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UPDATING LIVE: Guterres issues hard-hitting call for climate action
Welcome to our live coverage of one of the most important speeches…
At World Health Assembly, countries agree on efforts to boost pandemic preparedness
Member countries of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), on the final…
Amid ongoing Israeli incursions into Gaza, aid facilities shut ‘one after another’
“Humanitarian facilities in Rafah are forced to close one after another…The flow…
Russian attack on Kharkiv shopping centre ‘utterly unacceptable’, says senior UN official
“I am appalled and shocked by the terrifying news arriving from Kharkiv”,…
Gaza: Nearly 800,000 now displaced from Rafah
“Once again, nearly half of the population of Rafah or 800,000 people…
First Person: Women in Madagascar too ashamed to seek help giving birth
The predominantly rural region of Androy has been beset by a series…
From Desperation to Determination: Indonesian Trafficking Survivors Demand Justice
Rokaya needed time to recover after illness forced her to quit as…
At Rafah border crossing to Gaza, UN’s Guterres calls for immediate ceasefire
In a tradition that started when he served as the UN High…
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in DR Congo
The incident occurred in the vicinity of Sake, just 20 kilometers from…
UN chief urges ‘genuine, credible’ political solution in Syria, as conflict approaches thirteenth anniversary
March marks the thirteenth anniversary of the conflict in Syria, with systematic…
Gaza: ‘Babies slowly perishing under the world’s gaze,’ UNICEF warns
“The child deaths we feared are here,” Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director…
What is the UN Environment Assembly and why does it matter?
Set up as a sort of ‘world parliament on the environment’, UNEA…
A lullaby for children sleeping under bombs in Gaza
“I endured the artillery’s roar, the fire in the nursery, yet I…
Youth-led ‘emergency rooms’ shine rays of hope in war-torn Sudan
Teams of volunteer medical staff, engineers and other emergency experts across the…
Gaza: Rafah a ‘pressure cooker of despair’ as exodus south continues
The warning from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, comes nearly four…
From The Field: Story of an aid worker trying to survive in Gaza
Many displaced people are living in tents in Tal Al-Sultan neighbourhood, in…
UN chief urges countries to reverse UNRWA funding suspension
In a statement on Sunday, the UN chief said that the Organization…
Remembering Holocaust victims, Guterres urges a stand against division
Observing Saturday’s International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of…
How a piece of the Moon landed at UN Headquarters
Displayed for all visitors to see, the tiny charcoal coloured block of…