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Afghanistan: Surging Returns From Iran Overwhelm Fragile Support Systems, UN Agencies Warn
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 8:06 am | UN News
More than 700,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran so far this year, including 256,000 in June alone, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday, warning of immense pressures on Afghanistan’s overstretched support ... More >>
Human Rights Can Be A ‘Strong Lever For Progress’ In Climate Change, Says UN Rights Chief
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 7:18 am | UN News
The UN’s top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change. More >>
Syria: UN Commission Hails Recent Action To Address Past Violations
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:58 pm | UN News
The interim authorities in Syria have taken important steps in recent weeks to address past violations, the Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the country said on Friday in an update to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. More >>
Sudan: ‘Fighting Shows No Signs Of Abating,’ Senior UN Official Tells Security Council
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:57 pm | UN News
Three years into the conflict in Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) continue to pursue a military solution, violating international law and the rights of civilians in the process. More >>
Lacroix Upholds Role Of UN Peacekeeping In Lebanon And Syria
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:55 pm | UN News
The head of UN Peacekeeping affirmed the critical role played by the “blue helmets” in Lebanon and Syria during a press conference at Headquarters in New York on Friday. More >>
DR Congo: Despite Efforts Towards A Political Solution, Violence Still Rages In The East
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:54 pm | UN News
As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC. More >>
New UN Report Charts Path Out Of Debt Crisis Threatening Global Development
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:53 pm | UN News
A decade after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development is facing serious headwinds – including what UN officials describe as a “silent crisis” of surging debt service payments in low-income countries. More >>
Myanmar Human Rights Crisis Deepens As Aid Collapses, Attacks Intensify
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:51 pm | UN News
Myanmar is spiralling deeper into humanitarian catastrophe, the UN’s top human rights official warned on Friday, as escalating military attacks, crippling aid restrictions and collapsing international support push millions toward starvation and despair. More >>
‘Global Solidarity Benefits Us All’: Spain Makes The Case For Development Funding
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:50 pm | UN News
Funding cuts to international development have cast a pall over a major UN-led international conference set to address the huge challenges faced by countries in the Global South. More >>
Gaza: Health System Crumbles Amid Growing Desperation Over Food, Fuel
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:47 pm | UN News
The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclave’s people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) ... More >>
Tide Of Change In Philippines As Women Revive Watersheds And Livelihoods
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:46 pm | UN News
In the coastal town of Sasmuan, Philippines, life flows with the river’s tide. At dawn, slender boats glide through calm waters as fishing nets are cast beneath the warming sky. More >>
Faith In Finance: Indonesia's Innovative Path To Sustainable Development
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:44 pm | UN News
Indonesia has been putting its faith in innovative approaches to financing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the internationally agreed targets to end poverty, hunger and inequality, fight climate change and preserve the planet. More >>
Short-Range Drone Attacks Deepen Crisis On Ukrainian Frontlines
Monday, 30 June 2025, 2:57 pm | UN News
Attacks with short-range drones killed at least 395 civilians and injured 2,635 between February 2022 – the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – and April 2025, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission (HRMMU) has reported. More >>
Guterres Welcomes Peace Deal Between DR Congo And Rwanda
Sunday, 29 June 2025, 5:33 am | UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed on Friday in the United States capital, Washington, DC. More >>
Sevilla Conference On Development Financing Shows Optimism For Multilateralism
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 9:58 pm | UN News
It’s been 10 years since the Addis Ababa Action Agenda was established to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world’s roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet and tackling inequalities. More >>
Responsibility To Protect: An Unfulfilled Promise, A Ray Of Hope
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 9:56 pm | UN News
The UN Secy-General has warned that the world today is failing to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes, calling for a renewed global commitment to the Responsibility to Protect – a principle adopted two decades ago that remains, in his words, “a ... More >>
‘Our Kids Cry For Food’: Most Gaza Families Survive On One Meal A Day
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 9:53 pm | UN News
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners. More >>
‘A Moral Failure’: Security Council Hears About Grave Violations Against Children Caught In War
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 7:27 am | UN News
When Sila, a young woman from Idlib in Syria, was three years old, she woke up to missiles falling around her, forcing her and her family to flee their home. More >>
Energy Access Has Improved, But More Funding Is Needed To Address Disparities: WHO
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 6:12 am | UN News
Although nearly 92 per cent of the global population now has basic access to electricity, more than 666 million people still live without it, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to urge greater financial support for renewable energy. More >>
Guterres Calls For Immediate Gaza Ceasefire As Humanitarian Crisis Reaches ‘Horrific Proportions’
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 5:50 am | UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, warning that the humanitarian crisis has reached “horrific proportions” and that the world must not let the suffering of Palestinians be overshadowed by ... More >>
