UN News Today 10 March 2025
Syria escalation: UN aid teams working to reach civilians in danger: OCHAGazans face substantial drop…
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Explainer: The Commission on the Status of Women and why it matters
Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first…
Ukraine reels from one of the deadliest days of war
Attacks across Ukraine on Friday reportedly left 21 civilians dead and scores injured, making it…
UN rights chief raises alarm over escalating violence in Syria
The killing of civilians in coastal areas in northwest Syria must cease immediately, the UN…
Online ‘manosphere’ is moving misogyny to the mainstream
A decline in democracy and harmful content spread on social media platforms are helping to…
WOMEN’S DAY LIVE: ‘Equality is the gamechanger’
International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March, is about challenges, backlashes against gender equality and…
UN News Today 07 March 2025
As thousands continue to flee violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the aid…
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…
Is feminism under attack?
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a key UN policy document adopted in 1995,…
UN News Today 06 March 2025
Sudan: Access to stricken Zamzam camp ‘is nearly impossible’UN emergency aid fund releases $110 million for…
One in four countries report backlash against women’s rights in 2024
The basic rights of women and girls are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher…
Choose compassion, reject cruelty to end HIV, says top UN rights official
Global efforts to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic continue to remain insufficient, with deadly consequences, the…
UN News Today 05 March 2025
Gaza: Israeli aid restrictions threaten care for most vulnerable, warns UNICEFUkraine’s Odesa hit in Russian…
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Funding cuts jeopardize global fight against tuberculosis, WHO warns
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that severe funding cuts – particularly…
Syrians’ hopes for a better future depend on justice for the disappeared, Human Rights Council hears
The people of Syria’s painful search for a peaceful future took centre stage at the…
UN report reveals brutal attacks targeting Muslims, refugees in Central African Republic
A UN report released on Wednesday has uncovered a pattern of grave human rights violations…
Sudan: Children as young as one raped during conflict, UNICEF warns
As conflict rages across Sudan, armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children, including some…
UN News Today 04 March 2025
Gaza’s recovery must be built on more than steel and concrete, says UN chiefThe crisis…
Almost 80,000 flee DR Congo amid fighting, sexual violence: UNHCR
In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), insecurity and horrific sexual violence have…
‘Rapid expansion’ of synthetic drugs reshaping illicit markets, UN anti-narcotics body warns
Synthetic drugs are rapidly transforming the global drug trade, fuelling an escalating public health crisis,…
UN News Today 03 March 2025
At a time of war, nations must stop global order from crumbling: UN rights chiefDeep…
At a time of war, nations must stop global order from crumbling: UN rights chief
As 120 conflicts rage around the world from the DR Congo to Gaza and from Sudan…
Bahrain’s pearling legacy: Reviving a millennia-old culture
Bahrain, with its shallow waters and rich oyster beds, has long been synonymous with pearls,…
UN News Today 28 February 2025
There can be no ethnic cleansing as part of reconstruction in Gaza, insists UN chief…
‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief
Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner…
UN News Today 27 February 2025
Thailand called out for forcible return of Uyghurs to ChinaUN rights chief condemns ‘dehumanizing’ narratives around…
Packed with promise: Wisam’s journey back to school in Sudan
Wisam sits in her classroom, absorbed in her work, her fingers gripping a blue-coloured pencil,…
Human Rights Council: Türk calls out ‘dehumanizing’ narratives on Gaza
UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the “abhorrent,…
UN agencies condemn Thailand’s deportation of Uyghurs to China
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) together with refugee agency, UNHCR, on Thursday strongly condemned…
DR Congo: WHO tracks deadly mysterious illness
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and experts from the World…
Greatest threat to UN Peacekeeping is divisions between nations, says UN Peace Operations Chief
Peacekeeping efforts by the United Nations are being challenged by growing disunity between Member States,…
UN News Today 26 February 2025
Gaza ceasefire must hold, human rights chief insistsWest Bank security situation deeply alarming, warns UNOCHANicaragua’s…
New report flags severity of US funding cuts to global AIDS response
Shuttered clinics and health workers laid off around the world reflect the widespread, negative toll…
Human Rights Council: Gaza ceasefire must hold, Türk insists
UN human rights chief Volker Türk issued a strong appeal on Wednesday for the fragile ceasefire in…
UN News Today 25 February 2025
UN human rights chief decries substantial increase in executions globallyEurope faces a ‘cradle to cane’…
World News in Brief: Conflict in DR Congo, Europe’s ‘cradle to cane’ crisis, millions may go hungry in Chad
Ongoing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between Rwanda-backed M23 rebels…
WHO marks 20 years of its lifesaving tobacco control treaty
A UN treaty that addresses the global tobacco epidemic has saved millions of lives over…
UN rights chief decries substantial rise in death penalty executions
International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights…
UN News Today 24 February 2025
World’s ‘warmongers must end disdain for global order, UN chief insistsGaza polio vaccination update Breast…
UN report urges Colombia to protect civilians amid ongoing violence
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has issued a stark warning about ongoing violence in Colombia…
Breast cancer cases projected to rise by nearly 40 per cent by 2050, WHO warns
Breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 38 percent globally by 2050, with annual…
World’s ‘warmongers’ must end disdain for global order, UN chief insists
With no end to numerous protracted conflicts – not least in Ukraine, three years to…
New round of polio vaccinations begins in Gaza
The latest large-scale polio vaccination drive in Gaza targeting some 600,000 children under age 10…
Explainer: 5 common myths about child marriage
Every day, almost one in five young women are married off while still children, according to…
UN News Today 21 February 2025
UN chief condemns ‘parading’ of hostages by Hamas in GazaThree years since Russian invasion, Ukrainians…
UN News Today 20 February 2025
DR Congo violence has pushed 35,000 to Burundi, says UN refugee agencyUN chief outlines peacekeeping…
New children’s book promotes the value of all languages
Language is one of the distinctive features that makes us human, and a new book…
From suits to social justice: World’s top human rights forum turns stage over
The iconic multi-hue ceilinged UN Human Rights Council chamber in Geneva got a generational make-over…
Ukraine: Three years of war reverses progress for women and girls
Three years of war in Ukraine have reversed decades of progress for women and girls,…
UN News Today 19 February 2025
DR Congo crisis: Civilians at breaking point in eastern DR Congo warns top aid official,…