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UNHCR forced to make deep cuts, despite rising needs worldwide
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on Monday that it is cutting global staffing costs by around 30 per cent, following a comprehensive review of its activities, spending, staffing and structure, prompted by major funding shortfalls.
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:
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DR Congo: Human rights violations could amount to war crimes, UN experts say
In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwandan-backed rebels, Congolese troops, and allied militias have all committed human rights abuses, some possibly amounting to war crimes, the UNHigh Commissioner for Human Rights said in Geneva on Monday.
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:Guterres to launch life-saving campaign strengthening mine action worldwide
The UN Secretary-General is set to launch a global campaign to boost support for disarmament and mine action.
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Live updates for 16 June
After a weekend of massive strikes and counter-strikes between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the UN's human rights chief, Volker Türk on Monday condemned the violence and echoed wider calls for a negotiated end to the attacks. Meanwhile in Gaza, aid workers report that mobile communications networks continue to be cut in the shattered enclave. We'll be covering these developments and more across the UN system and beyond today,...
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:Brutal cuts mean brutal choices warns UN relief chief, launching ‘survival appeal’
Facing the most severe funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian aid, UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Monday announced a “hyper-prioritised” appeal for $29 billion to meet urgent global needs.
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:Spain strengthens global health leadership with increased support to WHO
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today signed a new agreement and contribution of 5.25million to support key WHO initiatives.“Spain has long been a close and steadfast partner to WHO and global health," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. "We thank Spain for its increased flexible funding of our work, in doing so helping...
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Shaping a better world at Expo 2025 in Japan
How can we build a fairer, more peaceful world while safeguarding the planet? That’s the powerful question at the heart of the United Nations Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Security Council meets in emergency session over Iran-Israel conflict, amid strikes and counterstrikes
Israel’s strikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities mark a dangerous new escalation in the Middle East, a top UN official told the Security Council during an emergency session convened on Friday.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Societies grappling with a ‘silent but growing’ prison crisis
Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect – fuelling calls for urgent reform.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist
UN agencies on Friday continue to stress they must be allowed to deliver aid in the Gaza Strip as famine looms and a telecommunications blackout threatens lifesaving operations.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:UN ocean summit in Nice closes with wave of commitments
Ships in the port of Nice sounded their fog-horns on Friday, a brassy crescendo to a rare moment of global unity as the Third UN Ocean Conference drew to a close. Moments earlier, more than 170 countries had adopted by consensus a sweeping political declaration promising urgent action to protect the ocean.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:DR Congo crisis: Aid teams appeal for support to help displaced communities left with nothing
As diplomatic efforts continue to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN development agency (UNDP) issued an appeal on Friday on behalf of people uprooted by the violence to help them rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Israel-Iran crisis: UN chief urges calm after overnight strikes
Secretary-General António Guterres condemned Israeli strikes in Iran late Thursday evening, urging ‘maximum restraint’ from Member States. The head of the UN-backed atomic watchdog also highlighted the risk of a wider conflict.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice
Behind closed doors, in a domed conference pavilion steps away from the historic port of Nice, more than 40 ministers gathered on Tuesday to tackle one of the planet’s fastest-growing environmental threats: plastic pollution.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:GAZA LIVE: UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts resolution demanding immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire
The General Assembly overwhelmingly backed a resolution on Thursday demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages and resumption of humanitarian aid to stave off famine. There were 149 votes in favour, 12 against – including Israel and the US – and 19 abstentions. App users can follow our live coveragehere.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:UN General Assembly adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution by overwhelming majority
Meeting in emergency session on Thursday in New York, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: ‘Indifference and impunity’ in Sudan, ICC judges speak out against sanctions, respiratory diseases overlooked in Europe
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of aid and lean season rapidly approaching, theUN Chief for Humanitarian Affairs once againsounded the alarm about the crisis unfolding in Sudan on Thursday.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:UN chief ‘deeply saddened’ as Air India crash claims lives of over 200 on board
A London-bound Air India jet carrying 242 people crashed moments after take-off from Ahmedabad on Thursday, reportedly killing more than 200 on board, with dozens still unaccounted for.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Yemen at breaking point as UN envoy urges action to end suffering
Yemen cannot endure more years of division, economic collapse and human suffering, the UN’s top official on the crisis told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that “time is not on our side.”
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Famine stalks two counties in South Sudan as fragile peace is threatened
Two counties in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan are sliding into famine, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned after a new update was released on Thursday from the UN-partnered food security classification system, the IPC.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:‘No Ocean Declaration without small islands’: Delegates push for inclusion as UN summit nears end
With one day remaining before the conclusion of the Third UN Ocean Conference, delegates in Nice are preparing for the adoption of the summit’s eagerly anticipated political declaration. Small island developing States, facing the direct effects of climate change and marine resource decline, are pushing to ensure their perspectives are reflected in global ocean policy.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR
With 13.5 million people displaced by over 13 years of brutal civil conflict, Syria used to represent the largest displacement crisis in the world. This is no longer the case.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Atomic watchdog says Iran not complying with nuclear safeguards
The UN-backed atomic watchdog passed a resolution on Thursday declaring that Iran is not complying with its obligations regarding nuclear non-proliferation.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Decades of memories and loss – searching for the missing in Syria
Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years including during 14 years of civil war. Now, some families are able to live in hope as the Middle Eastern country emerges from the traumatic period of dictatorship and conflict.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians
Nearly 1.3 million people have been forced to flee gang violence in Haiti and seek refuge elsewhere within the Caribbean country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:At least eight drown in Red Sea as smugglers force migrants overboard
Survivors of a people-smuggling operation in the Red Sea have described being forced off their boat far from the coast of Djibouti and left to swim for their lives.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:The world pledged to end child labour by 2025: So why are 138 million kids still working?
Twelve-year-old Tenasoa crawls to work every day at a mine in eastern Madagascar where she collects two kilos of the shiny mineral mica each day. She cannot walk because of a physical disability.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:‘Plenty of fish in the sea’? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice
At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the “catch of the day” wasn’t a seabass or a red mullet – it was a figure: 35 per cent. That’s the share of global fish stocks now being harvested unsustainably, according to a new UN report released Wednesday.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Climate emergency is a health crisis ‘that is already killing us,’ says WHO
With 2024 confirmed as the hottest year on record, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stark warning: the climate crisis is also a health crisis – and it’s already claiming lives.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Ukraine: Ongoing Russian strikes continue alarming civilian casualty trend
Civilian deaths and injuries in the first five months of 2025 were nearly 50 per cent higher than the same period last year, UN rights experts tasked with monitoring abuses in war-torn Ukraine said on Wednesday in their latestreport.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Rising hunger in Gaza highlights urgent need for ‘unfettered’ aid supplies
People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the “very limited” volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Myanmar on the ‘path to self-destruction’ if violence does not end
Nearly three months after a catastrophic earthquake struck Myanmar, the country continues to grapple with its aftermath alongside the brutal civil war which has devastated the country since the February 2021 military coup.
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:UN committed to supporting ‘free, fair and transparent election with the participation of all Iraqis’
The top UN official in Iraq reiterated his confidence in the resilience of the country’s people, and the determination of their leaders, in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday.
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:The battle to quiet the sea: Can the shipping industry turn down the volume?
The ocean has never been silent – waves crashing, seabirds calling, whales singing across vast distances. But in recent decades, a new kind of noise has taken hold: the relentless hum of ships. For many marine species, this growing wall of sound is more than a nuisance – it’s a threat to their survival.
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source: