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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 >>
DR Congo: Conflict’s Survivors Have Been Through Hell, Says UN Aid Chief
Friday, 27 June 2025, 8:05 am | UN News
The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UN’s top aid official said on Thursday. More >>
Eighty Years On, UN Charter Marked By Reflection, Resolve – And A Run
Friday, 27 June 2025, 7:08 am | UN News
It wasn’t an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers – from Times Square to East River – following a route that traced the shape of “UN@80”. More >>
UN Rights Office Sounds The Alarm Over Forced Displacement In The West Bank
Friday, 27 June 2025, 7:04 am | UN News
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, has reported. More >>
UN Calls For Restraint After Deadly Kenya Protests
Friday, 27 June 2025, 7:01 am | UN News
The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday. More >>
Iran: Return To Inspections Top Priority For UN Nuclear Agency
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 5:26 pm | UN News
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that his “number one priority” is for its inspectors to return to Iran’s nuclear sites to evaluate damage caused by recent bombing and to verify stockpiles of highly ... More >>
‘Fuel For Gaza Is A Matter Of Life And Death,’ UN Warns
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 5:21 pm | UN News
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday. More >>
UN Rights Mission Condemns Civilian Toll In Deadly Missile Strikes On Ukraine
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 9:18 am | UN News
Dozens of civilians – including children and school staff – were killed or wounded in Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities this week, in what UN human rights monitors described as a “foreseeable” tragedy caused by strikes on populated ... More >>
