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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 >>
Haiti Reaches ‘Yet Another Crisis Point’ As Gangs Tighten Their Grip
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:41 pm | UN News
The UN human rights chief sounded the alarm on Friday over the rapidly deteriorating situation in Haiti, calling it a “catastrophe” fuelled by gang violence, widespread impunity and a political process that is hanging by a thread. More >>
Gaza: Acts Of War Bear Hallmarks Of Atrocity Crimes, Warn UN Humanitarians
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:40 pm | UN News
Lifesaving supplies in Gaza continue to run dangerously low, nearly four weeks into the total aid blockade and deadly bombardment of the enclave by Israel, UN humanitarians said on Friday. More >>
Armed Groups Install ‘Parallel Administration’ In DR Congo, Security Council Hears
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:39 pm | UN News
Armed groups affiliated with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have continued to expand their control in North and South Kivu – setting their sights on more territorial gains. More >>
Myanmar Earthquake: Search And Rescue Efforts Continue In Race Against Time
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:02 pm | UN News
The human toll of the earthquake which devastated central Myanmar continues to rise, UN humanitarians warned on Sunday, putting more pressure on nearly 20 million people who were already in need of aid. More >>
UN Chief Strongly Condemns Killing Of Kenyan Peacekeeper In Central African Republic
Sunday, 30 March 2025, 8:51 pm | UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Saturday strongly condemned an attack on peacekeepers serving with UN mission MINUSCA in the Central African Republic which left one Kenyan ‘blue helmet’ dead. More >>
Myanmar Quake: More Than 1,600 Reported Killed, As UN Aid Operation Supports Rescue Efforts
Sunday, 30 March 2025, 8:49 pm | UN News
Latest news reports indicate that over 1,600 have been killed in Myanmar with thousands injured following two powerful earthquakes on Friday which have left hundreds trapped under rubble. More >>
UN Teams Ramp Up Response To Deadly Quake In Myanmar And Thailand
Saturday, 29 March 2025, 5:26 am | UN News
Amid reports of hundreds dead or missing following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in central Myanmar, UN teams in the region are “responding fast”, said UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Friday. More >>
Sudan: Rights Chief Deplores Deadly Army Strikes On North Darfur Market
Friday, 28 March 2025, 12:08 pm | UN News
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has again called for greater protection of civilians in war-torn Sudan following deadly army airstrikes in North Darfur earlier this week. More >>
Biological Weapons ‘must Not Only Be Unthinkable But Also Impossible’
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:48 am | UN News
The world came together 50 years ago to ban biological weapons and in today’s volatile geopolitical climate we can ill-afford to let this moral safeguard “erode”, the UN’s High Representative for Disarmament Affairs said on Wednesday. More >>
Pakistan: UN Experts Demand Release Of Baloch Human Rights Defenders, And An End To Crackdown On Peaceful Protest
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:44 am | UN News
The experts expressed concern about an escalating series of actions by the Pakistan police against the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a network advocating for the rights of the minority Baloch community. More >>
Comment By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk On Sudanese Armed Forces Airstrikes In Tora, North Darfur
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:41 am | UN News
UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk urges both parties to take all measures, as required by law, to avoid harming civilians and attacking civilian objects. Indiscriminate attacks and attacks against civilians, and civilian objects, are unacceptable ... More >>
UN Experts Urge Immediate Action To Protect Children Against Trafficking For Recruitment And Use In Hostilities In DRC
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:37 am | UN News
Reports from health facilities indicate a rise in rape cases, with children accounting for 30 per cent of those treated. Humanitarian agencies have identified more than 1,100 unaccompanied and separated children in North and South Kivu. More >>
Belarus: Alarming Ill-Treatment Of Women Prisoners And Life-Threatening Condition Of Viktoria Kulsha, Say UN Experts
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:31 am | UN News
Kulsha is currently being held in Zarechye Correctional Colony No. 24 and has reportedly suffered a serious deterioration in her physical and mental health. However, she has been denied adequate medical and psychological care and continues to be subjected ... More >>
Nigeria Must Urgently Halt Demolitions Of Waterfront Communities In Lagos
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:47 am | UN News
Demolitions must never lead to homelessness of the evicted persons, who should have access to adequate alternative housing, resettlement and compensation for lost property. More >>
DR Congo: Record Numbers Face Acute Or Emergency Hunger
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:42 am | UN News
A record 27.7 million people are in the grip of acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid ongoing conflict linked to massive displacement and rising food prices, global food security experts warned on Thursday. More >>
Fast Fashion Fuelling Global Waste Crisis, UN Chief Warns
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:31 am | UN News
Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of clothing either incinerated or sent to landfill every second, the UN chief warned on Thursday. More >>
