US deportations raise serious human rights concerns
The UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk has voiced concern over the recent deportation…
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Gaza: 57 children reported dead from malnutrition, says WHO
In the aid desert of Gaza, malnourished children are dying while survivors can expect a…
UN News Today 12 May 2025
Gaza: UN agencies insist Israeli aid plan leaves most vulnerable at riskClimate change takes extreme…
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UNFPA calls on US to reconsider ban on future funding
The United States’ decision to halt future funding to the UN sexual and reproductive health…
UN News Today 09 May 2025
Gaza: UN agencies insist Israeli aid plan leaves most vulnerable at riskDeepening hunger alert for…
UN News Today 08 May 2025
Port Sudan: No let-up in drone attacks as UN chief urges peaceGazans suffer while supplies…
‘She cries in her sleep’: Deeper crisis looms beneath devastation from Myanmar quake
An estimated 3,800 people have died as a result of the devastating earthquakes that struck Myanmar…
World News in Brief: South Sudan urged to avoid slide to war, Türk calls on EU not to weaken landmark law, Ukraine and Mali updates
The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) together with the African Union mission there,…
UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples
The UN Human Rights Committee has found that Guatemala did not follow through on promises…
UN News Today 07 May 2025
Gaza: Another school is hit in devastated enclaveOngoing Russian attacks in Ukraine hit civilians hardest,…
UN News Today 06 May 2025
Gaza: Humanitarians reject Israeli proposal to take over aid deliveryExhausted Sudanese women, children flee into…
Lives of pregnant women and newborns at risk as funding cuts impact midwifery support
Midwives are vital frontline workers who can provide up to 90 per cent of essential…
Hospital bombing deepens bleak situation for war-weary South Sudanese
Aid teams in South Sudan warned on Tuesday that repeated attacks on healthcare including the…
More than 30-year difference in life expectancy highlights health inequities
The underlying causes of poor health often stem from factors such as lack of quality…
UN News Today 05 May 2025
Israeli aid blockade on Gaza has caused stillbirths and more: UNFPAAid teams condemn deadly hospital…
FAO calls for action amid foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
Greater awareness and action are needed as Europe and parts of the Middle East grapple…
UN News Today 02 May 2025
Aid blockade of Gaza threatens mass starvationSyria: Independent UN rights investigators’ accountability call, amid sectarian…
Myanmar crisis deepens as military attacks persist and needs grow
More than a month after two powerful earthquakes devastated Myanmar, the country is spiralling deeper…
Journalism facing new threats from AI and censorship
Countries must do everything to ensure that free and independent news reporting can thrive, the…
Reporters in Gaza bear witness and suffer the consequences
“After losing my leg in the war, I returned to photojournalism not just for work,…
UN News Today 01 May 2025
UN Humanitarian Coordinator denounces impact of sweeping aid cutsIsrael urged to allow lifesaving aid into…
Jazz takes centre stage in Chicago for 2026
Chicago has been named host city for the 2026 International Jazz Day festivities – coinciding with…
WHO chief laments most disruptive cuts to global health funding ‘in living memory’
As sudden budget cuts severely impact global health funding, prolonged conflicts around the world are…
Sudan: UN rights chief appeals for greater protection of civilians in besieged El Fasher
More than 500 civilians have been killed in North Darfur state, Sudan, over the past…
Afghanistan: Taliban restrictions on women’s rights intensify
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have followed through on decrees aimed at erasing women from public life…
Anthrax outbreak compounds security crisis in eastern DR Congo
An anthrax outbreak is compounding the worsening security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the…
UN News Today 30 April 2025
Impact of funding cuts is that millions will die, warns UN aid chiefSudan violence continues…
Haiti: Mass displacement and deportation surge amid violence
Marked by mass killings, abductions, and sexual violence, the first quarter of 2025, the human…
First Person: Myanmar aid workers brave conflict and harsh conditions to bring aid to earthquake victims
In the aftermath of the huge 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar on 28 March,…
Plague of rats and insects provide latest challenge for war-shattered Gazans
After suffering almost 18 months of deadly bombardment, displacement and lack of access to basic…
UN News Today 29 April 2025
Children in Gaza are going to bed starving, says UNRWATerrifying aftershocks continue to hamper Myanmar…
UN News Today 28 April 2025
Gaza: Israel’s aid restrictions highlighted at world courtHealth workers linked to rising ‘medicalization’ of female…
One in four female genital mutilation cases now carried out by health workers
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it…
UN News Today 25 April 2025
Ongoing Russian attacks in Ukraine force frontline areas to empty: UNHCRAid teams reach desperate families…
UN News Today 24 April 2025
Condemnation for deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine citiesSudan: Hundreds killed and over 330,000 civilians forced…
UN warns of rising deportations of Haitian mothers and newborns from Dominican Republic
The UN has raised concern over a growing number of vulnerable Haitians – particularly pregnant…
More action needed to beat malaria for good, says UN
Although strong global collaboration has helped to save nearly 13 million lives from malaria over…
Outrage as Russian overnight attacks on Ukraine cities kill at least nine civilians
Grim details continued to emerge on Thursday in the aftermath of a wave of Russian…
Health, education, opportunity at stake, amid stubborn digital gender divide
As transformative technologies such as Artificial Intelligence continue to reshape the global economy, millions of…
UN News Today 23 April 2025
Gazans almost defenceless against rising disease threat, warns UNRWAAI in the workplace is improving workers’…
Largely eradicated diseases at risk of returning due to budget cuts
Vaccines have saved around 150 million lives over the past 50 years, but that progress…
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Sexual violence systematically used as a weapon of war in the DR Congo
The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to have devastating…
Stopping child marriage is key to curbing deadly teen pregnancies: WHO
Teenage pregnancy remains the leading cause of death among 15-19-year-old girls which countries could help…
Climate crisis driving surge in gender-based violence, UN report finds
Without urgent action, climate change could be linked to one in every ten cases of…
UN News Today 22 April 2025
UNRWA chief’s outrage at 50 days of Gaza siege by Israeli forces Hunger stalks Ethiopia…
The $300,000 scam that entrapped a US-based woman from Thailand
A Thai woman has been talking about how she was tricked into handing over more…
UN News Today 21 April 2025
The UN remembers Pope Francis as a ‘transcendent voice for peace’The UN envoy for Haiti…
Challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples, ‘an affront to dignity and justice’
Too many Indigenous people are still being excluded from decisions that directly affect their lands,…
Haiti’s independence debt to France focus of debate at UN
Two centuries to the day after France imposed a crippling debt on Haiti in exchange…
UN News Today 17 April 2025
Gaza war grinds on with journalists banned, but aid teams make gains in healthcare, water,…