UN environment agency calls for urgent action on ‘triple planetary crisis’
“Last year brought both successes and disappointments in global efforts to tackle the triple planetary crisis,” said UNEP…
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Gaza: Acts of war bear hallmarks of atrocity crimes, warn UN humanitarians
According to local health authorities in Gaza, 830 people were killed between 18-23 March, including 174 women and…
Guterres urges Caribbean leaders to keep pushing for peace, climate action
Mr. Guterres was speaking during the opening of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government Meeting in the…
Gaza: UN relief chief demands ‘answers and justice’ following killings of first responders
The clearly identified humanitarian workers from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Civil Defence and the UN Palestine…
Farmers must be at the heart of biodiversity action
Over 150 countries will be meeting from 25 to 27 February to advance biodiversity finance, accountability and the…
Lebanon: UN expresses deep concern over latest Israeli airstrikes, in call for restraint
Tuesday morning’s strike reportedly targeted a Hezbollah official who Israel accused of aiding Hamas in planning an imminent…
Somalia faces escalating crisis amid drought, conflict and price hikes
New food security assessments indicate that 4.4 million people – nearly a quarter of the population – could…
Gaza aid worker killings: One humanitarian still missing in mass grave
“This is a huge blow to us…These people were shot,” said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN aid…
Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature
Delegates met in Rome this week for the resumption of the UN Biodiversity Conference to hammer out an…
UN condemns killing of 1,000 people in Gaza since ceasefire collapse
He condemned the reported killing of more than a thousand people, including women and children, since the collapse…
Oceans of opportunity squeezed dry by unsustainable use
In the run-up to the UN Ocean Conference 2025 in June, the UN trade and development agency, UNCTAD,…
UN rights chief warns of increasing risk of atrocity crimes in Gaza
Ambassadors met for an emergency session to discuss the escalation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Rights chief Volker…
Climate change: La Niña fades, as global heat keeps rising
La Niña, a natural climate phenomenon, results in cooler Pacific Ocean temperatures and influences weather conditions worldwide. The…
Gaza: Paramedic still missing after aid worker killings, Palestinian Red Crescent Society calls for answers
Last Sunday, a joint PRCS and UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) mission uncovered a shallow grave in Rafah.…
Conflict, hunger, poverty impede children’s early development: Türk
During a discussion on early childhood development, the High Commissioner for Human Rights underscored that 80 per cent…
UN rights office calls for end to Israel’s ‘illegal presence’ in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
The Palestinian co-director of the documentary, Basel Adra, delivered remarks to the UN Committee on the Exercise of…
Climate change: Paris Agreement goals still within reach, says UN chief
The latest State of the Global Climate report confirms 2024 as the hottest year since records began 175…
More than one million children in Gaza deprived of aid for over a month: UNICEF
No aid has been allowed into Gaza since 2 March, representing the longest period of aid blockage since…
End of eternal ice: Many glaciers will not survive this century, climate scientists say
Together with ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers lock up about 70 per cent of the world’s…
With aid blockade into its second month, misery deepens for Gazans
In a joint statement, the heads of the UN’s aid agencies warned that “we are witnessing acts of…