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Gaza Strip: Humanitarians warn of worsening famine conditions, attacks on civilians
Famine conditions are tightening their grip on the Gaza Strip, as the latest UN humanitarian update warns of soaring malnutrition-related deaths, relentless civilian attacks, and mounting obstacles to aid access amid deepening crisis.
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:
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Once-in-a-decade push for the โlocked outโ: Global leaders set for landmark UN conference in Turkmenistan
In early August, Heads of State, ministers, investors and grassroots leaders will gather in Awaza on Turkmenistanโs Caspian coast for once-in-a-decade UN conference aiming to rewire the global system in support of 32 landlocked developing countries whose economies are often โlocked outโ of opportunity due to their lack of access to the sea.
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:In Myanmar, conflict and floods collide as UN warns of deepening crisis
As Myanmar reels from deadly floods, renewed fighting and widespread displacement, the United Nations warned on Thursday that urgent humanitarian needs are going unmet due to escalating violence and blocked access.
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:Cholera outbreak in West and Central Africa poses crisis for children
Some 80,000 children are estimated to be at high risk of cholera in West and Central Africa as the rainy season begins across the region, the UN Childrenโs Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:LIVE COVERAGE: Day 3 of high-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine
Welcome to our live coverage of the third day of high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed at advancing practical steps toward achieving a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mandated by the General Assembly meeting features plenaries, working groups and interventions from senior UN officials and Member States. UN News app users can follow here.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Violence in Somalia, cholera in Haiti, tax support for sustainable development
Ongoing violence has displaced more than 100,000 people in two regions of Somalia in the past two months, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Tsunami alert highlights worth of global early warning system
Early warning systems kicked in overnight across Pacific coastal communities after a massive earthquake in eastern Russia triggered a sea surge that reached the Japanese coastline around 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) away within about an hour, disaster relief experts said on Wednesday.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Sudan gripped by deadly crisis as hunger, disease and heat intensify
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised the alarm on Wednesday over the rising toll of hunger, disease and displacement in various conflict-ridden parts of Sudan.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:With Gaza smouldering, ministers renew push for two-State solution at UN
With Gaza in ruins and the two-State solution in jeopardy, ministers convened at the United Nations this week to jumpstart political momentum toward ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a crisis Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres warned is โat a breaking pointโ.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Gaza children starving despite Israeli โtactical pausesโ, UN says
Despite daily โtactical pausesโ declared by Israeli forces, humanitarian conditions in Gaza remain catastrophic, with children starving, aid workers overwhelmed and fuel and water supplies critically low, UN humanitarians reported on Wednesday.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Haitians in โdespairโ following abrupt suspension of US humanitarian support
People in Haiti have expressed โdespairโ following the โabrupt suspensionโ of a wide range of humanitarian services, according to the UNaid coordinationoffice,OCHA, in the Caribbean country.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Paying tribute to David Nabarro
Tribute to Dr David Nabarro
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Russian attack on Ukrainian prison kills 16: UN rights monitors
An attack on a prison in the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on Monday reportedly left 16 prisoners dead and almost 100 injured, violating international law, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) has said.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Remembering Dr. David Nabarro, deadly shipwreck off Libya, verdict in peacekeeperโs killing
UN Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres has expressed sadness over the passing of Dr. David Nabarro, who played a leading role in the Organizationโs efforts to respond to challenges such as hunger, Ebola and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:UN peacekeeping can work in a fractured world if there is political will
In an era marked by geopolitical fragmentation and rising global tensions, United Nations peace operations face unprecedented challenges, but senior officials told the Security Council on Tuesday that with renewed political will and strategic adaptation, these missions remain indispensable tools for conflict resolution and protection of civilians worldwide.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:Lured by hope, trapped by lies: Healing after being trafficked
The promise seemed simple: a job, a fresh start, a way out. Instead, Maria* stepped off a boat onto a picture-perfect Trinidadian beach with hope in her heart and into a nightmare that would shadow her for years. On theWorld Day Against Trafficking in Persons, observed on 30 July, follow the journey of a woman who escaped.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:UN peace efforts can work in a fractured world if there is political will
In an era marked by geopolitical fragmentation and rising global tensions, United Nations peace operations face unprecedented challenges, but senior officials told the Security Council on Tuesday that with renewed political will and strategic adaptation, these missions remain indispensable tools for conflict resolution and protection of civilians worldwide.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:โBy women, for womenโ: 15 years of the UN agency championing gender equality
Fariba, a young Afghan woman, had just begun a university degree in 2021 when the Talibanreturned to power and banned women and girls from secondary and higher education.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:LIVE COVERAGE: Day 2 of high-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine
Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed at advancing practical steps toward achieving a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mandated by the General Assembly, the three-day meeting features plenaries, working groups and interventions from senior UN officials and Member States. UN News app users can follow here.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:Deputy UN chief urges bold action to transform food systems at global summit in Addis Ababa
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Tuesday called on countries to double down on efforts to transform food systems, describing them as โone of the greatest solutionsโ to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:In Gaza, mounting evidence of famine and widespread starvation
โThe worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,โUN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, in a call to action amid unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-total collapse of essential services in the war-battered enclave.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:IPC Gaza Strip Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), of which WHO is a member, today issued a Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert for the Gaza Strip. The details are as noted below.Key highlightsThe Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has issued a stark warning today that theworst-case scenario of Famine is now unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Amid relentless conflict, massdisplacement, severely...
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:Global hunger declines, but rises in Africa and western Asia: UN report
An estimated 8.2 percent of the global population, or about 673 million people, experienced hunger in 2024, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:WHO urges action on hepatitis, announcing hepatitis D as carcinogenic
As we mark World Hepatitis Day, WHO calls on governments and partners to urgently accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat and reduce liver cancer deaths."Every 30 seconds, someone dies from a hepatitis-related severe liver disease or liver cancer. Yet we have the tools to stop hepatitis,โ said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. Viral hepatitis โ types A, B, C, D, and...
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:LIVE COVERAGE: High-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine
Welcome to our live coverage of the high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed at advancing practical steps toward achieving a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mandated by the General Assembly, the three-day meeting features plenaries, working groups and interventions from senior UN officials and Member States. UN News app users can follow here.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Syria: Fragile ceasefire in Sweida โlargely holdingโ amid volatility
A fragile de-escalation in Syriaโs Sweida region is โlargely holdingโ after weeks of violence displaced 175,000 people, killed hundreds and devastated critical infrastructure โ exposing deep fissures in the countryโs political transition.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:UN chief: Israeli-Palestinian conflict at โbreaking point,โ urges push for two-State solution
UN Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres on Monday warned that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is โat a breaking pointโ and headed toward a one-State reality marked by perpetual occupation and inequality, unless the international community takes urgent, irreversible steps to implement the two-State solution.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Amid starvation in Gaza, Sudan, Guterres slams hunger โas a weapon of warโ
As starvation worsens in war-torn Gaza, UN agencies repeated warnings on Monday that Israelโs decision to support a โone-week scale-upโ of aid is far from enough to reverse deadly malnutrition rates in the enclave.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:While Gaza ceasefire remains elusive, UN readies for conference around Israel-Palestine two-State solution
A world in which a sovereign State of Palestine and Israel co-exist peacefully seems a distant prospect, particularly in light of the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel and the subsequent Israeli bombardment of Gaza. A high-level UN conference opening on 28 July will, nevertheless, serve as the latest UN-backed attempt to find a way to end the conflict.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:UN condemns deadly attack on worshippers in DR Congo
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, strongly condemned an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on civilians during the night of 26 to 27 July.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Sudan: UN sounds the alarm as health and food crises worsen across the country
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is alarmed by escalating health and food crises across Sudan, notably as cholera cases continue to rise in the locality of Tawila, North Darfur state.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Cambodia-Thailand ceasefire, bloody weekend in Ukraine, stop hepatitis deaths
UN Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres has welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Cambodia and Thailand following days of deadly fighting over their mutual border.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Slight decrease in global hunger as inequalities widen, UN report reveals
An interagency group from the UN released the flagship2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report on Monday, estimating a global, yet uneven, decline in hunger since 2022.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Malnutrition rates reach alarming levels in Gaza, WHO warns
Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. The crisis remains entirely preventable. Deliberate blocking and delay of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid has cost many lives.
Published on: July 27, 2025 | Source:UN warns of โcatastrophic hungerโ in Gaza as Israel announces humanitarian pauses
United Nations agencies welcomed on Sunday Israelโs pledge to implement daily humanitarian pauses in its military operations in Gaza, aimed at easing the flow of desperately needed aid into and across the devastated enclave.
Published on: July 27, 2025 | Source: