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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanWhy is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny
A growing network of online communities known collectively as the “manosphere” is emerging as a serious threat to gender equality, as toxic digital spaces increasingly influence real-world attitudes, behaviours, and policies, the UN agency dedicated to ending gender discrimination has warned.
Published on: June 21, 2025 | Source:
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From the Global South to the stars: A new space race
Once the exclusive domain of a handful of technologically advanced countries, outer space is now within the reach of emerging nations from the Global South, as costs fall and technology becomes more widely available.
Published on: June 21, 2025 | Source:UN chief ‘gravely alarmed’ by US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the United States’ bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a “dangerous escalation” on Saturday following eight days of deadly strikes and counter strikes between Tehran and Tel Aviv.
Published on: June 21, 2025 | Source:From Syria, UN refugee chief calls for greater solidarity with displaced people
Although record numbers of people – over 122 million worldwide – have been uprooted due to war, violence and persecution, their ability to find safety and support is threatened more than ever.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:WHO warns of a health financing emergency
The world is facing a health financing emergency, according to Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou, Director for Health Financing and Economics for the World Health Organization (WHO).
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Ukraine: Security Council hears of escalating attacks, diplomatic developments
The UN Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, where intensified fighting continues, affecting new areas and prompting further displacement.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:UN Peacebuilding Commission ‘more needed than ever’ amid rising conflict
Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and other senior officials from across the world have spoken about how international support was critical to putting their countries on the path to peace.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:‘A fire no one can control’: UN warns of spiralling Iran-Israel war
The world stands on the edge of catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday, as Israel’s military campaign inside Iran intensifies and strikes on nuclear facilities threaten to trigger a catastrophe.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:For too long, ‘unbound horrors’ have unfolded in Sudan
Hostilities continue to escalate across Sudan’sNorth Darfur andKordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease
Death and suffering in Gaza are ever-present and the enclave's people now have little choice but to risk their lives to fetch aid supplies, UN agencies said on Friday.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: ‘Give peace a chance’ UN chief urges Israel and Iran
One week since the Israel-Iran conflict erupted, diplomatic efforts to end the war are ramping up in Geneva as foreign ministers from France, Germany, the UK and the EU prepare to meet their Iranian counterpart. In New York, meanwhile, the UN Security Council heard the UN Secretary-General warn ambassadors that “we are on course to chaos” if the war widens “which could ignite a fire that no one can can control.” UN...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:‘We are at a point of no return’: grave violations against children surge for third year
Last year, 41,370 grave violations against children were documented and verified by the United Nations, according to the Secretary-General's annual report on children in armed conflict, released on Thursday.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Development is ‘the first line of defence against conflict,’ Guterres tells Security Council
Of the 700 million people worldwide living in extreme poverty, 40 per cent live in conflict-affected or fragile settings and this is on track to worsen, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:World Refugee Day: telling their stories
Of the 122 million people globally displaced by persecution, violence or human rights violations, 42.7 million are refugees who have fled across borders, according to new data from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:‘We are at a point of no return’: Grave violations against children surge for third year
Last year, 41,370 grave violations against children were documented and verified by the United Nations, according to the Secretary-General's annual report on children in armed conflict, released on Thursday.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Monitoring Iran and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy– the IAEA's role explained
Just days before Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran, the UN watchdog agency monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities warned that the country was in violation of its non-proliferation commitments.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:UN warns of mounting humanitarian toll as Israel-Iran hostilities continue
As deadly missile exchanges between Israel and Iran enter a second week, the United Nations is sounding alarm over the growing toll on civilians, warning of mass displacement and regional instability.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Long after the guns fall silent, conflict-related sexual violence leaves lasting scars
Sexual violence in conflict is a tactic of war, torture and terror. It does not only devastate survivors but also tears apart families and communities. The trauma, shame and stigma are borne by victims, not perpetrators – echoing across generations.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Development is ‘the first line of defense against conflict,’ Guterres tells Security Council
Of the 700 million people worldwide living in extreme poverty, 40 per cent live in conflict-affected or fragile settings and this is on track to worsen, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Gaza: As last fuel supplies run out, aid teams warn of catastrophe
More than 100 days into Israel’s complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only “hours away” from shutting down.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Global investment plunges, hurricane season in Haiti, rising cholera and hunger in South Sudan
Global investment fell a full 11 per cent to $1.5 trillion last year – it’s a huge blow for developing nations, the UN trade agency, UNCTAD, said on Thursday.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:WHO issues first global guideline to improve pregnancy care for women with sickle cell disease
The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its first-ever global guideline on the management of sickle cell disease (SCD) during pregnancy, addressing a critical and growing health challenge that can have life-threatening consequences for both women and babies.SCD is a group of inherited blood disorders characterized by abnormally shaped red blood cells that resemble crescents or sickles. These cells can block...
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:‘Smart grid’ helps accelerate energy transition in Indonesia
Renewable energy plants are being built across Indonesia, but for their electricity to reach consumers, a modernization of the electricity grid is necessary.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:UN rights office ‘horrified’ by deadly violence at Gaza food distribution sites
As the pall of starvation hangs over Gaza, UN agencies have sounded the alarm over deadly violence at food distribution points, where over 400 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in recent weeks while trying to access desperately needed humanitarian aid.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges
Almost 4.5 million maternal, stillborn and newborn deaths were recorded in 2023. What if there was a clear path to saving 83 percent of these people? To saving 3.7 million mothers, unborn children and babies annually?
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Civilian deaths in conflict are surging, warns UN human rights office
Civilian deaths in conflict surged by 40 per cent last year, according to new data released by the UN human rights office (OHCHR) with already marginalised groups facing disproportionate levels of discrimination.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:UN relief chief calls for solidarity, with humanitarians ‘literally under attack’
With the humanitarian sector “under-funded, overstretched, and literally under attack” as crises continue in Gaza, Sudan and beyond, international support is needed more than ever, the UN’s top aid official said on Wednesday in Geneva.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Power of football inspires team effort towards development goals
The power of football to inspire fans to take positive action for a healthier planet and a fairer society is taking centre stage at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan – a world fair focused on building a sustainable global future.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Guterres renews call for Israel-Iran ceasefire
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday he remains “profoundly alarmed” by the ongoing military escalation between Israel and Iran, as the sides continued to trade airstrikes.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Ahead of UN summit, countries finalise landmark ‘Compromiso de Sevilla’
UN Member States have reached agreement on the outcome document for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, to be formally adopted at an upcoming summit in Sevilla, Spain – though without the participation of the United States, which withdrew from the negotiations and announced it will not attend the conference.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Human Rights Council hears alarming updates on executions in Iran and global civic space crackdown
On the third day of the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the spotlight turned to reports on rising executions in Iran and the increasing repression of civic space around the world amid a wave of elections.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Iran-Israel crisis: UN rights office appeals for urgent de-escalation
As the Iran-Israel crisis continued into a sixth day on Wednesday, the UN deputy human rights chief Nada Al-Nashif called for urgent talks to end the ongoing missile attacks between Tehran and Tel Aviv.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Afghan women face near total social, economic and political exclusion
In the past decade, the UN has bemoaned the chronically low level of participation by Afghan women and girls in decision-making bodies and in secondary and higher education.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:More Gazans killed trying to get food, healthcare near to ‘full disaster’
Gaza’s health system is at breaking point, overwhelmed time and again by scores of people killed or injured near aid distribution sites, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:‘Syria simply cannot withstand another wave of instability,’ Security Council hears
A senior UN official has warned against the impact of regional escalation on Syria as the country continues on the path to political transition following the overthrow of the Assad regime last December and nearly 14 years of devastating civil war.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source: