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Middle East War: UN’s Türk Decries ‘Severe Restrictions’ On Free Speech
Thursday, 2 April 2026, 3:51 pm | UN News
From Iran to multiple nations in the Gulf and the wider Middle East, around 3,000 people have reportedly been arrested in the first month of the ongoing war across the region, sparking alarm over free speech restrictions and state repression. More >>
Lebanon At ‘Breaking Point’ As Displacement Soars And Strikes Intensify
Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 7:03 pm | UN News
The UN’s top humanitarian official warned the Security Council that Lebanon is facing one of its most dangerous moments in years, with escalating violence, mass displacement and deepening human suffering pushing the country to “breaking point”. More >>
Sea Mines Clearance: A New Dimension Of Difficulty
Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 8:44 pm | UN News
Clearing mines laid at sea can be an “extremely challenging and very dangerous” undertaking according to a UN mines expert. More >>
Persian Gulf Crisis Impacting Food Security, FAO Warns
Friday, 27 March 2026, 5:41 pm | UN News
The intensifying conflict in the Persian Gulf “has triggered one of the most rapid and severe disruptions to global commodity flows in recent times,” the Chief Economist with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. More >>
Gulf War ‘Out Of Control’, Guterres Warns, As UN Appoints Envoy To Push For Peace
Friday, 27 March 2026, 5:37 pm | UN News
Speaking outside the UN Security Council in New York to journalists on Wednesday, Mr. Guterres said the conflict had spiralled far beyond what leaders had anticipated. More >>
UN Weather Agency Warns Of Record ‘Climate Imbalance’ As Planetary Warming Accelerates
Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 5:55 pm | UN News
The Earth’s energy imbalance is a new indicator WMO has started tracking, with results pointing to a notable acceleration in the rate at which warming has been progressing between 2001 and 2025. More >>
Iran Nuclear Facility Hit As Equivalent Of ‘1 Classroom Of Children’ Killed, Wounded Daily In Lebanon
Sunday, 22 March 2026, 8:16 pm | UN News
More than 1,000 people have been killed and 2,584 injured in Lebanon since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, UN officials said Saturday. More >>
A Former Refugee Takes On A World In Flight
Sunday, 22 March 2026, 8:13 pm | UN News
Barham Salih has spent much of his life crossing borders, first as a young Kurdish exile fleeing repression in Iraq, and now as the UN top official for refugees, confronting a world in which more than 117M people have been forced from their homes. More >>
Middle East War Shockwaves Ripple Through Asia-Pacific Fuel And Supply Chains
Friday, 20 March 2026, 1:59 pm | UN News
The fallout from the Middle East war is rippling far beyond the Gulf, disrupting fuel supplies, shipping routes & supply chains across Asia & the Pacific, already feeling the strain through rising prices, threats to jobs, food security & remittances More >>
Middle East War Risks Pushing 45 Million More People Into Acute Hunger
Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 1:05 pm | UN News
The Middle East war could cause the worst disruption to lifesaving humanitarian work since COVID, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday, as the UN chief again demanded an end to the widening conflict. More >>
Middle East Crisis: UN Health Agency Releases Emergency Funds For Lebanon, Iraq, Syria
Monday, 16 March 2026, 9:04 pm | UN News
WHO is releasing another $2 million in emergency funds to support health systems in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria as strikes against Iran by the US and Israeli continue amid counterstrikes across the Gulf and wider region by Tehran. More >>
In Beirut, Guterres Demands End To Middle East War: Civilians ‘Deserve To Live Without Fear’
Monday, 16 March 2026, 9:00 pm | UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Saturday called on the international community to intensify support for the Government and people of Lebanon, warning that the south of the country “risks being turned into a wasteland.” More >>
‘No One Should Be A Hibakusha’: Young Japanese Activist’s Mission To Share Atomic Bomb Survivor Stories
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 9:09 pm | UN News
A Japanese peace activist is hoping to promote global nuclear disarmament by keeping alive the stories of the atomic bomb survivors through the creation of a mobile museum. More >>
New Challenges Bring Increased Risks In Combating Child Sexual Abuse, Exploitation
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 9:07 pm | UN News
Despite some progress made globally, children around the world still face serious and evolving risks of being sold, sexually exploited and abused. More >>
Humanitarian Crisis ‘Worsening’ In Afghanistan As War Erupts In The Middle East
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 12:39 pm | UN News
Crises in the region on both Afghanistan’s longest borders are undermining the country’s stability, a senior UN official warned the Security Council on Monday. More >>
Lebanon ‘Dragged Back Into Turmoil’, UN Envoy Warns
Sunday, 8 March 2026, 6:28 pm | UN News
Lebanon has been “dragged back into a state of turmoil and violence”, the UN’s top envoy in the country warned on Saturday, after the latest round of regional strikes triggered a fastescalating crisis along the Blue Line. More >>
Radio Begum: A Rare Public Space For Women In Afghanistan
Sunday, 8 March 2026, 6:26 pm | UN News
Every morning in Kabul, several cars make their way across the Afghan capital to pick up the producers of Radio Begum. The young women do not travel to the office on their own as moving around the city has become too complicated. More >>
On Day Seven Of Middle East War, No Let-Up In Suffering
Saturday, 7 March 2026, 8:27 pm | UN News
The escalating war in the Middle East has heightened growing concerns about further civilian suffering and displacement in the region and far beyond, UN agencies said on Friday. More >>
Imprisoned Iranian Protesters Face ‘Expedited’ Executions
Thursday, 5 March 2026, 9:20 pm | UN News
As US, Israeli and Iranian strikes continued for a fifth day, a top Human Rights Council probe warned on Wednesday that Iranian prisoners including detained protesters face expedited death penalty proceedings. More >>
How AI Is Already Reshaping Working Conditions
Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 5:11 pm | UN News
From delivery couriers compelled to follow the demands of online platform algorithms to content moderators who confront pornography and death every day while training artificial intelligence (AI) systems. More >>
