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Real Cost Of Disasters Is 10 Times Higher Than Previously Thought, Says UN
Friday, 30 May 2025, 7:01 am | UN News
As countries face increasingly steep bills from natural hazards, the true cost of disasters is actually 10 times higher than previously estimated, with far-reaching effects across healthcare, housing, education and employment. More >>
Pandemics To Pollution: WHO Assembly Delivers Landmark Health Decisions
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 10:37 am | UN News
The 78th World Health Assembly concluded Tuesday in Geneva, marking several major milestones in global health. Delegates adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement and approved a significant boost in core funding for the World Health Organization ... More >>
Yemen: UN Warns Against Houthi-Israel Escalation, Calls For Dialogue
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 10:16 am | UN News
The United Nations has called for restraint following another wave of escalation between Houthi rebels in Yemen and Israeli forces. More >>
Real Cost Of Disasters Is 10 Times Higher Than Previously Thought, Says UN
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 9:53 am | UN News
As countries face increasingly steep bills from natural hazards, the true cost of disasters is actually 10 times higher than previously estimated, with far-reaching effects across healthcare, housing, education and employment. More >>
Sudan War Exacerbates Risk Of Cholera And Malaria: UNICEF
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 9:33 am | UN News
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned of an escalating public health crisis in Sudan, as conflict and mass displacement continue to drive a surge in disease, particularly cholera and malaria. More >>
UN Aims To Transform Urgency Into Action At Nice Ocean Conference
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 8:32 am | UN News
Countries are uniting in the French city of Nice next month to save the marine environment. More >>
Gaza: UN Agencies Call For Aid ‘Surge’ As Israeli Distribution Plan Begins
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 8:18 am | UN News
As a controversial United States and Israel-backed aid distribution plan gets underway in Gaza, the UN called on Tuesday for an “immediate surge” of its own pre-positioned supplies to help prevent starvation. More >>
UN Awards 2025 Mandela Prize To Brenda Reynolds And Kennedy Odede
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 7:32 am | UN News
An Indigenous social worker from Canada and a social entrepreneur from Kenya are the laureates of the 2025 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize, the United Nations announced on Wednesday. More >>
‘My Husband Died In My Arms’: Russian Drone Attacks On Ukrainians Amount To Crimes Against Humanity, UN Report
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 7:25 am | UN News
Russian drone attacks against civilians in the Kherson region of Ukraine constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes, independent UN human rights investigators concluded in a report published on Wednesday. More >>
‘We Are Women Like You’: UN Honours Peacekeepers For Work In Gender Empowerment
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 6:23 am | UN News
In early summer 2024, Squadron Leader Sharon Mwinsote Syme of Ghana ventured into sector North of Abyei, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan where she was deployed as a military gender advocate with the UN Interim Security Force in ... More >>
Gaza: Top UN Envoy Calls On Israel To End Devastating Strikes, Starvation Of Civilians
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 6:09 am | UN News
Gaza’s population is being “starved and denied the very basics,” while the region stands at a dangerous crossroads, the UN’s Middle East peace envoy warned the Security Council Wednesday, urging immediate action to halt the violence, restore ... More >>
UN Aid Teams Plead For Access Amid Reports Gazans Shot Collecting Food
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 6:02 am | UN News
In Gaza, dozens of Palestinians have been reportedly injured and shot trying to collect aid from the new US and Israeli-backed aid distribution facility operating independently of the UN. More >>
Sanctions Relief For Syria Offers ‘Powerful Message Of Hope,’ Says UN Migration Agency
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 5:35 am | UN News
The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has welcomed recent decisions by the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union to ease sanctions against Syria. More >>
INTERVIEW: Time’s Being Wasted On Politics Of Aid While Deaths Mount In Gaza, Warns Senior Official
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 8:30 pm | UN News
The UN already has a proven system to deliver assistance to people in Gaza and will not take part in any plan that does not uphold universally established humanitarian principles, a spokesperson for aid coordination office OCHA affirmed on Friday. More >>
New Judge Elected To The International Court Of Justice
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 11:22 am | UN News
A seasoned diplomat and legal scholar from Jordan was elected on Tuesday to serve as a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ principal judicial body. More >>
Exponential Rise In Synthetic Drug Production And Trafficking In The Golden Triangle
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 11:19 am | UN News
The Golden Triangle – the remote, jungle-covered border region where Thailand, Myanmar, and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic meet – has seen an exponential surge in the illicit manufacture and trafficking of synthetic drugs. More >>
Aid Teams Highlight Growing Anxiety In Gaza After Food Is Looted
Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 10:50 am | UN News
Long-awaited food supplies have been looted in Gaza overnight while being transported to desperate communities in the war-torn enclave, UN aid teams reported on Friday. More >>
Diplomats Prepare Ground For June Conference On Two-State Solution For Israel And Palestine
Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 10:46 am | UN News
Diplomats convened at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday to lay the groundwork for a crucial international conference in June, aimed at advancing global efforts towards achieving a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. More >>
UN Warns Of ‘Catastrophic’ Human Rights Crisis In Myanmar As Violence And Economic Collapse Deepen
Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 10:09 am | UN News
Myanmar’s spiralling human rights crisis – fuelled by relentless military violence, systemic impunity and economic collapse – has left civilians caught in the crossfire of an increasingly brutal conflict, according to a new report by the UN human rights ... More >>
Escalating Violence Drives Food Crisis Across Eastern DR Congo, Warns WFP
Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 8:25 am | UN News
As violence intensifies in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the World Food Programme (WFP) warned Friday that food insecurity is worsening both within the country and in neighbouring States, where 140,000 Congolese have fled since January. More >>
