human-induced climate change,...
PODCAST: Resurgence of The Gambia – A small country with big ambitions |
The Gambia, the smallest country on the African mainland, and one of the least developed countries in the world, has been going through a...
UN News Today 1 August 2024 |
UNICEF and WHO chiefs call for equal access to breastfeeding supportThe heads of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Top UN envoy warns against rush to end mission in DR Congo |
The UN Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has fully withdrawn from South Kivu, ending the first phase of disengagement...
PODCAST: Resurgence of The Gambia – Tackling period poverty |
Many women and girls in The Gambia are affected by “period poverty”, meaning that they are unable to afford menstrual products, which puts them...
UN News Today 2 August 2024
Heat claims more than 175,000 lives annually in Europe, numbers set to soar: WHOUN’s Middle East peace negotiator urges action to address ‘growing risk’...
Southeast Asia, the ‘ground zero’ for global scamming industry |
Southeast Asia has become the “ground zero” for the multi-billion-dollar global internet scamming industry according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).Transnational...
PODCAST: Resurgence of The Gambia – Meeting the climate challenge |
When it comes to climate action, The Gambia can proudly lay claim to being the first country to meet its commitments under the 2015...
UN News Today 5 August 2024 |
UN rights chief expresses concern over growing conflict risks in the Middle EastThe head of the UN human rights office OHCHR said on Monday...
Gaza: School strikes leave children’s futures in balance, warns UN aid agency |
In Gaza, the recent spate of schools hit in ongoing Israeli bombardment threatens the futures of a “whole generation” of children in the embattled...
PODCAST: Resurgence of The Gambia – Bringing it all back home |
Gambia has the highest per capita emigration rate of any African nation; between 2015 and 2020 over 33,000 Gambians, mainly young men, left home...
