UN News Today 10 March 2025 |
Amid escalating violence in Syria, aid teams work to reach civilians in dangerIn Syria, humanitarians reiterated deep concerns on Monday that hundreds of people...
Syria: Children among the dead amid reports of mass killings and looting
According to Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East, a six-month-old baby was among at least 13 children reported to have been...
Syrian conflict leaves ‘devastating legacy’ of landmines |
Explosive ordnance continues to claim lives across Syria, with more than 500 people killed or reported injured since December, according to the UN Mine Action...
Ukrainian war means that for many, life begins in an air-raid shelter |
Dangerously high stress levels and widespread mental health challenges continue to take a devastating toll on civilians in Ukraine, particularly on women and girls,...
Scores killed in ‘abhorrent attack’ on UN helicopter in South Sudan
More than two dozen members of the South Sudanese military, including an injured General, were also reportedly killed when the UN mission (UNMISS) helicopter...
Lebanon: ‘No one can prepare you for the loss of a child’
By the time a ceasefire began last November ending the devastating war in Lebanon between Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli military, more than 4,000...
UN News Today 07 March 2025 |
DR Congo crisis leaves mothers with newborns fleeing to BurundiThe aid response in Burundi to the crisis in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo...
Post-Assad Syria faces critical test over eliminating chemical weapons
Briefing ambassadors, Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, welcomed steps taken by the country’s new authorities to engage with the Organisation for...
Syria: Up to one million people plan to return home in desperation
According to UN refugee agency, UNHCR, 600,000 people could be on the move in the next six months, according to its latest survey.
UNHCR spokesperson...
Zimbabwe: probe ongoing for missing activist Itai Dzamara |
Zimbabwe’s human rights record has been in the spotlight at the UN.
In a scheduled review of the country this week, the government responded to...
Online ‘manosphere’ is moving misogyny to the mainstream
The pushback against gender equality is one of the findings in a major report from UN Women, the UN agency for gender equality, on...
LIVE UPDATES: Women’s Day around the world
International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March, is about challenges, backlashes against gender equality and cause for celebrations around the world. Join us as...
UN emergency aid fund releases $110 million for neglected humanitarian crises
The UN’s top aid official, Tom Fletcher, said that more than 300 million people urgently need assistance.But funding has been falling annually, and this...
UN News Today 06 March 2025 |
Sudan: Access to stricken Zamzam camp ‘is nearly impossible’Civilians sheltering in the vast Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region are now “nearly...
Is feminism under attack? |
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a key UN policy document adopted in 1995, has been credited for several major advances for women,...
Funding cuts jeopardize global fight against tuberculosis, WHO warns
The health agency highlighted that essential prevention, testing and treatment services are collapsing, leaving millions at risk.The hardest-hit regions include Africa, Southeast Asia, and...
World News in Brief: Guterres convenes Cyprus summit, violence continues in southern Lebanon, UN...
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at the regular daily briefing in New York that the leaders of both the Turkish Cypriot and Greek...
UN News Today 05 March 2025 |
Gaza: Israeli aid restrictions threaten care for most vulnerable, warns UNICEFThe aid blockade announced by Israeli authorities on Sunday has left Gazans afraid of...
‘Humanity’s future depends on investing in the machinery of peace’: UN chief
Celebrated on 5 March, it is an opportunity to reinforce global commitments to reducing arms and advancing peace.
This year, the observance coincides with the...
Famine looms in Somalia without funding boost, WFP says
The East African country faced famine in 2022, but a scale-up in humanitarian assistance helped to avert catastrophe.Today, food insecurity on the increase once...
‘Let us never lose hope’: Young leaders on the frontlines of climate action |
From rising tides threatening coastal communities, to the urgent need for global energy transition, climate change is no distant crisis – it is a...
UN News Today 04 March 2025 |
Gaza’s recovery must be built on more than steel and concrete: GuterresThe UN Secretary-General on Tuesday stressed that the “true foundation” of recovery and...
‘Dangerous nuclear rhetoric and threats’ trigger stark wake-up call: UN chief
“Critical disarmament instruments are being eroded,” said Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, who spoke on behalf of the UN chief at the opening...
Nuclear energy watchdog chief raises ‘serious’ safety concerns over sites in Ukraine and Iran
Reaffirming the UN-backed IAEA’s commitment to monitoring facilities such as the Khmelnitsky, Rivne and South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), he described how facilities...
