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Kosovoโs inclusive and peaceful election marks progress, but challenges remain
Kosovoโs recent parliamentary election โ conducted peacefully and inclusively โ marked a significant step in its democratic development, the UNโs top envoy said on Tuesday, noting gains in womenโs representation.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:
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Ukraine crisis: โEven wars have rules,โ UN relief chief tells Security Council
Nearly 13 million people in Ukraine urgently need humanitarian aid as displacement, psychological trauma and the destruction of essential services continues to take a devastating toll, the UN relief chief warned on Tuesday.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Dangers grow for Myanmar quake survivors, health system 'overwhelmed'
In earthquake-shattered central Myanmar, people are sleeping in the streets in fear of buildings collapsing, facing early monsoon rains and the risk of waterborne diseases, the UN warned on Tuesday.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Nobody wins trade wars Guterres warns, WFP alert over US funding cuts, โmodern slaveryโ must be eradicated says Yang
The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday warned that when it comes to trade wars, โnobody winsโ and โeverybody tends to lose.โ
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:DR Congo crisis: 41,700 refugees have fled violence to Uganda
Some 41,000 refugees have crossed from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into Uganda since January, many of them having witnessed killings, โsexual violence and other traumatic experience during their flight,โ said the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Gaza: Guterres calls on Israel to ensure life-saving aid reaches civilians
With no aid allowed into Gaza for more than a month, the UN Secretary-General appealed on Tuesday for guaranteed humanitarian access to the enclave.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza
With the tightened Israeli blockade on Gaza now in its second month, we appeal to world leaders to act โ firmly, urgently and decisively โ to ensure the basic principles of international humanitarian law are upheld.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:UN reflects on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
The UN Secretary-General called on Monday for commitment to build a world of justice and dignity in honour of the victims and survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:With aid blockade into its second month, misery deepens for Gazans
Amid the ongoing Israeli aid blockade and bombardment of Gaza, aid teams warned on Monday that civilians trapped there face multiple daily challenges as relief supplies run critically low.
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Ukraine: Mine contamination is lethal legacy of Russiaโs invasion
An estimated 100 million people in more than 60 countries and territories live under the threat of landmines and explosive ordnance โ with war-torn Ukraine now the most heavily contaminated country in the world โ the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said on Monday.
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Aid data critical to crisis response threatened by funding cuts
The gathering of data which is essential for an effective response during a humanitarian crisis - and can help save lives โ is under increasing threat due to global funding cuts, according to the UNโs humanitarian coordination office, OCHA.
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:UN peacekeeping challenged as conflicts and ceasefires grow more complex
As ceasefires grow more fragile and conflicts more unpredictable, UN peacekeeping is having to adapt faster amid rising political tensions, disinformation and confusion over mandates.
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Syria transition update, healthcare as a human right, more than 2,000 killed and injured in Haiti this year
UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, issued a statement on Monday following his latest โextensive discussionsโ with leader of the caretaker administration in Damascus, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Myanmar quake: โI constantly worry โ what if another earthquake happens?โ
Ten days after the catastrophic quake which struck Myanmar, children remain the most vulnerable โ losing their homes, their schools, and in many cases, their families.
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Aid cuts threaten to roll back progress in ending maternal mortality
One woman continues to die during pregnancy and childbirth every two minutes on average worldwide โ that's 712 each and every day.
Published on: April 06, 2025 | Source:One preventable death every 7 seconds during pregnancy or childbirth
MondayโsWorld Health Day highlights a critical issue for global health: the particular vulnerabilities faced by women and girls.
Published on: April 06, 2025 | Source:World Health Day: Focusing on womenโs physical and mental health around the world
MondayโsWorld Health Day highlights a critical issue for global health: the particular vulnerabilities faced by women and girls.
Published on: April 06, 2025 | Source:UN rights chief urges probe into Russian attack that killed nine children in Ukraine
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Sunday for an investigation into the Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih which reportedly killed 18 people, including nine children.
Published on: April 06, 2025 | Source:UN deplores deadly attack on city in central Ukraine
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine has strongly condemned a missile strike in Kryvyi Rih on Friday which killed more than a dozen people, including at least nine children, and left several others injured.
Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source:AIโs โOppenheimer momentโ: Why new thinking is needed on disarmament
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) race needs to slow down and IT firms should instead be focusing on the bigger picture to ensure that the technology is not misused on the battlefield, UN disarmament experts and leaders of โbig techโ companies have insisted.
Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source:More than one million children in Gaza deprived of aid for over a month: UNICEF
The blockade of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is having dire consequences for more than a million children, the UN Childrenโs Fund (UNICEF) said on Saturday.
Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source:Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn
Women today are more likely than ever to survive pregnancy and childbirth according to a major new report released today, but United Nations (UN) agencies highlight the threat of major backsliding as unprecedented aid cuts take effect around the world.Released on World Health Day, the UN report, Trends in maternal mortality, shows a 40% global decline in maternal deaths between 2000 and 2023 โ largely due to improved...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:UN rolls out key initiative to combat antisemitism
Amid rising concerns over antisemitism worldwide, the UN on Friday announced the roll out of a major action plan to combat the scourge โ aimed at enhancing monitoring and response across the whole UN system.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Cholera surges worldwide, DR Congo update, WHO leads global health emergency exercise
A global surge in cholera is threatening vulnerable people from Angola to Myanmar, fuelled by conflict, natural disasters and climate change, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:UN rights office calls for end to Israel's โillegal presenceโ in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Amid reports of escalating settler violence in the West Bank, the UN rights office, OHCHR, briefed the Palestinian rights committee at UN Headquarters in New York, which also featured a screening of the Oscar winning documentary No Other Land.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Sudan: Suffering continues amid massive destruction across Khartoum
The people of Sudan are trapped in siege-like conditions โwith no escape, no hope, and often forced to face unspeakable abuse,โ a senior official with the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday in Geneva.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Myanmar quake: Airstrikes persist as UN pushes aid efforts
Amid ongoing military airstrikes and growing humanitarian needs following last weekโs 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, the UN has intensified calls for immediate, unhindered aid access to assist millions affected by the disaster.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:โSafe futures start hereโ: UN calls for global action to eliminate mine threat
More than 100 million people worldwide are at risk from landmines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres said on Friday, in his message for theInternational Day for Mine Awareness.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Gaza: Paramedic still missing after aid worker killings, Palestinian Red Crescent Society calls for answers
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on Friday called for urgent answers over the whereabouts of a missing paramedic, coupled with a full independent investigation into the killing of 15 humanitarian workers in Gaza on 23 March.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:WHO brings countries together to test collective pandemic response
Over the past two days, WHO convened more than 15 countries and over 20 regional health agencies, health emergency networks and other partners to test, for the first time, a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies.The two-day simulation, Exercise Polaris, tested WHOโs Global Health Emergency Corps (GHEC), a framework designed to strengthen countriesโ emergency workforce, coordinate the deployment of...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Myanmar: UN chief calls for urgent access as quake toll mounts
The UN chief on Thursday called for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Myanmar, where last weekโs devastating earthquakes claimed over 3,000 lives and left millions in urgent need of aid.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Sudan crisis: UN rights chief condemns extrajudicial killings in Khartoum
The fight for Sudanโs capital, Khartoum, likely involved widespread summary executions of civilians following its recent recapture by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), UN human rights chief Volker Tรผrksaidon Thursday.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:UN envoy urges international support for West Africa and the Sahel
In a briefing to the Security Council on Thursday, the UN Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel painted a mixed picture of the region, which is facing a growing terrorist threat but also political progress and encouraging initiatives.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:UN rights chief warns of increasing risk of atrocity crimes in Gaza
The recent killings of 15 medical personnel and humanitarian aid workers in Gaza raise further concerns over the commission of war crimes by the Israeli military, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Security Council on Thursday.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:AIโs $4.8 trillion future: UN warns of widening digital divide without urgent action
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on course to become a $4.8 trillion global market by 2033 โ roughly the size of Germanyโs economy โ but unless urgent action is taken, its benefits may remain in the hands of a privileged few, a new UN report warns.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source: