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Global Unemployment Set To Decline Slightly This Year: UN Labour Agency
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 7:28 am | UN News
Global unemployment numbers will fall modestly this year, but unequal access to jobs is still a problem worldwide, particularly for women in poorer countries, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report published on Wednesday. More >>
Gaza: UN Middle East Envoy Reiterates Call For Ceasefire, Hostage Release Agreement
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 5:13 am | UN News
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process on Wednesday urgently called for an immediate return to negotiations, the release of hostages and a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli military assault exacerbates human suffering ... More >>
Funding Is Needed To Support Sudanese Refugees In Chad: UNHCR
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 5:06 am | UN News
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is calling on partners to assist them in supporting about 185,000 Sudanese who have journeyed into Chad and are trying to escape dangerous borders, specifically in Adre border town. More >>
Explainer: Five Tools For Keeping Peace
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 4:26 am | UN News
In 1948, the United Nations took a pivotal step by deploying peacekeepers to support countries in their journey toward peace. Since then, more than two million people have served in over 70 peacekeeping missions around the world, offering assistance ... More >>
Gender Equality, Youth Aspirations Keys To Sustainable Peace, Security Council Hears
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 9:46 pm | UN News
Gender equality and the aspirations of young people are crucial for ensuring sustainable peace and security, the UN’s top political and peacebuilding official told the Security Council on Tuesday. More >>
World News In Brief: Menstrual Hygiene Day, Guterres Condemns DPRK Missile Launch, Conflict In Sudan
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 9:35 pm | UN News
Today marks World Menstrual Hygiene Day and a joint report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) highlights the lack of access millions of schoolgirls have to products, services and appropriate facilities. More >>
Indian Peacekeeper Is UN Military Gender Advocate Of The Year
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 9:30 pm | UN News
An Indian peacekeeper deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), who helped establish networks for local people to voice their security and humanitarian concerns, is the winner of the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the ... More >>
UN Supports Response As Cyclone Remal Batters Communities In Bangladesh, India
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 8:07 am | UN News
At least 16 people are reported to have been killed as the region was hit by Cyclone Remal on Sunday evening, local time, bringing gales of over 110 kilometres per hour (about 70 miles per hour), torrential rain and storm surges that inundated low-lying ... More >>
Guterres ‘heartbroken’ By Images Of Deadly Strikes On Rafah Camp
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 8:05 am | UN News
As fighting continues in Gaza, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday that he was “heartbroken” by images of people killed and injured in airstrikes on Sunday that hit tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah. More >>
Deep Concerns Over ‘Inhuman’ Detention Of Gazans By Israeli Authorities
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:55 am | UN News
UN and partner organizations have expressed deep concern over the “inhuman” detention of suspected Palestinian fighters in the enclave by Israeli authorities, alleging treatment so poor that some had to have limbs amputated “due to prolonged shackling”. More >>
Gaza: Rafah Camp Attack Heightens Focus On Dwindling Health Resources
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:52 am | UN News
UN agencies on Tuesday reiterated their call for an urgent ceasefire and humanitarian access in Gaza following Israeli air strikes on Sunday that hit a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, killing 45 people, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of ... More >>
UN Supports Papua New Guinea Following Deadly Landslide
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:49 am | UN News
The United Nations continues to assist authorities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with search and rescue efforts four days after the massive landslide in Enga province, where some 2,000 people are feared dead and accessing survivors remains a challenge. More >>
SIDS Drowning In Debt And ‘Running On Empty’, Warns Guterres In Antigua
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:47 am | UN News
International financing is the fuel for sustainable development, but small island States are “running on empty” - drowning in debt and rising sea levels due to climate change and through no fault of their own. More >>
Small Island States Meet In Antigua And Barbuda Charting New Course To Sustainable Prosperity
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 4:26 am | UN News
Good morning from the blue waters and lush green hills of the Caribbean where this Monday morning we have been reporting live from the high level opening of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) on the beautiful ... More >>
Gaza: Mass Casualties Reported In Israeli Attack On Camp For Displaced
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 3:55 am | UN News
Dozens of people are believed to have died in an Israeli overnight attack on a camp for displaced Gazans in Rafah in the south of the enclave, the latest gruesome development in more than seven months of war between the Israeli military and Palestinian fighters, ... More >>
In Antigua, Island Youth Build ‘Wall Of Commitment’ To Turn Tide Against Climate Crisis
Monday, 27 May 2024, 5:37 pm | UN News
When world leaders officially open the SIDS4 on Monday, one of the manifestations of young people’s hopes for a better future that will greet them is a solid “wall of commitment” imploring them to take more action against the ravages of climate ... More >>
Alert: COVID-19 eliminated a decade of progress in global level of life expectancy
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 5:14 pm | UN News
Data crunched by the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that the COVID-19 emergency reversed more than a decade of gains in life expectancy, reinforcing the need for countries to agree on a global pandemic treaty to protect future generations. More >>
Alert: WMO warns of up to seven major hurricanes in North Atlantic in 2024
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 5:09 pm | UN News
The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued a warning for an “above average” hurricane season in the North Atlantic in 2024. Based on data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this would mark the ninth ... More >>
Civilians In Ukraine Describe Continued Russian Attacks In Northeastern Regions
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 4:08 pm | UN News
Civilians in the northeast of Ukraine are experiencing escalated hostilities as Russian armed forces have taken control of several villages, according to testimonies received by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). More >>
World News In Brief: UN Aid Chief On Rafah, Gaza Fuel Shortage, Rising Hunger In Haiti
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 4:05 pm | UN News
Global uproar calling for an end to the Israeli incursion in Rafah “has grown too loud to ignore”, UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Friday, in a fresh appeal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages. More >>
