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Helpless in the face of hunger: Gaza families pray for deliverance – or death
“I stood helpless in the face of my son's hunger. I cried a lot and told him to drink from our little water to satisfy his hunger,” said Zeenat, a young Palestinian woman speaking to UN News from the battered Gaza Strip.
Published on: June 01, 2025 | Source:
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Lifting of Israeli blockade ‘the only way to avert mass starvation’ in Gaza: UNRWA chief
Amid disputed reports of Israeli forces firing on civilians near a new privatised aid distribution point in southern Gaza, the head of the Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, said on Sunday that lifting the months-long aid blockade of the enclave is the only way to avoid “mass starvation”.
Published on: June 01, 2025 | Source:WHO Director-General: Member States reaffirm commitment to WHO and global health at historic World Health Assembly
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the commitment shown by the Organization’s Member States which, during nearly two weeks of meetings, adopted historic measures to make the world safer and healthier.The landmark adoptions of the first global agreement to make the world safer from future pandemics and increase in financial support to the World Health Organization were the highlights of the...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins
In Al-Jundi Al-Majhool Square – once the bustling heart of Gaza City – music now floats among the tents. The square, transformed into a sprawling displacement camp, shelters hundreds of families driven from their homes by more than 19 months of war.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:‘This is not just ice’: Glaciers support human livelihoods, UN deputy chief says
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed called for urgent action to protect water-related ecosystems in remarks to the International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Friday.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns
For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – making it easier, and more appealing, to try.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:‘Justice is long overdue’: Guterres calls for reparations for enslavement and colonialism
Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his calls for Member States and the United Nations to work towards justice and reparations for Africans and the diaspora in a speech in New York on Friday.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti
In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intensifying conflict, intercommunal violence and mass displacement are forcing hundreds of thousands of children out of school.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Gaza is the ‘hungriest place on earth’, as Israel continues stranglehold on aid
Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained by the Israeli authorities, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said on Friday.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:UN’s lifesaving programmes under threat as budget crisis hits hard
The UN is facing a deepening budget crisis that threatens lifesaving operations worldwide. From refugee aid in Mozambique to maternal health services in Afghanistan, critical programmes are on the brink of collapse unless urgent funding is secured.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:WHO outlines recommendations to protect infants against RSV – respiratory syncytial virus
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its first-ever position paper on immunization products to protect infants against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – the leading cause of acute lower respiratory infections in children globally. Every year, RSV causes about 100000 deaths and over 3.6million hospitalizations in children under the age of 5 years worldwide. About half of these deaths occur in infants...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Ukraine: Hopes for peace on life support, Security Council hears
A glimmer of hope for peace in Ukraine has been overshadowed by a devastating new wave of Russian attacks, UN officials told the Security Council on Thursday, warning of soaring civilian casualties and a worsening humanitarian crisis that could derail a diplomatic end to the war.
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:UN searches for solutions to global housing crisis
The UN’s urban development agencyestimates that an astonishing 2.8 billion people worldwide lack access to adequate housing, secure land, and basic water and sanitation services – that’s around 40 per cent of the global population.
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:UN honours peacekeepers' service and sacrifice
The United Nations honoured staff serving at its field missions through several events to mark the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Thursday.
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:‘We are the present’: Tajik climate activist urges leaders to include youth voices in dialogue
A young activist from Tajikistan is speaking up to show that her generation can be part of the solution to combat climate change.
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:Desperate hunger drives crowd to storm UN food warehouse in Gaza
Desperate hunger drove crowds of people to overrun a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday, reportedly leaving two dead and several injured in a chaotic scramble for food.
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:WHO calls for urgent action to ban flavoured tobacco and nicotine products
On World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) today launches a new publication and calls on governments to urgently ban all flavours in tobacco and nicotine products, including cigarettes, pouches, hookahs and e-cigarettes, to protect youth from addiction and disease.Flavours like menthol, bubble gum and cotton candy are masking the harshness of tobacco and nicotine products turning toxic products into...
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:WHO, Africa CDC and RKI expand implementation of a unique partnership to strengthen collaborative surveillance in Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO), Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the governments of Canada and the United Kingdom announced today the expansion of the successful Health Security Partnership to Strengthen Disease Surveillance in Africa (HSPA) to seven countries on the continent.Africa experiences more disease outbreaks than any other part of the world....
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly concludes: historic outcomes, consequential highlights
The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78), the annual meeting of World Health Organization’s (WHO) Member States, came to a close Tuesday, as health leaders lauded vast accomplishments and global solidarity.The Assembly, WHO’s highest decision-making body, convened from 19 May to 27 May, under the theme “One World for Health”. Member States considered approximately75 items and sub-items across all areas of...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Pandemics to pollution: WHO Assembly delivers landmark health decisions
The 78th World Health Assembly concluded Tuesday in Geneva, marking several major milestones in global health. Delegates adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement and approved a significant boost in core funding for the World Health Organization (WHO).
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Yemen: UN warns against Houthi-Israel escalation, calls for dialogue
The United Nations has called for restraint following another wave of escalation between Houthi rebels in Yemen and Israeli forces.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Climate change: World likely to breach 1.5°C limit in next five years
Fact: 2024 was the warmest year on record – but the heat is far from over. A new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that global temperatures will likely continue rising, with an 80 per cent chance that at least one year between now and 2029 will be even hotter.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:‘My husband died in my arms’: Russian drone attacks on Ukrainians amount to crimes against humanity, UN investigators report
Russian drone attacks against civilians in the Kherson region of Ukraine constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes, independent UN-appointed human rights investigators concluded in a new report published on Wednesday.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Sudan war exacerbates risk of cholera and malaria: UNICEF
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned of an escalating public health crisis in Sudan, as conflict and mass displacement continue to drive a surge in disease, particularly cholera and malaria.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Gaza: Top UN envoy calls on Israel to end devastating strikes, starvation of civilians
Gaza’s population is being “starved and denied the very basics,” while the region stands at a dangerous crossroads, the UN’s Middle East peace envoy warned the Security Council Wednesday, urging immediate action to halt the violence, restore aid and advance a two-State solution before time runs out.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Exponential rise in synthetic drug production and trafficking in the Golden Triangle
The Golden Triangle – the remote, jungle-covered border region where Thailand, Myanmar, and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic meet – has seen an exponential surge in the illicit manufacture and trafficking of synthetic drugs.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:UN aid teams plead for access amid reports Gazans shot collecting food
In Gaza, dozens of Palestinians have been reportedly injured and shot trying to collect aid from the new US and Israeli-backed aid distribution facility operating independently of the UN.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:‘We are women like you’: UN honours peacekeepers for work in gender empowerment
In early summer 2024, Squadron Leader Sharon Mwinsote Syme of Ghana ventured into sector North of Abyei, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan where she was deployed as a military gender advocate with the UN Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA).
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:‘My husband died in my arms’: UN probe says Russian drone strikes may be crimes against humanity
Russian drone attacks against civilians in the Kherson region of Ukraine constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes, independent UN-appointed human rights investigators concluded in a new report published on Wednesday.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 27 May 2025
Countries agree to update action plan to reduce deaths from antimicrobial resistance The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly approved a decision to update the Global action plan (GAP) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), for discussion at next year’s World Health Assembly (WHA79) in 2026.An estimated 4.71million deaths were associated with bacterial AMR as of 2021, according to the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries,...
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Gaza: UN agencies call for aid ‘surge’ as Israeli distribution plan begins
As a controversial United States and Israel-backed aid distribution plan gets underway in Gaza, the UN called on Tuesday for an “immediate surge” of its own pre-positioned supplies to help prevent starvation.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:New judge elected to the International Court of Justice
A seasoned diplomat and legal scholar from Jordan was elected on Tuesday to serve as a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ principal judicial body.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Real cost of disasters is 10 times higher than previously thought, says UN
As countries face increasingly steep bills from natural hazards, the true cost of disasters is actually 10 times higher than previously estimated, with far-reaching effects across healthcare, housing, education and employment.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Sudan conflict triggers regional health crisis, warns WHO
As the war between rival militaries in Sudan continues, the World Health Organization (WHO) has raised alarm over the escalating health emergency, driven by ongoing violence, mass displacement, collapsing health systems and poor conditions inside refugee camps.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Sanctions relief for Syria offers ‘powerful message of hope,’ says UN migration agency
The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has welcomed recent decisions by the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union to ease sanctions against Syria.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source: