Summit of the Future Explainer: Protect future generations from global decisions made today
In 2025, the Ministry for the Future, a powerful global organization advocating for the rights of the generations to come, convinces bankers and economists...
The power of our choices: from war-torn childhood to Nobel Peace Prize nominee |
A Ugandan man, some of whose family and friends were abducted in the East African country, tells the story of his journey from war-torn...
Climate crisis: Satellites and AI offer hope for global action, says UN weather agency
“The science is clear: we are far off track from achieving global climate goals. 2023 was the warmest year on record by a huge...
Summit of the Future Explainer: Improving the way we run the world…and beyond
A catastrophic climate crisis, a surfeit of nuclear weapons, or unregulated AI: when it comes to potentially existential threats to humanity, there are plenty...
UN News Today 17 September 2024 |
Venezuela: Rights probe points to ‘unprecedented’ repression of criticsViolence used against opponents of the Venezuelan authorities has reached unprecedented levels, a top independent human rights...
World News in Brief: Yemen detainee appeal, Typhoon Yagi impacts, ease asylum seekers’ plight,...
More than 50 personnel from the UN, international and national NGOs, civil society, and diplomatic missions, are being held by the de facto Houthi...
Summit of the Future Explainer: A new global peace plan for ‘uniquely dangerous’ times
The UN has described the current global situation as “uniquely dangerous”, with the risk of major powers engaging in conflict at its highest levels since...
UN humanitarians fight for women’s rights in crisis zones |
Workers with the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, have some of the toughest assignments going in the humanitarian field, helping protect new...
Afghanistan: UN warns of growing crisis under increasingly authoritarian Taliban rule
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, said the country’s de facto rulers who have imposed their own interpretation of strict...
What to expect at the United Nations general debate
The 79th session of General Assembly gets underway in mid-September and the centrepiece for many is the annual general debate. But what exactly is...
UN News Today 18 September 2024 |
Satellites and AI offer hope for global solutions, says UN weather agencyThe UN weather agency and leading climate scientists issued a new warning on...
UN deputy chief urges leaders to increase innovation amid global crises
Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, reminded that solutions are needed as leaders are gathering during time of mounting crises and as debt burdens rise in...
‘Create a future fit for our grandchildren’, Guterres urges, ahead of gamechanger Summit
Mr. Guterres was speaking as negotiations for the Summit of the Future, which opens at UN Headquarters on Sunday, enter the final stretch.“I have...
‘New models’ for UN peacekeeping to support safer and more equitable world |
The future of UN peacekeeping and the “new models” it needs to create to remain relevant in the 21st Century are set to be...
UN chief strongly condemns Mali terrorist attack
Scores of people were reportedly killed in the capital, Bamako, on Tuesday when Islamic militants attacked several locations, including a military police academy, according...
Showing resolve amid crisis: Guterres highlights UN impact in annual report
In his Annual Report on the Work of the Organization, released ahead of the high-level session of the 79th UN General Assembly, Secretary-General António...
UN News Today 19 September 2024 |
HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa choked by growing debt crisis: UNAIDSThe growing public debt crisis in sub-Saharan African countries is preventing the region’s governments...
Whole generation of children ‘lost’ amid ongoing Gaza war, UNICEF warns
Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director for Humanitarian Action, stressed the urgent need for an immediate end to the hostilities and a negotiated political...
Russian attacks on Ukraine energy set to push 500,000 people out of country
The alert from the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine follows significant destruction to power plants and the worsening energy crisis that has...
Trailer: The daily UNGA High-Level Week podcast |
Since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the numbers attending High-Level Week at UN Headquarters in New York have steadily ticked upwards, and this...
