Art has the power to inform and preserve history: Youth Poet Laureate |
Poet and activist Salome Agbaroji was awarded the prestigious role of National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States in 2023.A fighter for social...
Haiti reaches ‘yet another crisis point’ as gangs tighten their grip
Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that the country had reached “yet another crisis point,” with heavily armed gangs expanding their...
Despite renewed conflict in eastern DR Congo, protection for civilians is paramount: Keita
That’s according to the head of MONUSCO, Bintou Keita, speaking exclusively to UN News ahead of briefing members of the UN Security Council in New York...
UN News Today 28 March 2025 |
Gaza: Acts of war bear hallmarks of atrocity crimes, warn UN humanitariansLifesaving supplies in Gaza continue to run dangerously low, nearly four weeks into...
Tariffs: Job protectors or trade killers?
Every month, the UN trade and development agency (UNCTAD) provides an update on what’s happening in the world of global trade. In March, the...
DR Congo: ‘Everyone has to silence the guns’: MONUSCO chief |
As violence escalates in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 looking to gain more territory, UN peacekeepers...
‘If countries stop playing by trade rules, poorer countries will suffer’ |
In this episode of The Lid Is On, Conor Lennon from UN News speaks to Luz Maria de la Mora, the Director of the International...
UN News Today 27 March 2025 |
DR Congo: Record numbers face acute or emergency hungerA record 27.7 million people are in the grip of acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
Biological weapons ‘must not only be unthinkable but also impossible’
26 March marks the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) – the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban...
Sudan: Reproductive health agency decries devastating impact of war on women and girls |
Around a third of the 12 million Sudanese displaced following nearly three years of brutal conflict are women and girls of reproductive age, according...
UN News Today 26 March 2025 |
Gaza: No aid has reached war-torn enclave for more than three weeksIt has now been three and a half weeks since Israel imposed a...
Pact for the Future: Countries urged to translate pledges into action
General Assembly President Philémon Yang convened the informal interactive dialogue on the implementation of the Pact for the Future, which covers five areas: sustainable...
Sudanese refugees are literally crawling over the border to Chad, says UNDP |
Chad is seeing an influx of Sudanese refugees whose numbers are expected to pass the one million mark in coming months.Multiple UN agencies including...
‘Reparations can’t be quantified’, says Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka |
Reparations for the crimes of the transatlantic slave trade “can’t be quantified” given the vast historical sweep of human history, according to the first...
World News in Brief: Alarm over Türkiye detentions, Ukraine update, Sudan-Chad border emergency
“These detentions triggered country-wide demonstrations that were met with unlawful blanket bans on protests in three cities,” said OHCHR spokesperson Liz Throssell.More than 1,000...
‘Fragility and hope’ mark new era in Syria amid ongoing violence and aid struggles
On 6 March, armed groups linked to the deposed Assad regime ambushed forces of the caretaker administration led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, targeting military and...
Crimes of the transatlantic slave trade ‘unacknowledged, unspoken and unaddressed’
Addressing the General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres warned that systemic racism, economic exclusion and racial violence continue to deny people of African descent the...
UN News Today 25 March 2025 |
In Gaza, UN aid teams continue vital humanitarian workThe situation for Gazans remains catastrophic because of continuing Israeli bombardment and the ongoing aid blockade,...
Decades of progress in reducing child deaths and stillbirths at risk, UN warns
The death toll for under-fives was 4.8 million in 2023 – a significant decline – with stillbirths falling marginally to around 1.9 million, data...
‘Silence and erasure have no place’ in a just society |
Growing up just a few blocks from the United Nations in New York City, Sarah Lewis was drawn to narratives that shape who belongs...
Guterres to reduce UN aid ‘footprint’ inside Gaza following ceasefire collapse
In the past week, Israel carried out devastating strikes on Gaza, claiming the lives of hundreds of civilians, including United Nations personnel, with no...
Local staff ‘particularly vulnerable’ to detention, as UN calls for their release
In the last year alone 101 UN staff members were arrested or detained globally of whom at least 52 UN personnel remain in detention.The...
UN News Today 24 March 2025 |
In Gaza, UN humanitarians condemn more Israeli attacks on medics, hospitalsOne week since Israeli bombing started again in Gaza, UN humanitarians have described deadly...
Rebuilding Syria: Filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab on the struggle for justice and healing |
After 14 years of war, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 marked a new chapter for Syria.However, with 90 percent of...
