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Deadly And Growing Impact Of Air Pollution Laid Bare In New UNICEF-backed Report
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 4:57 am | UN News
The State of Global Air (SoGA) report published in partnership with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns on Wednesday that air pollution is increasingly impacting human health - and is now the second leading global risk factor for premature death. More >>
Stop ‘vandalising’ Earth And Help The Planet Thrive, UN Chief Urges
Monday, 17 June 2024, 3:48 am | UN News
As nearly 40 per cent of land across the planet is degraded with more acres lost every second, governments, businesses and communities must galvanize action to reverse the damage and protect Earth, the UN chief said. More >>
War In Ukraine Should Not Be ‘new Normal’, Warns Top Humanitarian There
Sunday, 16 June 2024, 4:13 am | UN News
A surge of attacks by Russian forces on the Kharkiv area of Ukraine is causing significant civilian casualties, as well as the destruction of homes and crucial infrastructure, the top UN official in Ukraine said today, in a plea not to “normalize” the dire ... More >>
Climate Change Fuels Tensions In Nigeria
Sunday, 16 June 2024, 4:03 am | UN News
Despite its huge potential, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, continues to grapple with a host of challenges which are impacting people’s lives and triggering conflict over key resources, a senior UN official in the country said on Friday. More >>
World News In Brief: Rights Abuses In Ethiopia Must End, El Fasher Crisis Update, UN Stands With Niger
Sunday, 16 June 2024, 3:51 am | UN News
The head of the UN human rights office (OHCHR) Volker Türk on Friday called for serious measures to be taken to end human rights violations that are jeopardizing reconciliation and peace efforts in Ethiopia. More >>
Conflict And Lawlessness Hamper Food Aid Delivery In Gaza: WFP
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 5:00 am | UN News
Escalating fighting in the south and centre of Gaza makes it near-impossible for humanitarians to deliver desperately needed food aid, the Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Carl Skau, said on Friday at the end of a two-day ... More >>
Security Council Demands End To Siege Of El Fasher In Sudan
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 4:13 am | UN News
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Thursday that calls for the paramilitary Rapid Security Forces (RSF) in Sudan to halt their siege on El Fasher, capital of North Darfur state. More >>
Haiti: UN Chief Welcomes New Government Amid Ongoing Challenges
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 4:11 am | UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday welcomed the swearing in of Haiti’s new Government, urging stakeholders to continue making progress towards restoring democratic institutions through elections. More >>
World News In Brief: Ukraine Attacks Continue, Education In Africa, Albinism Update
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 4:09 am | UN News
The UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown on Thursday said she was ‘appalled’ by the scale of Russia’s overnight attack on Kryviy Rih City in the Dnipro Region. More >>
Global Efforts To End Female Genital Mutilation Undermined By ‘vacation Cutting’
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 3:58 am | UN News
The global fight to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM) is being undermined by the movement of some girls across national borders and beyond to undergo the procedure, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) warned in a new report published on Friday. More >>
COSP17: Tunisian Change Maker Invents A Sustainable Vehicle
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 3:21 am | UN News
Khadija Jallouli, a young Tunisian entrepreneur with a disability, called for redoubling international efforts aimed at integrating people with disabilities and involving them in decisions related to finding solutions to the challenges they face. More >>
UN Envoy Warns Yemenis Not To Return To The Battlefield
Friday, 14 June 2024, 10:02 am | UN News
After months of relative stability in Yemen between Government and Houthi forces, a return to all-out war is looking inevitable unless the current escalation in violence is halted, the top UN envoy for the country said on Thursday. More >>
ICC Prosecutor Appeals For Evidence Of Darfur Atrocities
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:47 am | UN News
The Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched a campaign on Tuesday to address the unfolding crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan, amid the going war between rival military forces that erupted last April. More >>
Ukraine Recovery Conference: UN Sounds Alarm Over Humanitarian Funding
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:40 am | UN News
The UN is becoming increasingly concerned over falling levels of humanitarian funding for civilians across war-torn Ukraine, the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) told delegates to the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin on Wednesday. More >>
Waiting Would Be ‘death Sentence’ For Millions On Brink Of Starvation: Relief Chief
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:29 am | UN News
Millions of people are teetering on the brink of starvation as conflict rages across many corners of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in Sudan and Gaza, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday. More >>
UN Reports ‘shocking’ Rise In Violations Against Children In Conflict In 2023
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:10 am | UN News
Violence against children caught in armed conflict reached “extreme levels” last year, with a “shocking” 21 per cent increase in extreme violations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a report published on Thursday. More >>
Stories From The UN Archive: Nigerian Nobel Laureate Condemns Online Hate
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:00 am | UN News
When the world celebrates the Day of Living Together in Peace, we are looking back at how Nobel Laureate for Literature, Wole Soyinka, wielded powerful words to clobber online hate speech, call out religious extremism and refute the notion that human ... More >>
Guterres Highlights ‘Unique Level Of Destruction’ In Gaza Ahead Of G7 Summit
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 9:40 pm | UN News
A stark message to the world’s richest nations ahead of the G7 Summit in Italy to do more to help emerging economies crippled by debt repayments. More >>
Life In DPR Korea Still ‘Daily Struggle Devoid Of Hope’ Warns Human Rights Chief
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 8:17 am | UN News
The international community must continue to pay close attention to the troubling human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and find ways to revive dialogue with the Government, the UN Security Council heard on ... More >>
Guterres Hails 60 Years Of UN Trade And Development Action
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 5:04 am | UN News
The right to development is inextricably linked with trade which the world’s poorest countries - now “mired in debt” through no fault of their own - have every right to pursue on much fairer terms, UN chief António Guterres insisted on Wednesday. More >>
