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UN Honours Service And Sacrifice Of Its Peacekeepers
Friday, 30 May 2025, 7:06 am | UN News
The United Nations is honouring staff serving at its field missions through several events to mark the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Thursday. More >>
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 >>
