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World News In Brief: Cholera Surges Worldwide, DR Congo Update, WHO Leads Global Health Emergency Exercise
Sunday, 6 April 2025, 12:04 pm | UN News
A global surge in cholera is threatening vulnerable people from Angola to Myanmar, fuelled by conflict, natural disasters and climate change, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. More >>
Gaza: Paramedic Still Missing After Aid Worker Killings, Palestinian Red Crescent Society Calls For Answers
Sunday, 6 April 2025, 11:57 am | UN News
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on Friday called for urgent answers over the whereabouts of a missing paramedic, coupled with a full independent investigation into the killing of 15 humanitarian workers in Gaza on 23 March. More >>
Myanmar Quake: Airstrikes Persist As UN Pushes Aid Efforts
Sunday, 6 April 2025, 11:41 am | UN News
Amid ongoing military airstrikes and growing humanitarian needs following last week’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, the UN has intensified calls for immediate, unhindered aid access to assist millions affected by the disaster. More >>
‘Every Piece Tells A Story’: Bombs To Beauty, From Gaza To Ukraine
Saturday, 5 April 2025, 9:25 am | UN News
What happens to bombs after they land? Some explode. Some don’t, leaving behind a deadly legacy of war, but now some of the remnants of conflict and devastation are being turned into wearable messages of peace. More >>
DR Congo: Armed Violence Displaces Thousands As Cholera Outbreak Worsens
Friday, 4 April 2025, 10:59 am | UN News
Ongoing violence in North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to kill, injure and displace civilians, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned. More >>
Sudan Crisis: UN Rights Chief Condemns Extrajudicial Killings In Khartoum
Friday, 4 April 2025, 10:20 am | UN News
The fight for Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, likely involved widespread summary executions of civilians following its recent recapture by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Thursday. More >>
AI’s $4.8 Trillion Future: UN Warns Of Widening Digital Divide Without Urgent Action
Friday, 4 April 2025, 10:11 am | UN News
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on course to become a $4.8 trillion global market by 2033 – roughly the size of Germany’s economy – but unless urgent action is taken, its benefits may remain in the hands of a privileged few, a new UN report ... More >>
World News In Brief: Israeli Military Escalation In Syria, Nicaragua Rights Probe, South Sudan Talks
Friday, 4 April 2025, 10:06 am | UN News
The UN Special Envoy for Syria has condemned the repeated and intensifying military escalations by Israel in the country, including airstrikes that have caused civilian casualties. More >>
Gaza: UN Rights Chief Calls For Probe Into Killings Of Medical Workers
Friday, 4 April 2025, 9:38 am | UN News
The recent killings of 15 medical personnel and humanitarian aid workers in Gaza raise further concerns over the commission of war crimes by the Israeli military, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Security Council on Thursday. More >>
Gaza Aid Worker Killings: One Humanitarian Still Missing In Mass Grave
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 11:46 am | UN News
UN humanitarians and partners on Tuesday expressed deep shock at the killing of 15 colleagues on duty in southern Gaza by Israeli forces whose remains were recovered on Sunday from a shallow grave after a week-long rescue operation, noting that one ... More >>
Guterres Calls For Greater Equality And Inclusion As World Marks Autism Awareness Day
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 11:42 am | UN News
Although people with autism are making enormous contributions to societies across the globe, they still face significant challenges. More >>
UN-Backed Forum Seeks To Boost Resilience Of World’s Least Developed Countries
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 11:34 am | UN News
Policymakers, researchers, the private sector and other stakeholders are meeting in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, over the next three days to chart a path toward sustainable development and resilience for the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs). More >>
Interview: Urgent Aid Needed As Survivors Of Myanmar Quake Struggle Amid Long-Running Crisis
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 10:05 am | UN News
As Myanmar reels from a devastating earthquake, the humanitarian situation is growing increasingly dire – entire communities have been reduced to rubble, infrastructure is shattered and tens of thousands remain in urgent need of aid. More >>
Myanmar Earthquake Tragedy ‘Compounds Already Dire Crisis’
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 8:50 am | UN News
Entire communities in central Myanmar have been devastated and the full scale of the earthquake disaster “remains unclear”, the UN’s top humanitarian coordinator in the country said on Monday. More >>
Gaza: UN Relief Chief Demands ‘Answers And Justice’ Following Killings Of First Responders
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 8:17 am | UN News
The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher on Monday called for “justice and answers” after Israeli forces killed eight Palestinian medics, six civil defence first responders and a UN staff member in an attack in southern Gaza. More >>
Tariffs: Job Protectors Or Trade Killers?
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:51 pm | UN News
The word “tariff” has been catapulted to the headlines over the last few months, as major economies impose or threaten them on other nations. But tariffs are not just a blunt weapon to be used in geopolitical brinkmanship: they can, if used effectively, ... More >>
Extreme Weather Impacts Cascading ‘From The Andes To The Amazon’
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:48 pm | UN News
Extreme weather and climate impacts had a damaging toll on Latin America and the Caribbean last year, resulting in dying glaciers, record-breaking hurricanes, debilitating drought and deadly floods, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a ... More >>
47 Million Health Workers And Advocates Call For Cleaner Air To Curb Pollution Deaths
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:47 pm | UN News
Over 50 countries, cities, & organizations pledged new commitments to tackle air pollution, protect public health, and help halve its deadly impacts by 2040 – a goal backed by a petition from 47 million health professionals, patients & advocates ... More >>
Looking Beyond GDP To Reach The Sustainable Development Goals
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:45 pm | UN News
Countries should consider looking beyond Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the key measure of economic growth to achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN policymakers have suggested. More >>
Tens Of Millions Risk Starvation As Funding Cuts Deepen Crises In DR Congo: WHO, WFP
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:43 pm | UN News
Sharply declining aid could force tens of millions across the globe who rely on food aid into extreme hunger and starvation, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday. More >>
