UN News Today 23 October 2025
Gaza: international community to build on current ceasefire toward a comprehensive agreement or risk insecurity…
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Ceasefire offers ‘lifeline’ but Gaza hospitals remain in ruins
Gaza’s health system remains in ruins despite the fragile ceasefire holding, with hundreds of thousands…
UN News Today 22 October 2025
Climate science and early warnings key to saving livesGaza: children are in urgent need of…
UN sounds alarm over spike in sexual violence against women in DR Congo
Women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are trapped in one…
UN News Today 21 October 2025
Gaza: ‘Overwhelming’ demand for food aid, as WFP urges more border access to prevent famineDRC:…
UN rights office sounds alarm over ‘skyrocketing’ Israeli settler violence during olive harvest
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has warned of an…
Women still largely excluded from peace processes
Around 676 million women lived within 50 kilometres of deadly conflict last year – the…
UN News Today 20 October 2025
Kyrgyzstan: Reintroduction of death penalty would violate international law, Türk warns$31 trillion debt is holding…
What happens when Afghan women and girls go offline?
Nearly 70,000 women in Afghanistan tune in to Radio Femme – an all-female-run online and…
The truth is out there
Too often, coordinated misinformation campaigns are amplified and monetized via digital advertising, hampering efforts to…
UN News Today 17 October 2025
UN urges opening of all Gaza crossings to deliver three-month food supplyGroundbreaking report reveals powerful…
UN News Today 16 October 2025
Transform agrifood systems on World Food Day: FAO UN agencies push to scale up aid deliveries…
World Food Day live: The task of feeding the world
Amid the destruction of the Second World War, nations responded to the danger of hunger…
UN rights chief hails Bangladesh prosecutions over enforced disappearances
Bangladesh has begun legal proceedings against security officials accused of sanctioning enforced disappearances and torture…
Afghan quake aftermath: Children facing heightened risk from disease
Over 212,000 Afghan children are now at risk of acute watery diarrhoea and other deadly…
‘Time running out to locate Syria’s missing’, warns head of UN-backed body
At UN Headquarters in New York, Karla Quintana, head of the Independent Institution on Missing…
‘Time running out to locate Syria’s missing’, warns head of UN-backed body
At UN Headquarters in New York, Karla Quintana, head of the Independent Institution on Missing…
UN News Today 15 October 2025
Record rise in carbon dioxide levels during 2024: UN weather agencyGaza: UN relief chief calls…
UN News Today 15 October 2025
Record rise in carbon dioxide levels during 2024: UN weather agencyGaza: UN relief chief calls…
UN News Today 14 October 2025
Gaza: Crucial water treatment centre reopens: UNICEFHaiti: record 5.7 million people in acute hunger: WFPRohingya…
UN News Today 14 October 2025
Gaza: Crucial water treatment centre reopens: UNICEFHaiti: record 5.7 million people in acute hunger: WFPRohingya…
UN News Today 13 October 2025
Gaza: Hostages released, aid is beginning to flow, say aid agenciesSouth Sudan’s escalating political crisis…
UN News Today 13 October 2025
Gaza: Hostages released, aid is beginning to flow, say aid agenciesSouth Sudan’s escalating political crisis…
UN News Today 10 October 2025
Ukraine’s front-line communities among millions enduring a global mental health crisisGazans on the move after…
UN News Today 10 October 2025
Ukraine’s front-line communities among millions enduring a global mental health crisisGazans on the move after…
UN News Today 09 October 2025
Gaza: Aid supplies are on standby, we are ready to deliver, says UN chiefCondemnation for…
UN News Today 09 October 2025
Gaza: Aid supplies are on standby, we are ready to deliver, says UN chiefCondemnation for…
UN News Today 08 October 2025
Gaza City ‘almost deserted’ as the war enters its third yearWHO warns Gaza’s health system…
UN News Today 08 October 2025
Gaza City ‘almost deserted’ as the war enters its third yearWHO warns Gaza’s health system…
UN News Today 07 October 2025
Guterres marks two years since Hamas-led attacks on Israel, UN agencies warn Gaza’s children still…
Deputy UN chief pays tribute to Beijing’s key role in advancing women’s rights
UN Deputy-Secretary General Amina Mohammed has acknowledged the Chinese capital’s enduring association with the fight…
Deputy UN chief pays tribute to Beijing’s key role in advancing women’s rights
UN Deputy-Secretary General Amina Mohammed has acknowledged the Chinese capital’s enduring association with the fight…
Bold, diverse and unstoppable: Girls speak out amid a world in crisis
Adults were in the back seat at UN Headquarters on Friday as girls and young…
Women’s leadership role in peace and security issues ‘going in reverse’, UN chief warns
More women must have a role in shaping peace agreements, security reforms and post-conflict recovery…
Bold, diverse and unstoppable: Girls speak out amid a world in crisis
Adults were in the back seat at UN Headquarters on Friday as girls and young…
Women’s leadership role in peace and security issues ‘going in reverse’, UN chief warns
More women must have a role in shaping peace agreements, security reforms and post-conflict recovery…
Cosmic girls: UN nurtures next generation of space professionals
Nuriya Maharjan first became interested in space exploration during a traditional coming-of-age ritual in which…
Cosmic girls: UN nurtures next generation of space professionals
Nuriya Maharjan first became interested in space exploration during a traditional coming-of-age ritual in which…
‘The extraordinary power of ordinary people’: World leaders spotlight youth as agents of progress
Young people are at the heart of the world’s most urgent challenges, and on Friday,…
High-level week opens with celebration of women’s empowerment
Only the fifth woman to preside over the UN General Assembly in its 80-year history…
‘The extraordinary power of ordinary people’: World leaders spotlight youth as agents of progress
Young people are at the heart of the world’s most urgent challenges, and on Friday,…
High-level week opens with celebration of women’s empowerment
Only the fifth woman to preside over the UN General Assembly in its 80-year history…
30 years of advancing gender equality: Achievements, setbacks, and the road ahead
In the three decades since the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration on women’s rights was adopted by…
India’s Durga Puja, where worship meets social change
India’s eastern state of Bengal transformed this week into the world’s largest public art festival…
India’s Durga Puja, where worship meets social change
India’s eastern state of Bengal transformed this week into the world’s largest public art festival…
‘Tidal wave of emotion’ secures win for young Turkish writer in UN competition
Fifteen-year-old Reyyan Demiriz from Türkiye has been awarded first prize in a UN young writers’…
‘Tidal wave of emotion’ secures win for young Turkish writer in UN competition
Fifteen-year-old Reyyan Demiriz from Türkiye has been awarded first prize in a UN young writers’…
Sudan: As children continue to suffer, school remains a distant hope
Aid agencies working in war-torn Sudan issued an alert on Friday over the particular harm…
Sudan: As children continue to suffer, school remains a distant hope
Aid agencies working in war-torn Sudan issued an alert on Friday over the particular harm…
Attacks on schools surge by ‘staggering’ 44 per cent over the past year
Attacks on schools in conflict zones around the world have increased by a “staggering 44…