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Pollution, Melting Microbes, Undamming Rivers, Risks For Elders: 4 Key Climate Issues
Monday, 28 July 2025, 7:19 am | UN News
In a world increasingly shaped by climate extremes, environmental experts are delivering a blunt warning: four rapidly emerging threats could reshape life for millions unless urgent action is taken. More >>
1.3 Million Sudanese Return Home, Offering Fragile Hope For Recovery
Sunday, 27 July 2025, 6:51 pm | UN News
With pockets of relative safety emerging in Sudan, over 1.3 million Sudanese people, including one million who were internally displaced and over 300,000 refugees, have returned home, according to UN agencies. More >>
Women And Girls Of African Descent: Celebrating Contributions, Recognising Challenges
Sunday, 27 July 2025, 6:17 pm | UN News
26 July, Friday marks the first observation of the International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent, following a declaration last year by the UN General Assembly. More >>
Torture, Threats And Arbitrary Arrests: UN Warns Of ‘Serious Abuses’ Against Afghans Forced To Return
Friday, 25 July 2025, 9:45 am | UN News
Afghans returning to their country face “serious violations” of their human rights committed by the Taliban de facto authorities, according to a United Nations report published on Thursday amid mass deportation campaigns from Iran and Pakistan. More >>
Deep-Sea Must Not Turn Into ‘Wild West’ Of Rare Minerals Exploitation, Agency Head Says
Friday, 25 July 2025, 9:42 am | UN News
Nations are pursuing underwater exploration for highly sought-after rare earth minerals, but the head of the UN’s ISA said the deep-sea belongs to no single country or corporation as efforts are underway to ensure this rich resource will not become ... More >>
World News In Brief: Thailand-Cambodia Border Hostilities, Humanitarian Efforts In Syria And Attacks Across Ukraine
Friday, 25 July 2025, 8:58 am | UN News
In a dramatic escalation of a long-standing border dispute, a deadly exchange of fire between Thailand and Cambodia killed at least 11 civilians and a soldier on Thursday, according to news reports. Both states are claiming the other side fired ... More >>
‘The UN Is Here To Do The Right Things’: Envoy Colin Stewart Bids Farewell But Keeps The Faith
Friday, 25 July 2025, 8:03 am | UN News
After nearly three decades on the frontlines of UN’s peace operations – from Timor-Leste’s turbulent independence referendum to Western Sahara’s protracted ceasefire and Cyprus’ frozen conflict – Colin Stewart is leaving the Organization ... More >>
UN Forum Affirms Stronger Commitment To Achieve Sustainable Development
Friday, 25 July 2025, 7:33 am | UN News
The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) has concluded following a week-and-a-half of substantive discussion between Member States, civil society representatives and UN agencies. More >>
‘Famine Silently Begins To Unfold’ In Gaza, UNRWA Chief Says
Friday, 25 July 2025, 7:11 am | UN News
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” More >>
‘Catastrophic Birth Outcomes’ In Gaza Threaten A Whole Generation, Warns UN Agency
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 3:31 pm | UN News
Pregnant women and newborns in Gaza face “catastrophic” conditions, including a dysfunctional healthcare system, psychological stress and food deprivation, the UN reproductive health agency UNFPA reported on Wednesday. More >>
World Court Says Countries Are Legally Obligated To Curb Emissions, Protect Climate
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 1:36 pm | UN News
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, issued its advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change, read out by the President of the Court, Judge Iwasawa Yuji, on Wednesday. More >>
Nigeria: Amid Record Hunger And Surging Insecurity, Emergency Food Assistance To Stall Entirely
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 11:59 am | UN News
At a time of escalating violence and record levels of hunger in Nigeria, critical funding shortfalls are forcing the UN World Food Program (WFP) to suspend all emergency food and nutrition aid for 1.3 million people in the northeast of the country. More >>
Haiti: Violence And Displacement Driving Humanitarian Crisis As Funding Needs Go Unmet
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 11:53 am | UN News
Escalating gang violence and displacement continue to drive humanitarian needs in Haiti, the UN said on Wednesday. More >>
Syria: Second Convoy Brings Critical Aid To Sweida
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 11:48 am | UN News
A second convoy from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) reached battered Sweida on Wednesday, the UN Office for the Coordinatin of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in its latest update. More >>
Home Is Where The Heart Is – And Where Development Begins
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 10:16 am | UN News
When Denis Jobin, a senior evaluation specialist at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), visited a slum in Kenya in March as part of an ongoing evaluation, the smell was overwhelming. More >>
UN Official Reiterates Call For Gaza Ceasefire As ‘Nightmare Of Historic Proportions’ Unfolds
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 10:06 am | UN News
A senior UN official on Wednesday urged the Security Council to push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages, warning that the war has become “a nightmare of historic proportions” and it is “long past time” for the ... More >>
Sudan: UN Scales Up Response Plan As Humanitarian Needs Spiral In Tawila
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 12:13 pm | UN News
As the humanitarian crisis deepens in Sudan, the UN and partners have revised and scaled up a response plan to support more than 380,000 displaced people in Tawila, North Darfur state. More >>
‘Perfect Storm’ Of Global Crises Drove Years Of Food Price Surges: FAO
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 9:56 am | UN News
The chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Máximo Torero Cullen, previewed its annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report in a briefing on Tuesday to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York. More >>
Security Council, In Unanimous Vote, Presses Nations To Resolve Disputes Peacefully
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 9:30 am | UN News
The UNSC adopted a resolution urging all Member States to “utilize effectively” the mechanisms for pacific settlement of disputes as outlined in the UN Charter, including “negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial ... More >>
Food Lifeline Fading For Millions In South Sudan Hit By Conflict And Climate Shocks
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 8:23 am | UN News
South Sudan’s dramatic hunger crisis is worsening and millions of people there could miss out on food aid because of the global humanitarian funding crisis, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. More >>
