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World News In Brief: Global Growth Slows, Deadly Ukraine Attacks, Haiti Hurricane Hunger Risk, Legal Migration-Refugees
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 7:35 am | UN News
Global economic growth is expected to decline this year due to increased trade barriers and policy uncertainty, the World Bank said in a report published on Tuesday. More >>
Global Action Needed As Progress Stalls On Disability-Inclusive Development Goals
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 7:21 am | UN News
Nearly all the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for persons with disabilities are off track, the UN deputy chief said on Tuesday, as people from around the world gathered for the largest annual meeting on disability-related issues. More >>
UN Committed To Supporting ‘Free, Fair And Transparent Election With The Participation Of All Iraqis’
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 7:17 am | UN News
The top UN official in Iraq reiterated his confidence in the resilience of the country’s people, and the determination of their leaders, in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday. More >>
Israeli Attacks On Gaza Schools Could Be Crimes Against Humanity: UN Probe
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 7:11 am | UN News
The Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, a UN investigative body said on Tuesday, as humanitarian agencies warned of continued mass suffering ... More >>
The World Pledged To End Child Labour By 2025: So Why Are 138 Million Kids Still Working?
Friday, 13 June 2025, 7:47 pm | UN News
Twelve-year-old Tenasoa crawls to work every day at a mine in eastern Madagascar where she collects two kilos of the shiny mineral mica each day. She cannot walk because of a physical disability. More >>
‘Plenty Of Fish In The Sea’? Not Anymore, Say UN Experts In Nice
Friday, 13 June 2025, 7:40 pm | UN News
At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the “catch of the day” wasn’t a seabass or a red mullet – it was a figure: 35 per cent. That’s the share of global fish stocks now being harvested unsustainably, according to a new UN report released Wednesday. More >>
Decades Of Memories And Loss – Searching For The Missing In Syria
Friday, 13 June 2025, 6:27 pm | UN News
Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years including during 14 years of civil war. Now, some families are able to live in hope as the Middle Eastern country emerges from the traumatic period of dictatorship and conflict. More >>
Famine Stalks Two Counties In South Sudan As Fragile Peace Is Threatened
Friday, 13 June 2025, 6:17 pm | UN News
Two counties in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan are sliding into famine, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in a new report released Thursday. More >>
UN Chief ‘Deeply Saddened’ As Air India Crash Claims Lives Of Over 200 On Board
Friday, 13 June 2025, 4:58 pm | UN News
A London-bound Air India jet carrying 242 people crashed moments after take-off from Ahmedabad on Thursday, reportedly killing more than 200 on board, with dozens still unaccounted for. More >>
UN General Assembly Adopts Gaza Ceasefire Resolution By Overwhelming Majority
Friday, 13 June 2025, 4:33 pm | UN News
Meeting in emergency session on Thursday in New York, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza. More >>
Gang Violence Displaces A Record 1.3 Million Haitians
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 9:42 am | UN News
Nearly 1.3 million people have been forced to flee gang violence in Haiti and seek refuge elsewhere within the Caribbean country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday. More >>
Rising Hunger In Gaza Highlights Urgent Need For ‘Unfettered’ Aid Supplies
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 6:37 am | UN News
People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the “very limited” volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday. More >>
Ongoing Russian Strikes Continue Alarming Civilian Casualty Trend
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 6:33 am | UN News
Civilian deaths and injuries in the first five months of 2025 were nearly 50 per cent higher than the same period last year, UN rights experts tasked with monitoring abuses in war-torn Ukraine said on Wednesday in their latest report. More >>
Gaza: Search For Food Puts Lives On The Line
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 8:07 am | UN News
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached “unprecedented levels of despair,” the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites. More >>
Lack Of Cooperation From Iran Hampers Nuclear Checks, Says Atomic Energy Watchdog
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 7:02 am | UN News
The head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog has raised fresh concerns over Iran’s failure to fully cooperate with inspections, warning that this is preventing independent verification of its nuclear activities. More >>
Guterres Calls For An End To Ocean ‘Plunder’ As UN Summit Opens In France
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 5:43 am | UN News
With the Mediterranean glittering in the background, UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the Third United Nations Ocean Conference on Monday, delivering a blunt indictment of humanity’s fractured relationship with the sea. More >>
Kenya: UN Expert Urges Immediate Halt To Land Demarcation Violating Ogiek Rights And African Court Judgments
Sunday, 8 June 2025, 10:39 am | UN News
Despite the AfCHPR’s 2017 and 2022 judgments affirming the Ogiek’s ownership of their ancestral landsand requiring their restitution, the Kenyan Government has yet to take any actions to return Ogiek lands. More >>
USA: UN Expert Warns Of Interference In Legal And Judicial System
Sunday, 8 June 2025, 10:23 am | UN News
Executive officials have made public statements that characterise legal professionals as adversaries and threats, and the President has issued executive orders purporting to ban certain law firms from entering government buildings and obtaining government ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Seif Magango On Deadly Drone Strikes In North Darfur, Sudan
Sunday, 8 June 2025, 10:15 am | UN News
Another UAV strike, reportedly attributed to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) earlier this week, struck a busy market in Al Koma, killing at least 15 civilians and injuring dozens more. More >>
United States, Ukraine Among New Members Elected To UN Economic And Social Council
Sunday, 8 June 2025, 10:07 am | UN News
The General Assembly on Wednesday elected a new slate of members to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the principal body responsible for coordinating the Organization’s work on sustainable development and economic issues. More >>
