From Newsgroup: rocksolid.feeds.news

The worldrCOs oceans are dying. Can a UN summit in Nice turn the tide? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164026
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
As coral reefs bleach, fish stocks collapse, and sea temperatures break records, world leaders are heading to the French Riviera rCo not for leisure, but for one of the most urgent diplomatic gatherings of the year.
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Top UN advocate sounds alarm over sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164061
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Mo|>se. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164056
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto rCo blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: US vetoes new resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire, unconditional release of hostages
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164036
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United States has vetoed a new draft resolution on Gaza, standing as the lone vote against the text which called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas and others and the immediate lifting of all aid restrictions. Follow live coverage from our Meetings Coverage Section and UN News app users can follow here.
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World Environment Day: UN sounds alarm on plastic pollution crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164046
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Every year, 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced worldwide, according to the UN. Half of this plastic is designed to be used only once, and only 10 per cent is recycled.  
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United States, Ukraine among new members elected to UN Economic and Social Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164016
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly on Wednesday elected a new slate of members to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the principal body responsible for coordinating the OrganizationrCOs work on sustainable development and economic issues.
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rCyOur worst held fears are being confirmedrCO: Dozens of bodies discovered in Libya mass graves
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164021
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk. 
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Gaza: UN relief chief welcomes growing support for aid teams to resume vital work
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164011
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Amid reports of yet another deadly attack on a school in Gaza on Wednesday, the UNrCOs top aid official Tom Fletcher welcomed growing international calls for lifesaving aid work by established agencies to resume in the war-torn enclave.
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Haiti: WFP concerned over humanitarian situation as hurricane season begins https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164001
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over HaitirCOs humanitarian situation. 
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World News in Brief: Aid for Syria, children under attack in Mozambique, rights-based climate action
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163996
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly 16 million people in Syria need urgent humanitarian health support, the UN warned on Tuesday, as aid deliveries continue amid escalating needs, deadly explosive hazards and a severe funding shortfall.
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Five humanitarians killed in rCyhorrendousrCO attack on aid convoy in Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163991
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
An aid convoy carrying life-saving assistance for the famine-affected area of North Darfur, Sudan, was attacked on Monday night, killing five humanitarian workers, injuring many more and damaging critical humanitarian supplies.  
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As displacement surges in South Sudan, regional humanitarian crisis deepens https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163981
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since a sharp escalation in fighting in South Sudan in late February, 165,000 people have fled their homes, seeking safety either within the country or across borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. 
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Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163976
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in their homeland, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an alert on Tuesday.
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Five countries elected to serve on UN Security Council https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163971
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia were elected on Tuesday to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, with two-year terms beginning in January 2026.
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Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163966
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday rCLtrying to access paltry amounts of foodrCY around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel.
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World News in Brief: Guterres condemns antisemitic attacks, ILO to debate pros and cons of working online, Sudan, Ukraine updates
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163961
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General on Monday reinforced his stand against all acts of antisemitism following the horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, at the weekend and vandalism in France targeting Jewish landmarks.
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UN calls for rCyimmediate and unconditionalrCO release of aid workers arbitrarily detained in Yemen
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163956
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
As June marks one year since the arbitrary detention of dozens of personnel from the UN, NGOs, civil society organizations and diplomatic missions by the Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen, the UN Secretary-General has reiterated his call for their release, urging they be freed rCLimmediately and unconditionally.rCY
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Deadly flooding in Nigeria displaces thousands https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163951
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Flash flooding in western Nigeria at the weekend has caused devastation around the town of Mokwa in Niger state, leaving more than 150 dead and 3,000 people displaced rCo more than half of whom are children aged 12 and under rCo the UN said on Monday.
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GermanyrCOs Annalena Baerbock elected President of the 80th General Assembly https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163936
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Former German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock was elected President of the General AssemblyrCOs 80th session on Monday. Her appointment comes as the regional group that includes Western Europe takes its turn at the helm of the world body.
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Gaza: Guterres urges probe into killings at food distribution sites https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163926
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has condemned the reported killing and injury of Palestinians seeking food aid in Gaza on Sunday, calling for an investigation into the matter.
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Frontline Ukrainian families face perilous task of farming mined fields https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163921
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
As Ukrainian and Russian delegations meet for a second round of preliminary peace talks in Turk|>ye on Monday, rural communities faced their own challenge: finding something to eat.
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Lifting of Israeli blockade rCythe only way to avert mass starvationrCO in Gaza: UNRWA chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163916
June 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCLmass starvationrCY.
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Helpless in the face of hunger: Gaza families pray for deliverance rCo or death https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163911
June 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
rCLI 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,rCY said Zeenat, a young Palestinian woman speaking to UN News from the battered Gaza Strip.
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As AI evolves, pressure mounts to regulate rCykiller robotsrCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163891
June 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
A world in which algorithms determine the fate of soldiers and civilians alike is no longer hypothetical. AI-driven drones are reshaping warfare, raising deep ethical questions about autonomy in combat. As international policymakers scramble to set ground rules, the race is on to rein in this rapidly-evolving technology.
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rCyThis is not just icerCO: Glaciers support human livelihoods, UN deputy chief says
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/05/1163896
May 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed called for urgent action to protect water-related ecosystems in remarks to the International Conference on GlaciersrCO Preservation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Friday.
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UNrCOs lifesaving programmes under threat as budget crisis hits hard https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/05/1163901
May 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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rCyJustice is long overduerCO: Guterres calls for reparations for enslavement and colonialism
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/05/1163886
May 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Secretary-General Ant||nio 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.
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World News in Brief: Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/05/1163881
May 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Songs of hope rise from GazarCOs ruins https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/05/1163876
May 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
In Al-Jundi Al-Majhool Square rCo once the bustling heart of Gaza City rCo 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.
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Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/05/1163871
May 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product rCo making it easier, and more appealing, to try.
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Humans can't survive without a healthy Ocean: UN envoy https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163771
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Ocean is in deep crisis. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread pollution are contributing to a catastrophic decline in biodiversity: over half of marine species are at risk of extinction this century.
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rCyIt is an elephantrCO: UkrainerCOs unexploded mine problem https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164121
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
In Ukraine, overnight attacks continued into Thursday morning, resulting in 45 casualties and significant damage to civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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UN hails new era of cooperation over SyriarCOs chemical weapons stockpile rCo but concerns persist
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164126
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top disarmament official has welcomed signs of increased cooperation from SyriarCOs interim authorities in efforts to eliminate the countryrCOs chemical weapons once and for all, as preparations move forward for a third round of inspections by international experts.
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AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164111
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, but progress remains precarious, with the disease still claiming one life every minute. The impact of funding cuts is severe, causing widespread disruption to HIV services and threatening hard-won gains. 
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World News in Brief: WomenrCOs health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164116
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA said on Thursday. 
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From summits to street art to schools: HererCOs how werCOre marking World Environment Day
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164101
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
5 June marks the 52nd World Environment Day, led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and hosted by Jeju, South Korea, under the theme #BeatPlasticPollution. 
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UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution rCyaliverCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164091
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that there is no alternative.
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Number of aid workers killed in Gaza conflict, highest in UN history: Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164086
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations paid tribute on Thursday to the 168 staff members who lost their lives in 2024. They include 126 personnel killed in Gaza, all but one of whom served with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA. 
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In Gaza, daily food intake has fallen well below rCysurvivalrCO level https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164076
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians rCLvulnerable to starvationrCY, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
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The worldrCOs oceans are dying. Can a UN summit in Nice turn the tide? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164026
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
As coral reefs bleach, fish stocks collapse, and sea temperatures break records, world leaders are heading to the French Riviera rCo not for leisure, but for one of the most urgent diplomatic gatherings of the year.
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Top UN advocate sounds alarm over sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164061
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Mo|>se. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164056
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto rCo blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: US vetoes new resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire, unconditional release of hostages
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164036
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United States has vetoed a new draft resolution on Gaza, standing as the lone vote against the text which called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas and others and the immediate lifting of all aid restrictions. Follow live coverage from our Meetings Coverage Section and UN News app users can follow here.
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World Environment Day: UN sounds alarm on plastic pollution crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164046
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Every year, 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced worldwide, according to the UN. Half of this plastic is designed to be used only once, and only 10 per cent is recycled.  
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United States, Ukraine among new members elected to UN Economic and Social Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164016
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly on Wednesday elected a new slate of members to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the principal body responsible for coordinating the OrganizationrCOs work on sustainable development and economic issues.
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rCyOur worst held fears are being confirmedrCO: Dozens of bodies discovered in Libya mass graves
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164021
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk. 
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Gaza: UN relief chief welcomes growing support for aid teams to resume vital work
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164011
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Amid reports of yet another deadly attack on a school in Gaza on Wednesday, the UNrCOs top aid official Tom Fletcher welcomed growing international calls for lifesaving aid work by established agencies to resume in the war-torn enclave.
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Haiti: WFP concerned over humanitarian situation as hurricane season begins https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164001
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over HaitirCOs humanitarian situation. 
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World News in Brief: Aid for Syria, children under attack in Mozambique, rights-based climate action
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163996
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly 16 million people in Syria need urgent humanitarian health support, the UN warned on Tuesday, as aid deliveries continue amid escalating needs, deadly explosive hazards and a severe funding shortfall.
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Five humanitarians killed in rCyhorrendousrCO attack on aid convoy in Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163991
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
An aid convoy carrying life-saving assistance for the famine-affected area of North Darfur, Sudan, was attacked on Monday night, killing five humanitarian workers, injuring many more and damaging critical humanitarian supplies.  
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As displacement surges in South Sudan, regional humanitarian crisis deepens https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163981
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since a sharp escalation in fighting in South Sudan in late February, 165,000 people have fled their homes, seeking safety either within the country or across borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. 
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Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163976
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in their homeland, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an alert on Tuesday.
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Five countries elected to serve on UN Security Council https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163971
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia were elected on Tuesday to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, with two-year terms beginning in January 2026.
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Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163966
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday rCLtrying to access paltry amounts of foodrCY around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel.
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World News in Brief: Guterres condemns antisemitic attacks, ILO to debate pros and cons of working online, Sudan, Ukraine updates
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163961
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General on Monday reinforced his stand against all acts of antisemitism following the horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, at the weekend and vandalism in France targeting Jewish landmarks.
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UN calls for rCyimmediate and unconditionalrCO release of aid workers arbitrarily detained in Yemen
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163956
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
As June marks one year since the arbitrary detention of dozens of personnel from the UN, NGOs, civil society organizations and diplomatic missions by the Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen, the UN Secretary-General has reiterated his call for their release, urging they be freed rCLimmediately and unconditionally.rCY
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Deadly flooding in Nigeria displaces thousands https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163951
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Flash flooding in western Nigeria at the weekend has caused devastation around the town of Mokwa in Niger state, leaving more than 150 dead and 3,000 people displaced rCo more than half of whom are children aged 12 and under rCo the UN said on Monday.
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GermanyrCOs Annalena Baerbock elected President of the 80th General Assembly https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163936
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Former German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock was elected President of the General AssemblyrCOs 80th session on Monday. Her appointment comes as the regional group that includes Western Europe takes its turn at the helm of the world body.
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Gaza: Guterres urges probe into killings at food distribution sites https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163926
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has condemned the reported killing and injury of Palestinians seeking food aid in Gaza on Sunday, calling for an investigation into the matter.
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Frontline Ukrainian families face perilous task of farming mined fields https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163921
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
As Ukrainian and Russian delegations meet for a second round of preliminary peace talks in Turk|>ye on Monday, rural communities faced their own challenge: finding something to eat.
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US decision to sanction ICC judges rCydeeply corrosiverCO to justice: UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164136
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The US GovernmentrCOs announcement of sanctions against four judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday has been condemned by Volker T|+rk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as rCLdeeply corrosive of good governance and the due administration of justice.rCY
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Green gold beneath the waves: How seaweed rCo and one manrCOs obsession rCo could save the world
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164131
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
As world leaders gear up for the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, one policy expert is making waves with an ancient marine organism he believes could help feed the planet, clean the air, and transform coastal economies. 
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Humans can't survive without a healthy Ocean: UN envoy https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163771
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Ocean is in deep crisis. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread pollution are contributing to a catastrophic decline in biodiversity: over half of marine species are at risk of extinction this century.
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rCyIt is an elephantrCO: UkrainerCOs unexploded mine problem https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164121
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
In Ukraine, overnight attacks continued into Thursday morning, resulting in 45 casualties and significant damage to civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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UN hails new era of cooperation over SyriarCOs chemical weapons stockpile rCo but concerns persist
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164126
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top disarmament official has welcomed signs of increased cooperation from SyriarCOs interim authorities in efforts to eliminate the countryrCOs chemical weapons once and for all, as preparations move forward for a third round of inspections by international experts.
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AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164111
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, but progress remains precarious, with the disease still claiming one life every minute. The impact of funding cuts is severe, causing widespread disruption to HIV services and threatening hard-won gains. 
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World News in Brief: WomenrCOs health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164116
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA said on Thursday. 
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From summits to street art to schools: HererCOs how werCOre marking World Environment Day
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164101
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
5 June marks the 52nd World Environment Day, led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and hosted by Jeju, South Korea, under the theme #BeatPlasticPollution. 
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UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution rCyaliverCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164091
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that there is no alternative.
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Number of aid workers killed in Gaza conflict, highest in UN history: Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164086
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations paid tribute on Thursday to the 168 staff members who lost their lives in 2024. They include 126 personnel killed in Gaza, all but one of whom served with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA. 
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In Gaza, daily food intake has fallen well below rCysurvivalrCO level https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164076
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians rCLvulnerable to starvationrCY, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
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The worldrCOs oceans are dying. Can a UN summit in Nice turn the tide? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164026
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
As coral reefs bleach, fish stocks collapse, and sea temperatures break records, world leaders are heading to the French Riviera rCo not for leisure, but for one of the most urgent diplomatic gatherings of the year.
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Top UN advocate sounds alarm over sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164061
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Mo|>se. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164056
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto rCo blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: US vetoes new resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire, unconditional release of hostages
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164036
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United States has vetoed a new draft resolution on Gaza, standing as the lone vote against the text which called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas and others and the immediate lifting of all aid restrictions. Follow live coverage from our Meetings Coverage Section and UN News app users can follow here.
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World Environment Day: UN sounds alarm on plastic pollution crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164046
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Every year, 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced worldwide, according to the UN. Half of this plastic is designed to be used only once, and only 10 per cent is recycled.  
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United States, Ukraine among new members elected to UN Economic and Social Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164016
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly on Wednesday elected a new slate of members to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the principal body responsible for coordinating the OrganizationrCOs work on sustainable development and economic issues.
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rCyOur worst held fears are being confirmedrCO: Dozens of bodies discovered in Libya mass graves
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164021
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk. 
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Gaza: UN relief chief welcomes growing support for aid teams to resume vital work
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164011
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Amid reports of yet another deadly attack on a school in Gaza on Wednesday, the UNrCOs top aid official Tom Fletcher welcomed growing international calls for lifesaving aid work by established agencies to resume in the war-torn enclave.
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Haiti: WFP concerned over humanitarian situation as hurricane season begins https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164001
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over HaitirCOs humanitarian situation. 
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World News in Brief: Aid for Syria, children under attack in Mozambique, rights-based climate action
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163996
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly 16 million people in Syria need urgent humanitarian health support, the UN warned on Tuesday, as aid deliveries continue amid escalating needs, deadly explosive hazards and a severe funding shortfall.
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Five humanitarians killed in rCyhorrendousrCO attack on aid convoy in Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163991
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
An aid convoy carrying life-saving assistance for the famine-affected area of North Darfur, Sudan, was attacked on Monday night, killing five humanitarian workers, injuring many more and damaging critical humanitarian supplies.  
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As displacement surges in South Sudan, regional humanitarian crisis deepens https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163981
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since a sharp escalation in fighting in South Sudan in late February, 165,000 people have fled their homes, seeking safety either within the country or across borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. 
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Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163976
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in their homeland, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an alert on Tuesday.
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Five countries elected to serve on UN Security Council https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163971
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia were elected on Tuesday to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, with two-year terms beginning in January 2026.
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Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163966
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday rCLtrying to access paltry amounts of foodrCY around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel.
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World News in Brief: Guterres condemns antisemitic attacks, ILO to debate pros and cons of working online, Sudan, Ukraine updates
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163961
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General on Monday reinforced his stand against all acts of antisemitism following the horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, at the weekend and vandalism in France targeting Jewish landmarks.
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UN calls for rCyimmediate and unconditionalrCO release of aid workers arbitrarily detained in Yemen
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163956
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
As June marks one year since the arbitrary detention of dozens of personnel from the UN, NGOs, civil society organizations and diplomatic missions by the Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen, the UN Secretary-General has reiterated his call for their release, urging they be freed rCLimmediately and unconditionally.rCY
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Deadly flooding in Nigeria displaces thousands https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163951
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Flash flooding in western Nigeria at the weekend has caused devastation around the town of Mokwa in Niger state, leaving more than 150 dead and 3,000 people displaced rCo more than half of whom are children aged 12 and under rCo the UN said on Monday.
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GermanyrCOs Annalena Baerbock elected President of the 80th General Assembly https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163936
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Former German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock was elected President of the General AssemblyrCOs 80th session on Monday. Her appointment comes as the regional group that includes Western Europe takes its turn at the helm of the world body.
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Stigmatised for being deaf: Z|-nabou's story https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164006
June 7, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the Central African Republic, disability carries a deep-rooted stigma, and persons with disabilities often find themselves excluded from almost every avenue of life. Z|-nabou, who is deaf and non-speaking, has suffered from prejudice, but a UN-backed educational programme offers a glimmer of hope.
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US decision to sanction ICC judges rCydeeply corrosiverCO to justice: UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164136
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The US GovernmentrCOs announcement of sanctions against four judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday has been condemned by Volker T|+rk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as rCLdeeply corrosive of good governance and the due administration of justice.rCY
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Green gold beneath the waves: How seaweed rCo and one manrCOs obsession rCo could save the world
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164131
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
As world leaders gear up for the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, one policy expert is making waves with an ancient marine organism he believes could help feed the planet, clean the air, and transform coastal economies. 
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Humans can't survive without a healthy Ocean: UN envoy https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163771
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Ocean is in deep crisis. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread pollution are contributing to a catastrophic decline in biodiversity: over half of marine species are at risk of extinction this century.
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rCyIt is an elephantrCO: UkrainerCOs unexploded mine problem https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164121
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
In Ukraine, overnight attacks continued into Thursday morning, resulting in 45 casualties and significant damage to civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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UN hails new era of cooperation over SyriarCOs chemical weapons stockpile rCo but concerns persist
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164126
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top disarmament official has welcomed signs of increased cooperation from SyriarCOs interim authorities in efforts to eliminate the countryrCOs chemical weapons once and for all, as preparations move forward for a third round of inspections by international experts.
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AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164111
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, but progress remains precarious, with the disease still claiming one life every minute. The impact of funding cuts is severe, causing widespread disruption to HIV services and threatening hard-won gains. 
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World News in Brief: WomenrCOs health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164116
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA said on Thursday. 
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From summits to street art to schools: HererCOs how werCOre marking World Environment Day
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164101
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
5 June marks the 52nd World Environment Day, led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and hosted by Jeju, South Korea, under the theme #BeatPlasticPollution. 
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UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution rCyaliverCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164091
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that there is no alternative.
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Number of aid workers killed in Gaza conflict, highest in UN history: Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164086
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations paid tribute on Thursday to the 168 staff members who lost their lives in 2024. They include 126 personnel killed in Gaza, all but one of whom served with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA. 
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In Gaza, daily food intake has fallen well below rCysurvivalrCO level https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164076
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians rCLvulnerable to starvationrCY, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
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The worldrCOs oceans are dying. Can a UN summit in Nice turn the tide? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164026
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
As coral reefs bleach, fish stocks collapse, and sea temperatures break records, world leaders are heading to the French Riviera rCo not for leisure, but for one of the most urgent diplomatic gatherings of the year.
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Top UN advocate sounds alarm over sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164061
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Mo|>se. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164056
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto rCo blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: US vetoes new resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire, unconditional release of hostages
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164036
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United States has vetoed a new draft resolution on Gaza, standing as the lone vote against the text which called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas and others and the immediate lifting of all aid restrictions. Follow live coverage from our Meetings Coverage Section and UN News app users can follow here.
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World Environment Day: UN sounds alarm on plastic pollution crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164046
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Every year, 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced worldwide, according to the UN. Half of this plastic is designed to be used only once, and only 10 per cent is recycled.  
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United States, Ukraine among new members elected to UN Economic and Social Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164016
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly on Wednesday elected a new slate of members to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the principal body responsible for coordinating the OrganizationrCOs work on sustainable development and economic issues.
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rCyOur worst held fears are being confirmedrCO: Dozens of bodies discovered in Libya mass graves
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164021
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk. 
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Gaza: UN relief chief welcomes growing support for aid teams to resume vital work
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164011
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Amid reports of yet another deadly attack on a school in Gaza on Wednesday, the UNrCOs top aid official Tom Fletcher welcomed growing international calls for lifesaving aid work by established agencies to resume in the war-torn enclave.
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Haiti: WFP concerned over humanitarian situation as hurricane season begins https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164001
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over HaitirCOs humanitarian situation. 
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World News in Brief: Aid for Syria, children under attack in Mozambique, rights-based climate action
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163996
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly 16 million people in Syria need urgent humanitarian health support, the UN warned on Tuesday, as aid deliveries continue amid escalating needs, deadly explosive hazards and a severe funding shortfall.
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Five humanitarians killed in rCyhorrendousrCO attack on aid convoy in Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163991
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
An aid convoy carrying life-saving assistance for the famine-affected area of North Darfur, Sudan, was attacked on Monday night, killing five humanitarian workers, injuring many more and damaging critical humanitarian supplies.  
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As displacement surges in South Sudan, regional humanitarian crisis deepens https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163981
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since a sharp escalation in fighting in South Sudan in late February, 165,000 people have fled their homes, seeking safety either within the country or across borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. 
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Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163976
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in their homeland, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an alert on Tuesday.
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Five countries elected to serve on UN Security Council https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163971
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia were elected on Tuesday to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, with two-year terms beginning in January 2026.
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Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163966
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday rCLtrying to access paltry amounts of foodrCY around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel.
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World News in Brief: Guterres condemns antisemitic attacks, ILO to debate pros and cons of working online, Sudan, Ukraine updates
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163961
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General on Monday reinforced his stand against all acts of antisemitism following the horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, at the weekend and vandalism in France targeting Jewish landmarks.
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UN calls for rCyimmediate and unconditionalrCO release of aid workers arbitrarily detained in Yemen
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163956
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
As June marks one year since the arbitrary detention of dozens of personnel from the UN, NGOs, civil society organizations and diplomatic missions by the Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen, the UN Secretary-General has reiterated his call for their release, urging they be freed rCLimmediately and unconditionally.rCY
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Deadly flooding in Nigeria displaces thousands https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163951
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Flash flooding in western Nigeria at the weekend has caused devastation around the town of Mokwa in Niger state, leaving more than 150 dead and 3,000 people displaced rCo more than half of whom are children aged 12 and under rCo the UN said on Monday.
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Drifting architects: Plankton, climate, and the race to understand our changing ocean
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164141
June 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
They drift unseen, but everything depends on them. Plankton rCo the oceanrCOs lifeblood rCo regulate the climate, feed the seas, and shape life on Earth. Scientists along the French Riviera are in a race against time to unlock the mysteries of these tiny organisms before their decline reverberates across the planet.
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Gaza: Women and girls struggle to manage their periods amid crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164081
June 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
Whether itrCOs their first time or a routine part of their life, menstruation has become a nightmare for women and girls in Gaza. The conditions they are forced to endure - displacement, overcrowded shelters, and lack of basic hygiene - have turned a natural biological process into a monthly ordeal.
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Stigmatised for being deaf: Z|-nabou's story https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164006
June 7, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the Central African Republic, disability carries a deep-rooted stigma, and persons with disabilities often find themselves excluded from almost every avenue of life. Z|-nabou, who is deaf and non-speaking, has suffered from prejudice, but a UN-backed educational programme offers a glimmer of hope.
--------------------
US decision to sanction ICC judges rCydeeply corrosiverCO to justice: UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164136
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The US GovernmentrCOs announcement of sanctions against four judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday has been condemned by Volker T|+rk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as rCLdeeply corrosive of good governance and the due administration of justice.rCY
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Green gold beneath the waves: How seaweed rCo and one manrCOs obsession rCo could save the world
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164131
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
As world leaders gear up for the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, one policy expert is making waves with an ancient marine organism he believes could help feed the planet, clean the air, and transform coastal economies. 
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Humans can't survive without a healthy Ocean: UN envoy https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163771
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Ocean is in deep crisis. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread pollution are contributing to a catastrophic decline in biodiversity: over half of marine species are at risk of extinction this century.
--------------------
rCyIt is an elephantrCO: UkrainerCOs unexploded mine problem https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164121
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
In Ukraine, overnight attacks continued into Thursday morning, resulting in 45 casualties and significant damage to civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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UN hails new era of cooperation over SyriarCOs chemical weapons stockpile rCo but concerns persist
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164126
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top disarmament official has welcomed signs of increased cooperation from SyriarCOs interim authorities in efforts to eliminate the countryrCOs chemical weapons once and for all, as preparations move forward for a third round of inspections by international experts.
--------------------
AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164111
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, but progress remains precarious, with the disease still claiming one life every minute. The impact of funding cuts is severe, causing widespread disruption to HIV services and threatening hard-won gains. 
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World News in Brief: WomenrCOs health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164116
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA said on Thursday. 
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From summits to street art to schools: HererCOs how werCOre marking World Environment Day
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164101
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
5 June marks the 52nd World Environment Day, led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and hosted by Jeju, South Korea, under the theme #BeatPlasticPollution. 
--------------------
UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution rCyaliverCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164091
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that there is no alternative.
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Number of aid workers killed in Gaza conflict, highest in UN history: Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164086
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations paid tribute on Thursday to the 168 staff members who lost their lives in 2024. They include 126 personnel killed in Gaza, all but one of whom served with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA. 
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In Gaza, daily food intake has fallen well below rCysurvivalrCO level https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164076
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians rCLvulnerable to starvationrCY, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
--------------------
The worldrCOs oceans are dying. Can a UN summit in Nice turn the tide? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164026
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
As coral reefs bleach, fish stocks collapse, and sea temperatures break records, world leaders are heading to the French Riviera rCo not for leisure, but for one of the most urgent diplomatic gatherings of the year.
--------------------
Top UN advocate sounds alarm over sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164061
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Mo|>se. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164056
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto rCo blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: US vetoes new resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire, unconditional release of hostages
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164036
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United States has vetoed a new draft resolution on Gaza, standing as the lone vote against the text which called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas and others and the immediate lifting of all aid restrictions. Follow live coverage from our Meetings Coverage Section and UN News app users can follow here.
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World Environment Day: UN sounds alarm on plastic pollution crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164046
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Every year, 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced worldwide, according to the UN. Half of this plastic is designed to be used only once, and only 10 per cent is recycled.  
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United States, Ukraine among new members elected to UN Economic and Social Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164016
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly on Wednesday elected a new slate of members to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the principal body responsible for coordinating the OrganizationrCOs work on sustainable development and economic issues.
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rCyOur worst held fears are being confirmedrCO: Dozens of bodies discovered in Libya mass graves
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164021
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk. 
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Gaza: UN relief chief welcomes growing support for aid teams to resume vital work
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164011
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Amid reports of yet another deadly attack on a school in Gaza on Wednesday, the UNrCOs top aid official Tom Fletcher welcomed growing international calls for lifesaving aid work by established agencies to resume in the war-torn enclave.
--------------------
Haiti: WFP concerned over humanitarian situation as hurricane season begins https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164001
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over HaitirCOs humanitarian situation. 
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World News in Brief: Aid for Syria, children under attack in Mozambique, rights-based climate action
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163996
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly 16 million people in Syria need urgent humanitarian health support, the UN warned on Tuesday, as aid deliveries continue amid escalating needs, deadly explosive hazards and a severe funding shortfall.
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Five humanitarians killed in rCyhorrendousrCO attack on aid convoy in Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163991
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
An aid convoy carrying life-saving assistance for the famine-affected area of North Darfur, Sudan, was attacked on Monday night, killing five humanitarian workers, injuring many more and damaging critical humanitarian supplies.  
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As displacement surges in South Sudan, regional humanitarian crisis deepens https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163981
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since a sharp escalation in fighting in South Sudan in late February, 165,000 people have fled their homes, seeking safety either within the country or across borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. 
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Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163976
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in their homeland, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an alert on Tuesday.
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Five countries elected to serve on UN Security Council https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163971
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia were elected on Tuesday to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, with two-year terms beginning in January 2026.
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Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163966
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday rCLtrying to access paltry amounts of foodrCY around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel.
--------------------
World News in Brief: Guterres condemns antisemitic attacks, ILO to debate pros and cons of working online, Sudan, Ukraine updates
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163961
June 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General on Monday reinforced his stand against all acts of antisemitism following the horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, at the weekend and vandalism in France targeting Jewish landmarks.
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Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164176
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The global fertility slump isnrCOt down to young people turning their backs on parenthood rCo itrCOs due to social and economic pressures stopping them from having the children they want, says a new UN report. 
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Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164171
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached rCLunprecedented levels of despair,rCY the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites. 
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No green without blue: Young ocean explorers set sail for a sustainable future https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164161
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
With science at the forefront of the opening day of the Third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3), UN News boarded a 111-year-old Norwegian tall ship on the French Riviera to meet 50 science students, along with a host of lecturers and citizen scientists fresh from a 46-day expedition. Fueled by satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA), their invaluable observations echo the urgent call to understand and protect the worldrCOs oceans.
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Lack of cooperation from Iran hampers nuclear checks, says atomic energy watchdog
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164166
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog has raised fresh concerns over IranrCOs failure to fully cooperate with inspections, warning that this is preventing independent verification of its nuclear activities.
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Central Africa at a crossroads amid rising tensions and instability https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164156
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
Despite its wealth of natural resources and potential, Central Africa continues to face serious challenges, from political instability to growing humanitarian needs.
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Guterres calls for an end to ocean rCyplunderrCO as UN summit opens in France https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164146
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
With the Mediterranean glittering in the background, UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres opened the Third United Nations Ocean Conference on Monday, delivering a blunt indictment of humanityrCOs fractured relationship with the sea.
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Drifting architects: Plankton, climate, and the race to understand our changing ocean
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164141
June 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
They drift unseen, but everything depends on them. Plankton rCo the oceanrCOs lifeblood rCo regulate the climate, feed the seas, and shape life on Earth. Scientists along the French Riviera are in a race against time to unlock the mysteries of these tiny organisms before their decline reverberates across the planet.
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Gaza: Women and girls struggle to manage their periods amid crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164081
June 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
Whether itrCOs their first time or a routine part of their life, menstruation has become a nightmare for women and girls in Gaza. The conditions they are forced to endure - displacement, overcrowded shelters, and lack of basic hygiene - have turned a natural biological process into a monthly ordeal.
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Stigmatised for being deaf: Z|-nabou's story https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164006
June 7, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the Central African Republic, disability carries a deep-rooted stigma, and persons with disabilities often find themselves excluded from almost every avenue of life. Z|-nabou, who is deaf and non-speaking, has suffered from prejudice, but a UN-backed educational programme offers a glimmer of hope.
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US decision to sanction ICC judges rCydeeply corrosiverCO to justice: UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164136
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The US GovernmentrCOs announcement of sanctions against four judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday has been condemned by Volker T|+rk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as rCLdeeply corrosive of good governance and the due administration of justice.rCY
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Green gold beneath the waves: How seaweed rCo and one manrCOs obsession rCo could save the world
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164131
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
As world leaders gear up for the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, one policy expert is making waves with an ancient marine organism he believes could help feed the planet, clean the air, and transform coastal economies. 
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Humans can't survive without a healthy Ocean: UN envoy https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163771
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Ocean is in deep crisis. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread pollution are contributing to a catastrophic decline in biodiversity: over half of marine species are at risk of extinction this century.
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rCyIt is an elephantrCO: UkrainerCOs unexploded mine problem https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164121
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
In Ukraine, overnight attacks continued into Thursday morning, resulting in 45 casualties and significant damage to civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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UN hails new era of cooperation over SyriarCOs chemical weapons stockpile rCo but concerns persist
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164126
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top disarmament official has welcomed signs of increased cooperation from SyriarCOs interim authorities in efforts to eliminate the countryrCOs chemical weapons once and for all, as preparations move forward for a third round of inspections by international experts.
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AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164111
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, but progress remains precarious, with the disease still claiming one life every minute. The impact of funding cuts is severe, causing widespread disruption to HIV services and threatening hard-won gains. 
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World News in Brief: WomenrCOs health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164116
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA said on Thursday. 
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From summits to street art to schools: HererCOs how werCOre marking World Environment Day
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164101
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
5 June marks the 52nd World Environment Day, led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and hosted by Jeju, South Korea, under the theme #BeatPlasticPollution. 
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UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution rCyaliverCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164091
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that there is no alternative.
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Number of aid workers killed in Gaza conflict, highest in UN history: Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164086
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations paid tribute on Thursday to the 168 staff members who lost their lives in 2024. They include 126 personnel killed in Gaza, all but one of whom served with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA. 
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In Gaza, daily food intake has fallen well below rCysurvivalrCO level https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164076
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians rCLvulnerable to starvationrCY, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
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The worldrCOs oceans are dying. Can a UN summit in Nice turn the tide? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164026
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
As coral reefs bleach, fish stocks collapse, and sea temperatures break records, world leaders are heading to the French Riviera rCo not for leisure, but for one of the most urgent diplomatic gatherings of the year.
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Top UN advocate sounds alarm over sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164061
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Mo|>se. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164056
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto rCo blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: US vetoes new resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire, unconditional release of hostages
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164036
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United States has vetoed a new draft resolution on Gaza, standing as the lone vote against the text which called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas and others and the immediate lifting of all aid restrictions. Follow live coverage from our Meetings Coverage Section and UN News app users can follow here.
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World Environment Day: UN sounds alarm on plastic pollution crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164046
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Every year, 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced worldwide, according to the UN. Half of this plastic is designed to be used only once, and only 10 per cent is recycled.  
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United States, Ukraine among new members elected to UN Economic and Social Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164016
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly on Wednesday elected a new slate of members to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the principal body responsible for coordinating the OrganizationrCOs work on sustainable development and economic issues.
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rCyOur worst held fears are being confirmedrCO: Dozens of bodies discovered in Libya mass graves
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164021
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk. 
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Gaza: UN relief chief welcomes growing support for aid teams to resume vital work
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164011
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Amid reports of yet another deadly attack on a school in Gaza on Wednesday, the UNrCOs top aid official Tom Fletcher welcomed growing international calls for lifesaving aid work by established agencies to resume in the war-torn enclave.
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Haiti: WFP concerned over humanitarian situation as hurricane season begins https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164001
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over HaitirCOs humanitarian situation. 
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World News in Brief: Aid for Syria, children under attack in Mozambique, rights-based climate action
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163996
June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly 16 million people in Syria need urgent humanitarian health support, the UN warned on Tuesday, as aid deliveries continue amid escalating needs, deadly explosive hazards and a severe funding shortfall.
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World News in Brief: Global growth slows, deadly Ukraine attacks, Haiti hurricane hunger risk, legal migration for refugees
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164241
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Global economic growth is expected to decline this year due to increased trade barriers and policy uncertainty, the World Bank said in a report published on Tuesday. 
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Myanmar on the rCypath to self-destructionrCO if violence does not end https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164231
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Global action needed as progress stalls on disability-inclusive development goals
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164221
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly all the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for persons with disabilities are off track the UN deputy chief said on Tuesday, as people from around the world gathered for the largest annual meeting on disability-related issues. 
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UN committed to supporting rCyfree, fair and transparent election with the participation of all IraqisrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164216
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The top UN official in Iraq reiterated his confidence in the resilience of the countryrCOs people, and the determination of their leaders, in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday.   
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The battle to quiet the sea: Can the shipping industry turn down the volume? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164196
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ocean has never been silent rCo 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 rCo itrCOs a threat to their survival.
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Israeli attacks on Gaza schools could be crimes against humanity: UN probe https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164191
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Israeli militaryrCOs destruction of GazarCOs education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, a UN investigative body said on Tuesday, as humanitarian agencies warned of continued mass suffering across the Strip.
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Greed is driving oceans toward collapse https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164186
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ocean is under siege rCo and greed is to blame. UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders and grassroots groups to confront the powerful interests driving marine destruction, from illegal fishing and plastic pollution to the accelerating impacts of climate change.
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Sudan emergency: We need more help to prevent famine, says WFP https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164181
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The very real risk of famine continues to stalk SudanrCOs communities impacted by war, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, in an appeal for more funding to support immediate needs and boost longer-term recovery across the country.
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Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164176
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The global fertility slump isnrCOt down to young people turning their backs on parenthood rCo itrCOs due to social and economic pressures stopping them from having the children they want, says a new UN report. 
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Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164171
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached rCLunprecedented levels of despair,rCY the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites. 
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No green without blue: Young ocean explorers set sail for a sustainable future https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164161
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
With science at the forefront of the opening day of the Third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3), UN News boarded a 111-year-old Norwegian tall ship on the French Riviera to meet 50 science students, along with a host of lecturers and citizen scientists fresh from a 46-day expedition. Fueled by satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA), their invaluable observations echo the urgent call to understand and protect the worldrCOs oceans.
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Lack of cooperation from Iran hampers nuclear checks, says atomic energy watchdog
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164166
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog has raised fresh concerns over IranrCOs failure to fully cooperate with inspections, warning that this is preventing independent verification of its nuclear activities.
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Central Africa at a crossroads amid rising tensions and instability https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164156
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
Despite its wealth of natural resources and potential, Central Africa continues to face serious challenges, from political instability to growing humanitarian needs.
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Guterres calls for an end to ocean rCyplunderrCO as UN summit opens in France https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164146
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
With the Mediterranean glittering in the background, UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres opened the Third United Nations Ocean Conference on Monday, delivering a blunt indictment of humanityrCOs fractured relationship with the sea.
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Drifting architects: Plankton, climate, and the race to understand our changing ocean
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164141
June 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
They drift unseen, but everything depends on them. Plankton rCo the oceanrCOs lifeblood rCo regulate the climate, feed the seas, and shape life on Earth. Scientists along the French Riviera are in a race against time to unlock the mysteries of these tiny organisms before their decline reverberates across the planet.
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Gaza: Women and girls struggle to manage their periods amid crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164081
June 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
Whether itrCOs their first time or a routine part of their life, menstruation has become a nightmare for women and girls in Gaza. The conditions they are forced to endure - displacement, overcrowded shelters, and lack of basic hygiene - have turned a natural biological process into a monthly ordeal.
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Stigmatised for being deaf: Z|-nabou's story https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164006
June 7, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the Central African Republic, disability carries a deep-rooted stigma, and persons with disabilities often find themselves excluded from almost every avenue of life. Z|-nabou, who is deaf and non-speaking, has suffered from prejudice, but a UN-backed educational programme offers a glimmer of hope.
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US decision to sanction ICC judges rCydeeply corrosiverCO to justice: UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164136
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The US GovernmentrCOs announcement of sanctions against four judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday has been condemned by Volker T|+rk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as rCLdeeply corrosive of good governance and the due administration of justice.rCY
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Green gold beneath the waves: How seaweed rCo and one manrCOs obsession rCo could save the world
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164131
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
As world leaders gear up for the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, one policy expert is making waves with an ancient marine organism he believes could help feed the planet, clean the air, and transform coastal economies. 
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Humans can't survive without a healthy Ocean: UN envoy https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163771
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Ocean is in deep crisis. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread pollution are contributing to a catastrophic decline in biodiversity: over half of marine species are at risk of extinction this century.
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rCyIt is an elephantrCO: UkrainerCOs unexploded mine problem https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164121
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
In Ukraine, overnight attacks continued into Thursday morning, resulting in 45 casualties and significant damage to civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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UN hails new era of cooperation over SyriarCOs chemical weapons stockpile rCo but concerns persist
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164126
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top disarmament official has welcomed signs of increased cooperation from SyriarCOs interim authorities in efforts to eliminate the countryrCOs chemical weapons once and for all, as preparations move forward for a third round of inspections by international experts.
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AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164111
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, but progress remains precarious, with the disease still claiming one life every minute. The impact of funding cuts is severe, causing widespread disruption to HIV services and threatening hard-won gains. 
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World News in Brief: WomenrCOs health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164116
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA said on Thursday. 
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From summits to street art to schools: HererCOs how werCOre marking World Environment Day
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164101
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
5 June marks the 52nd World Environment Day, led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and hosted by Jeju, South Korea, under the theme #BeatPlasticPollution. 
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UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution rCyaliverCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164091
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that there is no alternative.
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Number of aid workers killed in Gaza conflict, highest in UN history: Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164086
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations paid tribute on Thursday to the 168 staff members who lost their lives in 2024. They include 126 personnel killed in Gaza, all but one of whom served with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA. 
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In Gaza, daily food intake has fallen well below rCysurvivalrCO level https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164076
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians rCLvulnerable to starvationrCY, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
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The worldrCOs oceans are dying. Can a UN summit in Nice turn the tide? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164026
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
As coral reefs bleach, fish stocks collapse, and sea temperatures break records, world leaders are heading to the French Riviera rCo not for leisure, but for one of the most urgent diplomatic gatherings of the year.
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Top UN advocate sounds alarm over sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164061
June 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Mo|>se. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164256
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164286
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Rising hunger in Gaza highlights urgent need for rCyunfetteredrCO aid supplies https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164271
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the rCLvery limitedrCY volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.rC> 
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Ukraine: Ongoing Russian strikes continue alarming civilian casualty trend https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164276
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 latest report.
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Climate emergency is a health crisis rCythat is already killing us,rCO says WHO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164261
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo and itrCOs already claiming lives.
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rCyPlenty of fish in the searCO? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164251
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the rCLcatch of the dayrCY wasnrCOt a seabass or a red mullet rCo it was a figure: 35 per cent. ThatrCOs the share of global fish stocks now being harvested unsustainably, according to a new UN report released Wednesday.
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The world pledged to end child labour by 2025: So why are 138 million kids still working?
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164211
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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At least eight drown in Red Sea as smugglers force migrants overboard https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164246
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
Survivors of a people-smuggling operation in the Red Sea have recounted how they were forced off their boat far from the coast of Djibouti and left to swim for their lives.
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World News in Brief: Global growth slows, deadly Ukraine attacks, Haiti hurricane hunger risk, legal migration for refugees
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164241
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Global economic growth is expected to decline this year due to increased trade barriers and policy uncertainty, the World Bank said in a report published on Tuesday. 
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Myanmar on the rCypath to self-destructionrCO if violence does not end https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164231
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Global action needed as progress stalls on disability-inclusive development goals
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164221
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly all the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for persons with disabilities are off track, the UN deputy chief said on Tuesday, as people from around the world gathered for the largest annual meeting on disability-related issues. 
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UN committed to supporting rCyfree, fair and transparent election with the participation of all IraqisrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164216
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The top UN official in Iraq reiterated his confidence in the resilience of the countryrCOs people, and the determination of their leaders, in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday.   
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The battle to quiet the sea: Can the shipping industry turn down the volume? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164196
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ocean has never been silent rCo 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 rCo itrCOs a threat to their survival.
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Israeli attacks on Gaza schools could be crimes against humanity: UN probe https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164191
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Israeli militaryrCOs destruction of GazarCOs education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, a UN investigative body said on Tuesday, as humanitarian agencies warned of continued mass suffering across the Strip.
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Greed is driving oceans toward collapse https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164186
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ocean is under siege rCo and greed is to blame. UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders and grassroots groups to confront the powerful interests driving marine destruction, from illegal fishing and plastic pollution to the accelerating impacts of climate change.
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Sudan emergency: We need more help to prevent famine, says WFP https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164181
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The very real risk of famine continues to stalk SudanrCOs communities impacted by war, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, in an appeal for more funding to support immediate needs and boost longer-term recovery across the country.
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Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164176
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The global fertility slump isnrCOt down to young people turning their backs on parenthood rCo itrCOs due to social and economic pressures stopping them from having the children they want, says a new UN report. 
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Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164171
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached rCLunprecedented levels of despair,rCY the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites. 
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No green without blue: Young ocean explorers set sail for a sustainable future https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164161
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
With science at the forefront of the opening day of the Third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3), UN News boarded a 111-year-old Norwegian tall ship on the French Riviera to meet 50 science students, along with a host of lecturers and citizen scientists fresh from a 46-day expedition. Fueled by satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA), their invaluable observations echo the urgent call to understand and protect the worldrCOs oceans.
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Lack of cooperation from Iran hampers nuclear checks, says atomic energy watchdog
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164166
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog has raised fresh concerns over IranrCOs failure to fully cooperate with inspections, warning that this is preventing independent verification of its nuclear activities.
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Central Africa at a crossroads amid rising tensions and instability https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164156
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
Despite its wealth of natural resources and potential, Central Africa continues to face serious challenges, from political instability to growing humanitarian needs.
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Guterres calls for an end to ocean rCyplunderrCO as UN summit opens in France https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164146
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
With the Mediterranean glittering in the background, UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres opened the Third United Nations Ocean Conference on Monday, delivering a blunt indictment of humanityrCOs fractured relationship with the sea.
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Drifting architects: Plankton, climate, and the race to understand our changing ocean
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164141
June 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
They drift unseen, but everything depends on them. Plankton rCo the oceanrCOs lifeblood rCo regulate the climate, feed the seas, and shape life on Earth. Scientists along the French Riviera are in a race against time to unlock the mysteries of these tiny organisms before their decline reverberates across the planet.
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Gaza: Women and girls struggle to manage their periods amid crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164081
June 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
Whether itrCOs their first time or a routine part of their life, menstruation has become a nightmare for women and girls in Gaza. The conditions they are forced to endure - displacement, overcrowded shelters, and lack of basic hygiene - have turned a natural biological process into a monthly ordeal.
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Stigmatised for being deaf: Z|-nabou's story https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164006
June 7, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the Central African Republic, disability carries a deep-rooted stigma, and persons with disabilities often find themselves excluded from almost every avenue of life. Z|-nabou, who is deaf and non-speaking, has suffered from prejudice, but a UN-backed educational programme offers a glimmer of hope.
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US decision to sanction ICC judges rCydeeply corrosiverCO to justice: UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164136
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The US GovernmentrCOs announcement of sanctions against four judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday has been condemned by Volker T|+rk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as rCLdeeply corrosive of good governance and the due administration of justice.rCY
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Green gold beneath the waves: How seaweed rCo and one manrCOs obsession rCo could save the world
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164131
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
As world leaders gear up for the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, one policy expert is making waves with an ancient marine organism he believes could help feed the planet, clean the air, and transform coastal economies. 
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Humans can't survive without a healthy Ocean: UN envoy https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1163771
June 6, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Ocean is in deep crisis. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread pollution are contributing to a catastrophic decline in biodiversity: over half of marine species are at risk of extinction this century.
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rCyIt is an elephantrCO: UkrainerCOs unexploded mine problem https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164121
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
In Ukraine, overnight attacks continued into Thursday morning, resulting in 45 casualties and significant damage to civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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UN hails new era of cooperation over SyriarCOs chemical weapons stockpile rCo but concerns persist
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164126
June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top disarmament official has welcomed signs of increased cooperation from SyriarCOs interim authorities in efforts to eliminate the countryrCOs chemical weapons once and for all, as preparations move forward for a third round of inspections by international experts.
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UN General Assembly adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution by overwhelming majority https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164346
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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World News in Brief: rCyIndifference and impunityrCO in Sudan, ICC judges speak out against sanctions, respiratory diseases overlooked in Europe
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164336
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of aid and lean season rapidly approaching, the UN Chief for Humanitarian Affairs once again sounded the alarm about the crisis unfolding in Sudan on Thursday. 
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UN chief rCydeeply saddenedrCO as Air India crash claims lives of over 200 on board
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164331
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Yemen at breaking point as UN envoy urges action to end suffering https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164321
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
Yemen cannot endure more years of division, economic collapse and human suffering, the UNrCOs top official on the crisis told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that rCLtime is not on our side.rCY
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Famine stalks two counties in South Sudan as fragile peace is threatened https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164311
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
Two counties in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan are sliding into famine, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in a new report released Thursday. 
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rCyNo Ocean Declaration without small islandsrCO: Delegates push for inclusion as UN summit nears end
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164306
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
With one day remaining before the conclusion of the Third UN Ocean Conference, delegates in Nice are preparing for the adoption of the summitrCOs 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.
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Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164301
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 planetrCOs fastest-growing environmental threats: plastic pollution. 
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Decades of memories and loss rCo searching for the missing in Syria https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164296
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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GAZA LIVE: UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts resolution demanding immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164281
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly overwhelming 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 rCo including Israel and the US rCo and 19 abstentions. App users can follow our live coverage here.
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Atomic watchdog says Iran not complying with nuclear safeguards https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164291
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN-backed atomic watchdog voted through a resolution on Thursday declaring that Iran is not complying with its obligations regarding nuclear non-proliferation.
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Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164256
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164286
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Rising hunger in Gaza highlights urgent need for rCyunfetteredrCO aid supplies https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164271
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the rCLvery limitedrCY volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.rC> 
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Ukraine: Ongoing Russian strikes continue alarming civilian casualty trend https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164276
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 latest report.
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Climate emergency is a health crisis rCythat is already killing us,rCO says WHO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164261
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo and itrCOs already claiming lives.
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rCyPlenty of fish in the searCO? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164251
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the rCLcatch of the dayrCY wasnrCOt a seabass or a red mullet rCo it was a figure: 35 per cent. ThatrCOs the share of global fish stocks now being harvested unsustainably, according to a new UN report released Wednesday.
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The world pledged to end child labour by 2025: So why are 138 million kids still working?
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164211
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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At least eight drown in Red Sea as smugglers force migrants overboard https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164246
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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World News in Brief: Global growth slows, deadly Ukraine attacks, Haiti hurricane hunger risk, legal migration for refugees
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164241
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Global economic growth is expected to decline this year due to increased trade barriers and policy uncertainty, the World Bank said in a report published on Tuesday. 
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Myanmar on the rCypath to self-destructionrCO if violence does not end https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164231
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Global action needed as progress stalls on disability-inclusive development goals
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164221
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly all the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for persons with disabilities are off track, the UN deputy chief said on Tuesday, as people from around the world gathered for the largest annual meeting on disability-related issues. 
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UN committed to supporting rCyfree, fair and transparent election with the participation of all IraqisrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164216
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The top UN official in Iraq reiterated his confidence in the resilience of the countryrCOs people, and the determination of their leaders, in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday.   
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The battle to quiet the sea: Can the shipping industry turn down the volume? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164196
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ocean has never been silent rCo 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 rCo itrCOs a threat to their survival.
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Israeli attacks on Gaza schools could be crimes against humanity: UN probe https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164191
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Israeli militaryrCOs destruction of GazarCOs education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, a UN investigative body said on Tuesday, as humanitarian agencies warned of continued mass suffering across the Strip.
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Greed is driving oceans toward collapse https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164186
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ocean is under siege rCo and greed is to blame. UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders and grassroots groups to confront the powerful interests driving marine destruction, from illegal fishing and plastic pollution to the accelerating impacts of climate change.
--------------------
Sudan emergency: We need more help to prevent famine, says WFP https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164181
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The very real risk of famine continues to stalk SudanrCOs communities impacted by war, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, in an appeal for more funding to support immediate needs and boost longer-term recovery across the country.
--------------------
Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164176
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The global fertility slump isnrCOt down to young people turning their backs on parenthood rCo itrCOs due to social and economic pressures stopping them from having the children they want, says a new UN report. 
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Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164171
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached rCLunprecedented levels of despair,rCY the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites. 
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No green without blue: Young ocean explorers set sail for a sustainable future https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164161
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
With science at the forefront of the opening day of the Third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3), UN News boarded a 111-year-old Norwegian tall ship on the French Riviera to meet 50 science students, along with a host of lecturers and citizen scientists fresh from a 46-day expedition. Fueled by satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA), their invaluable observations echo the urgent call to understand and protect the worldrCOs oceans.
--------------------
Lack of cooperation from Iran hampers nuclear checks, says atomic energy watchdog
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164166
June 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog has raised fresh concerns over IranrCOs failure to fully cooperate with inspections, warning that this is preventing independent verification of its nuclear activities.
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Shaping a better world at Expo 2025 in Japan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164341
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
How can we build a fairer, more peaceful world while safeguarding the planet? ThatrCOs the powerful question at the heart of the United Nations Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
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Security Council meets in emergency session over Iran-Israel conflict, amid strikes and counterstrikes
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164401
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
IsraelrCOs 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.
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Societies grappling with a rCysilent but growingrCO prison crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164396
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect rCo fuelling calls for urgent reform. 
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World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164386
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk said on Friday. 
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Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164376
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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UN ocean summit in Nice closes with wave of commitments https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164381
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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DR Congo crisis: Aid teams appeal for support to help displaced communities left with nothing
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164356
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Israel-Iran crisis: UN chief urges calm after overnight strikes https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164351
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres condemned Israeli strikes in Iran late Thursday evening, urging rCymaximum restraintrCO from Member States. The head of the UN-backed atomic watchdog also highlighted the risk of a wider conflict.  
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UN General Assembly adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution by overwhelming majority https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164346
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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World News in Brief: rCyIndifference and impunityrCO in Sudan, ICC judges speak out against sanctions, respiratory diseases overlooked in Europe
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164336
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of aid and lean season rapidly approaching, the UN Chief for Humanitarian Affairs once again sounded the alarm about the crisis unfolding in Sudan on Thursday. 
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UN chief rCydeeply saddenedrCO as Air India crash claims lives of over 200 on board
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164331
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Yemen at breaking point as UN envoy urges action to end suffering https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164321
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
Yemen cannot endure more years of division, economic collapse and human suffering, the UNrCOs top official on the crisis told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that rCLtime is not on our side.rCY
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Famine stalks two counties in South Sudan as fragile peace is threatened https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164311
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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rCyNo Ocean Declaration without small islandsrCO: Delegates push for inclusion as UN summit nears end
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164306
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
With one day remaining before the conclusion of the Third UN Ocean Conference, delegates in Nice are preparing for the adoption of the summitrCOs 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.
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Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164301
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 planetrCOs fastest-growing environmental threats: plastic pollution. 
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Decades of memories and loss rCo searching for the missing in Syria https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164296
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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GAZA LIVE: UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts resolution demanding immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164281
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo including Israel and the US rCo and 19 abstentions. App users can follow our live coverage here.
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Atomic watchdog says Iran not complying with nuclear safeguards https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164291
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN-backed atomic watchdog passed a resolution on Thursday declaring that Iran is not complying with its obligations regarding nuclear non-proliferation.
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Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164256
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164286
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Rising hunger in Gaza highlights urgent need for rCyunfetteredrCO aid supplies https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164271
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the rCLvery limitedrCY volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.rC> 
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Ukraine: Ongoing Russian strikes continue alarming civilian casualty trend https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164276
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 latest report.
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Climate emergency is a health crisis rCythat is already killing us,rCO says WHO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164261
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo and itrCOs already claiming lives.
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rCyPlenty of fish in the searCO? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164251
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the rCLcatch of the dayrCY wasnrCOt a seabass or a red mullet rCo it was a figure: 35 per cent. ThatrCOs the share of global fish stocks now being harvested unsustainably, according to a new UN report released Wednesday.
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The world pledged to end child labour by 2025: So why are 138 million kids still working?
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164211
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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At least eight drown in Red Sea as smugglers force migrants overboard https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164246
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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World News in Brief: Global growth slows, deadly Ukraine attacks, Haiti hurricane hunger risk, legal migration for refugees
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164241
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Global economic growth is expected to decline this year due to increased trade barriers and policy uncertainty, the World Bank said in a report published on Tuesday. 
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Myanmar on the rCypath to self-destructionrCO if violence does not end https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164231
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Global action needed as progress stalls on disability-inclusive development goals
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164221
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly all the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for persons with disabilities are off track, the UN deputy chief said on Tuesday, as people from around the world gathered for the largest annual meeting on disability-related issues. 
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UN committed to supporting rCyfree, fair and transparent election with the participation of all IraqisrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164216
June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The top UN official in Iraq reiterated his confidence in the resilience of the countryrCOs people, and the determination of their leaders, in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday.   
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From Himalayan melt to drowning shores, children lead the climate fight https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164456
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
From the high Himalayas down to sea level, climate change is no longer a distant threat for children in Nepal and the Maldives rCo it is a daily struggle: landslides tear through mountain villages washing away homes and farms, while rising seas surge over island shorelines, threatening to swallow entire communities.
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DR Congo: Human rights violations could amount to war crimes, UN experts say https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164466
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in Geneva on Monday.
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Guterres to launch life-saving campaign strengthening mine action worldwide https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164451
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General is set to launch a global campaign to boost support for disarmament and mine action. 
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UNHCR forced to make deep cuts, despite rising needs worldwide https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164446
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Without urgent funding, global hunger hotspots are set to grow, UN warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164441
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people have fled to neighbouring South Sudan, seeking refuge from escalating violence that has displaced 12.4 million people and plunged over half the Sudanese population into food insecurity. 
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rCyBehind each crisis, people are suffering,rCO T|+rk tells Human Rights Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164436
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Eighty years after the United Nations was established to end war, uphold fundamental human rights and promote justice and international law, those founding principles are increasingly under threat, the UNrCOs human rights chief warned on Monday. 
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Brutal cuts mean brutal choices warns UN relief chief, launching rCysurvival appealrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164421
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Facing the most severe funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian aid, UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Monday announced a rCLhyper-prioritisedrCY appeal for $29 billion to meet urgent global needs. 
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MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Live updates for 16 June https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164411
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
After a weekend of massive strikes and counter-strikes between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the UN's human rights chief, Volker T|+rk 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, thanks for joining us. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here.
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Shaping a better world at Expo 2025 in Japan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164341
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
How can we build a fairer, more peaceful world while safeguarding the planet? ThatrCOs the powerful question at the heart of the United Nations Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
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Security Council meets in emergency session over Iran-Israel conflict, amid strikes and counterstrikes
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164401
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
IsraelrCOs 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.
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Societies grappling with a rCysilent but growingrCO prison crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164396
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect rCo fuelling calls for urgent reform. 
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World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164386
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk said on Friday. 
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Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164376
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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UN ocean summit in Nice closes with wave of commitments https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164381
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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DR Congo crisis: Aid teams appeal for support to help displaced communities left with nothing
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164356
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Israel-Iran crisis: UN chief urges calm after overnight strikes https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164351
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres condemned Israeli strikes in Iran late Thursday evening, urging rCymaximum restraintrCO from Member States. The head of the UN-backed atomic watchdog also highlighted the risk of a wider conflict.  
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UN General Assembly adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution by overwhelming majority https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164346
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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World News in Brief: rCyIndifference and impunityrCO in Sudan, ICC judges speak out against sanctions, respiratory diseases overlooked in Europe
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164336
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of aid and lean season rapidly approaching, the UN Chief for Humanitarian Affairs once again sounded the alarm about the crisis unfolding in Sudan on Thursday. 
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UN chief rCydeeply saddenedrCO as Air India crash claims lives of over 200 on board
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164331
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Yemen at breaking point as UN envoy urges action to end suffering https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164321
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
Yemen cannot endure more years of division, economic collapse and human suffering, the UNrCOs top official on the crisis told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that rCLtime is not on our side.rCY
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Famine stalks two counties in South Sudan as fragile peace is threatened https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164311
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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rCyNo Ocean Declaration without small islandsrCO: Delegates push for inclusion as UN summit nears end
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164306
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
With one day remaining before the conclusion of the Third UN Ocean Conference, delegates in Nice are preparing for the adoption of the summitrCOs 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.
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Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164301
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 planetrCOs fastest-growing environmental threats: plastic pollution. 
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Decades of memories and loss rCo searching for the missing in Syria https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164296
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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GAZA LIVE: UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts resolution demanding immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164281
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo including Israel and the US rCo and 19 abstentions. App users can follow our live coverage here.
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Atomic watchdog says Iran not complying with nuclear safeguards https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164291
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN-backed atomic watchdog passed a resolution on Thursday declaring that Iran is not complying with its obligations regarding nuclear non-proliferation.
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Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164256
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164286
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Rising hunger in Gaza highlights urgent need for rCyunfetteredrCO aid supplies https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164271
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the rCLvery limitedrCY volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.rC> 
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Ukraine: Ongoing Russian strikes continue alarming civilian casualty trend https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164276
June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 latest report.
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rCyHate speech is poison in the well of society,rCO says Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164501
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hate speech is a warning sign and a driver of violence, UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres said ahead of WednesdayrCOs International Day for Countering Hate Speech.
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Israeli actions in Palestinian territories constitute war crimes, Human Rights Council hears
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164496
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ongoing crises in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Sudan are in the spotlight this week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva.
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UN condemns deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian capital as civilian toll mounts https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164486
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
At least 14 civilians were reportedly killed and more than 100 injured in Kyiv overnight into Tuesday, as Russian drone and missile strikes struck multiple Ukrainian cities in one of the heaviest nights of bombing in months.
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rCySyria simply cannot withstand another wave of instability,rCO Security Council hears
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164481
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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Afghan women face near total social, economic and political exclusion https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164476
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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More Gazans killed trying to get food, healthcare near to rCyfull disasterrCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164471
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
GazarCOs 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. 
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From Himalayan melt to drowning shores, children lead the climate fight https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164456
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
From the high Himalayas down to sea level, climate change is no longer a distant threat for children in Nepal and the Maldives rCo it is a daily struggle: landslides tear through mountain villages washing away homes and farms, while rising seas surge over island shorelines, threatening to swallow entire communities.
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DR Congo: Human rights violations could amount to war crimes, UN experts say https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164466
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in Geneva on Monday.
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Guterres to launch life-saving campaign strengthening mine action worldwide https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164451
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General is set to launch a global campaign to boost support for disarmament and mine action. 
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UNHCR forced to make deep cuts, despite rising needs worldwide https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164446
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Without urgent funding, global hunger hotspots are set to grow, UN warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164441
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people have fled to neighbouring South Sudan, seeking refuge from escalating violence that has displaced 12.4 million people and plunged over half the Sudanese population into food insecurity. 
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rCyBehind each crisis, people are suffering,rCO T|+rk tells Human Rights Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164436
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Eighty years after the United Nations was established to end war, uphold fundamental human rights and promote justice and international law, those founding principles are increasingly under threat, the UNrCOs human rights chief warned on Monday. 
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Brutal cuts mean brutal choices warns UN relief chief, launching rCysurvival appealrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164421
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Facing the most severe funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian aid, UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Monday announced a rCLhyper-prioritisedrCY appeal for $29 billion to meet urgent global needs. 
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MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Live updates for 16 June https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164411
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
After a weekend of massive strikes and counter-strikes between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the UN's human rights chief, Volker T|+rk 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, thanks for joining us. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here.
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Shaping a better world at Expo 2025 in Japan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164341
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
How can we build a fairer, more peaceful world while safeguarding the planet? ThatrCOs the powerful question at the heart of the United Nations Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
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Security Council meets in emergency session over Iran-Israel conflict, amid strikes and counterstrikes
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164401
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
IsraelrCOs 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.
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Societies grappling with a rCysilent but growingrCO prison crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164396
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect rCo fuelling calls for urgent reform. 
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World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164386
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk said on Friday. 
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Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164376
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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UN ocean summit in Nice closes with wave of commitments https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164381
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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DR Congo crisis: Aid teams appeal for support to help displaced communities left with nothing
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164356
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Israel-Iran crisis: UN chief urges calm after overnight strikes https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164351
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres condemned Israeli strikes in Iran late Thursday evening, urging rCymaximum restraintrCO from Member States. The head of the UN-backed atomic watchdog also highlighted the risk of a wider conflict.  
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UN General Assembly adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution by overwhelming majority https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164346
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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World News in Brief: rCyIndifference and impunityrCO in Sudan, ICC judges speak out against sanctions, respiratory diseases overlooked in Europe
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164336
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of aid and lean season rapidly approaching, the UN Chief for Humanitarian Affairs once again sounded the alarm about the crisis unfolding in Sudan on Thursday. 
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UN chief rCydeeply saddenedrCO as Air India crash claims lives of over 200 on board
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164331
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Yemen at breaking point as UN envoy urges action to end suffering https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164321
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
Yemen cannot endure more years of division, economic collapse and human suffering, the UNrCOs top official on the crisis told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that rCLtime is not on our side.rCY
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Famine stalks two counties in South Sudan as fragile peace is threatened https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164311
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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rCyNo Ocean Declaration without small islandsrCO: Delegates push for inclusion as UN summit nears end
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164306
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
With one day remaining before the conclusion of the Third UN Ocean Conference, delegates in Nice are preparing for the adoption of the summitrCOs 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.
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Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164301
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 planetrCOs fastest-growing environmental threats: plastic pollution. 
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Decades of memories and loss rCo searching for the missing in Syria https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164296
June 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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rCySmart gridrCO helps accelerate energy transition in Indonesia https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164576
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
Renewable energy plants are being built across Indonesia, but for their electricity to reach consumers, a modernization of the electricity grid is necessary. 
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Ahead of UN summit, countries finalise landmark rCyCompromiso de SevillarCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164591
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo though without the participation of the United States, which withdrew from the negotiations and announced it will not attend the conference.
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Human Rights Council hears alarming updates on executions in Iran and global civic space crackdown
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164586
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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Guterres renews call for Israel-Iran ceasefire https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164571
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres said on Wednesday he remains rCLprofoundly alarmedrCY by the ongoing military escalation between Israel and Iran, as the sides continued to trade airstrikes.  
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Power of football inspires team effort towards development goals https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164561
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo a world fair focused on building a sustainable global future.
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Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164556
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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? 
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UN rights office rCyhorrifiedrCO by deadly violence at Gaza food distribution sites
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164551
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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UN relief chief calls for solidarity, with humanitarians rCyliterally under attackrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164546
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
With the humanitarian sector rCLunder-funded, overstretched, and literally under attackrCY as crises continue in Gaza, Sudan and beyond, international support is needed more than ever, the UNrCOs top aid official said on Wednesday in Geneva. 
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Civilian deaths in conflict are surging, warns UN human rights office https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164541
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Iran-Israel crisis: UN rights office appeals for urgent de-escalation https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164526
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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rCyHate speech is poison in the well of society,rCO says Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164501
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hate speech is a warning sign and a driver of violence, UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres said ahead of WednesdayrCOs International Day for Countering Hate Speech.
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Israeli actions in Palestinian territories constitute war crimes, Human Rights Council hears
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164496
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ongoing crises in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Sudan are in the spotlight this week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva.
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UN condemns deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian capital as civilian toll mounts https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164486
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
At least 14 civilians were reportedly killed and more than 100 injured in Kyiv overnight into Tuesday, as Russian drone and missile strikes struck multiple Ukrainian cities in one of the heaviest nights of bombing in months.
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rCySyria simply cannot withstand another wave of instability,rCO Security Council hears
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164481
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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Afghan women face near total social, economic and political exclusion https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164476
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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More Gazans killed trying to get food, healthcare near to rCyfull disasterrCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164471
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
GazarCOs 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. 
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From Himalayan melt to drowning shores, children lead the climate fight https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164456
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
From the high Himalayas down to sea level, climate change is no longer a distant threat for children in Nepal and the Maldives rCo it is a daily struggle: landslides tear through mountain villages washing away homes and farms, while rising seas surge over island shorelines, threatening to swallow entire communities.
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DR Congo: Human rights violations could amount to war crimes, UN experts say https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164466
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in Geneva on Monday.
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Guterres to launch life-saving campaign strengthening mine action worldwide https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164451
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General is set to launch a global campaign to boost support for disarmament and mine action. 
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UNHCR forced to make deep cuts, despite rising needs worldwide https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164446
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Without urgent funding, global hunger hotspots are set to grow, UN warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164441
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people have fled to neighbouring South Sudan, seeking refuge from escalating violence that has displaced 12.4 million people and plunged over half the Sudanese population into food insecurity. 
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rCyBehind each crisis, people are suffering,rCO T|+rk tells Human Rights Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164436
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Eighty years after the United Nations was established to end war, uphold fundamental human rights and promote justice and international law, those founding principles are increasingly under threat, the UNrCOs human rights chief warned on Monday. 
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Brutal cuts mean brutal choices warns UN relief chief, launching rCysurvival appealrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164421
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Facing the most severe funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian aid, UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Monday announced a rCLhyper-prioritisedrCY appeal for $29 billion to meet urgent global needs. 
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MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Live updates for 16 June https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164411
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
After a weekend of massive strikes and counter-strikes between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the UN's human rights chief, Volker T|+rk 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, thanks for joining us. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here.
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Shaping a better world at Expo 2025 in Japan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164341
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
How can we build a fairer, more peaceful world while safeguarding the planet? ThatrCOs the powerful question at the heart of the United Nations Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
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Security Council meets in emergency session over Iran-Israel conflict, amid strikes and counterstrikes
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164401
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
IsraelrCOs 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.
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Societies grappling with a rCysilent but growingrCO prison crisis https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164396
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect rCo fuelling calls for urgent reform. 
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World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164386
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk said on Friday. 
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Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164376
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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UN ocean summit in Nice closes with wave of commitments https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164381
June 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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rCyWe are at a point of no returnrCO: grave violations against children surge for third year
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164646
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.  
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World News in Brief: Global investment plunges, hurricane season in Haiti, rising cholera and hunger in South Sudan
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164631
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Global investment fell a full 11 per cent to $1.5 trillion last year rCo itrCOs a huge blow for developing nations, the UN trade agency, UNCTAD, said on Thursday.
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World Refugee Day: telling their stories https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164626
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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). 
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Long after the guns fall silent, conflict-related sexual violence leaves lasting scars
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164621
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo echoing across generations. 
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UN warns of mounting humanitarian toll as Israel-Iran hostilities continue https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164616
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Monitoring Iran and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energyrCo the IAEA's role explained
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164611
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Just days before Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran, the UN watchdog agency monitoring IranrCOs nuclear activities warned that the country was in violation of its non-proliferation commitments. 
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Development is rCythe first line of defense against conflict,rCO Guterres tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164601
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 Ant||nio Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday. 
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Gaza: As last fuel supplies run out, aid teams warn of catastrophe https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164596
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 100 days into IsraelrCOs complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only rCLhours awayrCY from shutting down.
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rCySmart gridrCO helps accelerate energy transition in Indonesia https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164576
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
Renewable energy plants are being built across Indonesia, but for their electricity to reach consumers, a modernization of the electricity grid is necessary. 
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Ahead of UN summit, countries finalise landmark rCyCompromiso de SevillarCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164591
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo though without the participation of the United States, which withdrew from the negotiations and announced it will not attend the conference.
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Human Rights Council hears alarming updates on executions in Iran and global civic space crackdown
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164586
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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Guterres renews call for Israel-Iran ceasefire https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164571
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres said on Wednesday he remains rCLprofoundly alarmedrCY by the ongoing military escalation between Israel and Iran, as the sides continued to trade airstrikes.  
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Power of football inspires team effort towards development goals https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164561
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo a world fair focused on building a sustainable global future.
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Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164556
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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? 
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UN rights office rCyhorrifiedrCO by deadly violence at Gaza food distribution sites
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164551
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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UN relief chief calls for solidarity, with humanitarians rCyliterally under attackrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164546
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
With the humanitarian sector rCLunder-funded, overstretched, and literally under attackrCY as crises continue in Gaza, Sudan and beyond, international support is needed more than ever, the UNrCOs top aid official said on Wednesday in Geneva. 
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Civilian deaths in conflict are surging, warns UN human rights office https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164541
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Iran-Israel crisis: UN rights office appeals for urgent de-escalation https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164526
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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rCyHate speech is poison in the well of society,rCO says Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164501
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hate speech is a warning sign and a driver of violence, UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres said ahead of WednesdayrCOs International Day for Countering Hate Speech.
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Israeli actions in Palestinian territories constitute war crimes, Human Rights Council hears
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164496
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ongoing crises in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Sudan are in the spotlight this week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva.
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UN condemns deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian capital as civilian toll mounts https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164486
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
At least 14 civilians were reportedly killed and more than 100 injured in Kyiv overnight into Tuesday, as Russian drone and missile strikes struck multiple Ukrainian cities in one of the heaviest nights of bombing in months.
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rCySyria simply cannot withstand another wave of instability,rCO Security Council hears
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164481
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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Afghan women face near total social, economic and political exclusion https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164476
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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More Gazans killed trying to get food, healthcare near to rCyfull disasterrCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164471
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
GazarCOs 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. 
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From Himalayan melt to drowning shores, children lead the climate fight https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164456
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
From the high Himalayas down to sea level, climate change is no longer a distant threat for children in Nepal and the Maldives rCo it is a daily struggle: landslides tear through mountain villages washing away homes and farms, while rising seas surge over island shorelines, threatening to swallow entire communities.
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DR Congo: Human rights violations could amount to war crimes, UN experts say https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164466
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in Geneva on Monday.
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Guterres to launch life-saving campaign strengthening mine action worldwide https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164451
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General is set to launch a global campaign to boost support for disarmament and mine action. 
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UNHCR forced to make deep cuts, despite rising needs worldwide https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164446
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Without urgent funding, global hunger hotspots are set to grow, UN warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164441
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people have fled to neighbouring South Sudan, seeking refuge from escalating violence that has displaced 12.4 million people and plunged over half the Sudanese population into food insecurity. 
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rCyBehind each crisis, people are suffering,rCO T|+rk tells Human Rights Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164436
June 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Eighty years after the United Nations was established to end war, uphold fundamental human rights and promote justice and international law, those founding principles are increasingly under threat, the UNrCOs human rights chief warned on Monday. 
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Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164531
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
A growing network of online communities known collectively as the rCLmanosphererCY 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. 
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From the Global South to the stars: A new space race https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164681
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Ukraine: Security Council hears of escalating attacks, diplomatic developments https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164726
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, where intensified fighting continues, affecting new areas and prompting further displacement. 
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rCyA fire no one can controlrCO: UN warns of spiralling Iran-Israel war https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164721
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
The world stands on the edge of catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres warned on Friday, as IsraelrCOs military campaign inside Iran intensifies and strikes on nuclear facilities threaten to trigger a catastrophe.
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UN Peacebuilding Commission rCymore needed than everrCO amid rising conflict https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164716
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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WHO warns of a health financing emergency https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164706
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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).
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For too long, rCyunbound horrorsrCO have unfolded in Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164701
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hostilities continue to escalate across SudanrCOs North Darfur and Kordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous.
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From Syria, UN refugee chief calls for greater solidarity with displaced people https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164671
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
Although record numbers of people rCo over 122 million worldwide rCo have been uprooted due to war, violence and persecution, their ability to find safety and support is threatened more than ever. 
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Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164656
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: rCyGive peace a chancerCO UN chief urges Israel and Iran
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164651
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCLwe are on course to chaosrCY if the war widens rCLwhich could ignite a fire that no one can can control.rCY UN News app users can follow here.
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rCyWe are at a point of no returnrCO: Grave violations against children surge for third year
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164646
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.  
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World News in Brief: Global investment plunges, hurricane season in Haiti, rising cholera and hunger in South Sudan
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164631
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Global investment fell a full 11 per cent to $1.5 trillion last year rCo itrCOs a huge blow for developing nations, the UN trade agency, UNCTAD, said on Thursday.
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World Refugee Day: telling their stories https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164626
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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). 
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Long after the guns fall silent, conflict-related sexual violence leaves lasting scars
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164621
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo echoing across generations. 
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UN warns of mounting humanitarian toll as Israel-Iran hostilities continue https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164616
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Monitoring Iran and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energyrCo the IAEA's role explained
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164611
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Just days before Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran, the UN watchdog agency monitoring IranrCOs nuclear activities warned that the country was in violation of its non-proliferation commitments. 
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Development is rCythe first line of defence against conflict,rCO Guterres tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164601
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 Ant||nio Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday. 
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Gaza: As last fuel supplies run out, aid teams warn of catastrophe https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164596
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 100 days into IsraelrCOs complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only rCLhours awayrCY from shutting down.
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rCySmart gridrCO helps accelerate energy transition in Indonesia https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164576
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
Renewable energy plants are being built across Indonesia, but for their electricity to reach consumers, a modernization of the electricity grid is necessary. 
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Ahead of UN summit, countries finalise landmark rCyCompromiso de SevillarCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164591
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo though without the participation of the United States, which withdrew from the negotiations and announced it will not attend the conference.
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Human Rights Council hears alarming updates on executions in Iran and global civic space crackdown
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164586
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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Guterres renews call for Israel-Iran ceasefire https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164571
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres said on Wednesday he remains rCLprofoundly alarmedrCY by the ongoing military escalation between Israel and Iran, as the sides continued to trade airstrikes.  
--------------------
Power of football inspires team effort towards development goals https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164561
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo a world fair focused on building a sustainable global future.
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Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164556
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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? 
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UN rights office rCyhorrifiedrCO by deadly violence at Gaza food distribution sites
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164551
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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UN relief chief calls for solidarity, with humanitarians rCyliterally under attackrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164546
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
With the humanitarian sector rCLunder-funded, overstretched, and literally under attackrCY as crises continue in Gaza, Sudan and beyond, international support is needed more than ever, the UNrCOs top aid official said on Wednesday in Geneva. 
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Civilian deaths in conflict are surging, warns UN human rights office https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164541
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Iran-Israel crisis: UN rights office appeals for urgent de-escalation https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164526
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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rCyHate speech is poison in the well of society,rCO says Guterres https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164501
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hate speech is a warning sign and a driver of violence, UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres said ahead of WednesdayrCOs International Day for Countering Hate Speech.
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Israeli actions in Palestinian territories constitute war crimes, Human Rights Council hears
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164496
June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
The ongoing crises in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Sudan are in the spotlight this week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva.
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UN chief rCygravely alarmedrCO by US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164741
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres described the United StatesrCO bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a rCLdangerous escalationrCY on Saturday following eight days of deadly strikes and counter strikes between Tehran and Tel Aviv.
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rCyOne Earth, One HealthrCO: Yoga Day provides respite in a tumultuous world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164736
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
In an age marked by conflicts, disease, dysfunction and mental health challenges, yoga offers a steady, time-trusted path to help find calm and harmony within rCo and without.
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UN reiterates call for urgent de-escalation amid Iran-Israel conflict, worsening Gaza crisis
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164731
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
Senior UN officials reiterated an appeal for urgent restraint on Saturday as conflict spiral between Israel and Iran, amid a wider regional crisis exacerbated by IsraelrCOs war in Gaza and the worsening humanitarian situation facing Palestinian civilians.
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Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164531
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
A growing network of online communities known collectively as the rCLmanosphererCY 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. 
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From the Global South to the stars: A new space race https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164681
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Ukraine: Security Council hears of escalating attacks, diplomatic developments https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164726
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, where intensified fighting continues, affecting new areas and prompting further displacement. 
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rCyA fire no one can controlrCO: UN warns of spiralling Iran-Israel war https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164721
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
The world stands on the edge of catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres warned on Friday, as IsraelrCOs military campaign inside Iran intensifies and strikes on nuclear facilities threaten to trigger a catastrophe.
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UN Peacebuilding Commission rCymore needed than everrCO amid rising conflict https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164716
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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WHO warns of a health financing emergency https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164706
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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).
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For too long, rCyunbound horrorsrCO have unfolded in Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164701
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hostilities continue to escalate across SudanrCOs North Darfur and Kordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous.
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From Syria, UN refugee chief calls for greater solidarity with displaced people https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164671
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
Although record numbers of people rCo over 122 million worldwide rCo have been uprooted due to war, violence and persecution, their ability to find safety and support is threatened more than ever. 
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Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164656
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: rCyGive peace a chancerCO UN chief urges Israel and Iran
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164651
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCLwe are on course to chaosrCY if the war widens rCLwhich could ignite a fire that no one can can control.rCY UN News app users can follow here.
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rCyWe are at a point of no returnrCO: Grave violations against children surge for third year
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164646
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.  
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World News in Brief: Global investment plunges, hurricane season in Haiti, rising cholera and hunger in South Sudan
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164631
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Global investment fell a full 11 per cent to $1.5 trillion last year rCo itrCOs a huge blow for developing nations, the UN trade agency, UNCTAD, said on Thursday.
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World Refugee Day: telling their stories https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164626
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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). 
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Long after the guns fall silent, conflict-related sexual violence leaves lasting scars
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164621
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo echoing across generations. 
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UN warns of mounting humanitarian toll as Israel-Iran hostilities continue https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164616
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Monitoring Iran and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energyrCo the IAEA's role explained
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164611
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Just days before Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran, the UN watchdog agency monitoring IranrCOs nuclear activities warned that the country was in violation of its non-proliferation commitments. 
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Development is rCythe first line of defence against conflict,rCO Guterres tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164601
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 Ant||nio Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday. 
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Gaza: As last fuel supplies run out, aid teams warn of catastrophe https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164596
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 100 days into IsraelrCOs complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only rCLhours awayrCY from shutting down.
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rCySmart gridrCO helps accelerate energy transition in Indonesia https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164576
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
Renewable energy plants are being built across Indonesia, but for their electricity to reach consumers, a modernization of the electricity grid is necessary. 
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Ahead of UN summit, countries finalise landmark rCyCompromiso de SevillarCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164591
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo though without the participation of the United States, which withdrew from the negotiations and announced it will not attend the conference.
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Human Rights Council hears alarming updates on executions in Iran and global civic space crackdown
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164586
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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Guterres renews call for Israel-Iran ceasefire https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164571
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres said on Wednesday he remains rCLprofoundly alarmedrCY by the ongoing military escalation between Israel and Iran, as the sides continued to trade airstrikes.  
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Power of football inspires team effort towards development goals https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164561
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo a world fair focused on building a sustainable global future.
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Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164556
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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? 
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UN rights office rCyhorrifiedrCO by deadly violence at Gaza food distribution sites
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164551
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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UN relief chief calls for solidarity, with humanitarians rCyliterally under attackrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164546
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
With the humanitarian sector rCLunder-funded, overstretched, and literally under attackrCY as crises continue in Gaza, Sudan and beyond, international support is needed more than ever, the UNrCOs top aid official said on Wednesday in Geneva. 
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Civilian deaths in conflict are surging, warns UN human rights office https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164541
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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INTERVIEW: Visitors to Expo 2025 appreciate rCypositive visionrCO of UN https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164711
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
Visitors to Expo 2025, a world fair currently being held in Osaka, Japan, appreciate the rCLpositive visonrCY of a shared global future promoted by the United Nations; thatrCOs according to Naomi Ichikawa, Director of the UN Pavilion.
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Gaza: UN warns of rCyweaponised hungerrCO and growing death toll amid food chaos
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164761
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the deepening crisis in Gaza, where civilians are being killed daily while trying to access food, water and medical care.
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US strikes on IranrCOs nuclear sites rCymarks perilous turnrCO: Diplomacy must prevail, says Guterres
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164756
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday that massive overnight strikes by the United States on IranrCOs nuclear facilities only increase the risk of a wider war and rCLserious damage to the international order.rCY
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: rCyDiplomacy must prevailrCO over Iran following US military intervention, urges Guterres
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164746
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General told the Security Council on Sunday that the bombing of IranrCOs nuclear sites by the United States marks a rCLperilous turnrCY, warning that the region cannot endure yet another rCLcycle of destruction.rCY Ant||nio Guterres said the must be an immediate ceasefire and returned to rCLserious, sustained negotiations.rCY WerCOll have live updates from our Meetings Coverage team below and app users can follow here.
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Guterres condemns deadly attack on peacekeepers in Central African Republic https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164751
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned a deadly attack on peacekeepers serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, or CAR, which claimed the life of a Zambian peacekeeper and left another wounded.
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What is financing for development? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164691
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
According to the United Nations, the world needs an extra $4 trillion every year to tackle some of the worldrCOs biggest challenges rCo ending poverty and hunger, fighting climate change, and reducing inequality. 
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UN chief rCygravely alarmedrCO by US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164741
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres described the United StatesrCO bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a rCLdangerous escalationrCY on Saturday following eight days of deadly strikes and counter strikes between Tehran and Tel Aviv.
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rCyOne Earth, One HealthrCO: Yoga Day provides respite in a tumultuous world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164736
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
In an age marked by conflicts, disease, dysfunction and mental health challenges, yoga offers a steady, time-trusted path to help find calm and harmony within rCo and without.
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UN reiterates call for urgent de-escalation amid Iran-Israel conflict, worsening Gaza crisis
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164731
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
Senior UN officials reiterated an appeal for urgent restraint on Saturday as conflict spiral between Israel and Iran, amid a wider regional crisis exacerbated by IsraelrCOs war in Gaza and the worsening humanitarian situation facing Palestinian civilians.
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Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164531
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
A growing network of online communities known collectively as the rCLmanosphererCY 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. 
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From the Global South to the stars: A new space race https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164681
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Ukraine: Security Council hears of escalating attacks, diplomatic developments https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164726
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, where intensified fighting continues, affecting new areas and prompting further displacement. 
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rCyA fire no one can controlrCO: UN warns of spiralling Iran-Israel war https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164721
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
The world stands on the edge of catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres warned on Friday, as IsraelrCOs military campaign inside Iran intensifies and strikes on nuclear facilities threaten to trigger a catastrophe.
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UN Peacebuilding Commission rCymore needed than everrCO amid rising conflict https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164716
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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WHO warns of a health financing emergency https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164706
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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).
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For too long, rCyunbound horrorsrCO have unfolded in Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164701
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hostilities continue to escalate across SudanrCOs North Darfur and Kordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous.
--------------------
From Syria, UN refugee chief calls for greater solidarity with displaced people https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164671
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
Although record numbers of people rCo over 122 million worldwide rCo have been uprooted due to war, violence and persecution, their ability to find safety and support is threatened more than ever. 
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Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164656
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: rCyGive peace a chancerCO UN chief urges Israel and Iran
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164651
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCLwe are on course to chaosrCY if the war widens rCLwhich could ignite a fire that no one can can control.rCY UN News app users can follow here.
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rCyWe are at a point of no returnrCO: Grave violations against children surge for third year
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164646
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.  
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World News in Brief: Global investment plunges, hurricane season in Haiti, rising cholera and hunger in South Sudan
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164631
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Global investment fell a full 11 per cent to $1.5 trillion last year rCo itrCOs a huge blow for developing nations, the UN trade agency, UNCTAD, said on Thursday.
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World Refugee Day: telling their stories https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164626
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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). 
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Long after the guns fall silent, conflict-related sexual violence leaves lasting scars
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164621
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo echoing across generations. 
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UN warns of mounting humanitarian toll as Israel-Iran hostilities continue https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164616
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Monitoring Iran and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energyrCo the IAEA's role explained
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164611
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
Just days before Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran, the UN watchdog agency monitoring IranrCOs nuclear activities warned that the country was in violation of its non-proliferation commitments. 
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Development is rCythe first line of defence against conflict,rCO Guterres tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164601
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 Ant||nio Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday. 
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Gaza: As last fuel supplies run out, aid teams warn of catastrophe https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164596
June 19, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 100 days into IsraelrCOs complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only rCLhours awayrCY from shutting down.
--------------------
rCySmart gridrCO helps accelerate energy transition in Indonesia https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164576
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
Renewable energy plants are being built across Indonesia, but for their electricity to reach consumers, a modernization of the electricity grid is necessary. 
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Ahead of UN summit, countries finalise landmark rCyCompromiso de SevillarCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164591
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCo though without the participation of the United States, which withdrew from the negotiations and announced it will not attend the conference.
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Human Rights Council hears alarming updates on executions in Iran and global civic space crackdown
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164586
June 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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UN80 Initiative: What it is rCo and why it matters to the world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164836
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In a world grappling with growing crises, deepening inequalities, and eroding trust in global institutions, the United Nations has launched an ambitious effort to strengthen how it serves people everywhere. The UN80 Initiative, unveiled in March by Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres, is a system-wide push to streamline operations, sharpen impact, and reaffirm the UNrCOs relevance for a rapidly changing world.
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80 years later, the UN Charter is a rCyliving miracle,rCO Secretary-General says
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164831
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In front of a multimedia exhibit at United Nations Headquarters entitled rCLReviving the Spirit of San Francisco,rCY Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres welcomed home the UN Charter which was signed in 1945 in the Californian city. 
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Guterres condemns Iran attack on US airbase in Qatar https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164826
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres is rCLdeeply alarmedrCY by the further escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, his Spokesperson said in a statement on Monday. 
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Bearing the brunt of war: UNICEF chief meets some of SudanrCOs 700,000 child refugees crossing into Chad
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164821
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since fighting erupted in Sudan in April 2023, more than two million children have been displaced by the brutal war between rival militaries there.
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Human Rights Council hears concerns over displacement, genocide risks and migrant trafficking
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164816
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
On day six of the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, the Council heard urgent updates on rising internal displacement driven by organised crime, escalating genocide risks and the trafficking of women in the domestic work sector.
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Tobacco control efforts protect three-quarters of the worldrCOs population, WHO report finds
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164806
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
Tobacco use still claims over seven million lives a year, the World Health Organization warned on Monday, calling for greater efforts to limit its use amid rising interference from the global tobacco industry.
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Senior envoy warns Iran-Israel conflict is deepening crisis in Afghanistan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164771
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
Afghanistan is already grappling with immense humanitarian and economic challenges and growing instability in the wider region following airstrikes by Israel and the United States in Iran is compounding the situation, the UNrCOs top envoy in the country told the Security Council on Monday. 
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UN condemns rCyheinousrCO terrorist attack at Damascus church that killed dozens
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164786
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations has condemned a suicide bombing on Sunday at a Damascus church that killed at least 25 worshippers, including women and children during mass, as a rCLheinous crimerCY.
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Asia is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164781
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In April 2024, China broke the average temperature record that month. The following month, it was the same - and then again in August. And September. And November.
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Yemen: Nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity in some southern areas
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164776
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
The food security situation in Government-controlled areas of southern Yemen is dire, with nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity and struggling to find their next meal.
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Iran-Israel crisis: IAEA chief calls for access to damaged nuclear sites https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164766
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
After surprise US bombing raids on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities over the weekend, the head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog on Monday appealed for immediate access to the targeted sites to assess the damage that is likely rCLvery significantrCY.
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INTERVIEW: Visitors to Expo 2025 appreciate rCypositive visionrCO of UN https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164711
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
Visitors to Expo 2025, a world fair currently being held in Osaka, Japan, appreciate the rCLpositive visonrCY of a shared global future promoted by the United Nations; thatrCOs according to Naomi Ichikawa, Director of the UN Pavilion.
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Gaza: UN warns of rCyweaponised hungerrCO and growing death toll amid food chaos
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164761
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the deepening crisis in Gaza, where civilians are being killed daily while trying to access food, water and medical care.
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US strikes on IranrCOs nuclear sites rCymarks perilous turnrCO: Diplomacy must prevail, says Guterres
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164756
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday that massive overnight strikes by the United States on IranrCOs nuclear facilities only increase the risk of a wider war and rCLserious damage to the international order.rCY
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: rCyDiplomacy must prevailrCO over Iran following US military intervention, urges Guterres
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164746
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General told the Security Council on Sunday that the bombing of IranrCOs nuclear sites by the United States marks a rCLperilous turnrCY, warning that the region cannot endure yet another rCLcycle of destruction.rCY Ant||nio Guterres said the must be an immediate ceasefire and returned to rCLserious, sustained negotiations.rCY WerCOll have live updates from our Meetings Coverage team below and app users can follow here.
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Guterres condemns deadly attack on peacekeepers in Central African Republic https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164751
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned a deadly attack on peacekeepers serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, or CAR, which claimed the life of a Zambian peacekeeper and left another wounded.
--------------------
What is financing for development? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164691
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
According to the United Nations, the world needs an extra $4 trillion every year to tackle some of the worldrCOs biggest challenges rCo ending poverty and hunger, fighting climate change, and reducing inequality. 
--------------------
UN chief rCygravely alarmedrCO by US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164741
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres described the United StatesrCO bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a rCLdangerous escalationrCY on Saturday following eight days of deadly strikes and counter strikes between Tehran and Tel Aviv.
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rCyOne Earth, One HealthrCO: Yoga Day provides respite in a tumultuous world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164736
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
In an age marked by conflicts, disease, dysfunction and mental health challenges, yoga offers a steady, time-trusted path to help find calm and harmony within rCo and without.
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UN reiterates call for urgent de-escalation amid Iran-Israel conflict, worsening Gaza crisis
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164731
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
Senior UN officials reiterated an appeal for urgent restraint on Saturday as conflict spiral between Israel and Iran, amid a wider regional crisis exacerbated by IsraelrCOs war in Gaza and the worsening humanitarian situation facing Palestinian civilians.
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Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164531
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
A growing network of online communities known collectively as the rCLmanosphererCY 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. 
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From the Global South to the stars: A new space race https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164681
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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Ukraine: Security Council hears of escalating attacks, diplomatic developments https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164726
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, where intensified fighting continues, affecting new areas and prompting further displacement. 
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rCyA fire no one can controlrCO: UN warns of spiralling Iran-Israel war https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164721
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
The world stands on the edge of catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres warned on Friday, as IsraelrCOs military campaign inside Iran intensifies and strikes on nuclear facilities threaten to trigger a catastrophe.
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UN Peacebuilding Commission rCymore needed than everrCO amid rising conflict https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164716
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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.
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WHO warns of a health financing emergency https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164706
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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).
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For too long, rCyunbound horrorsrCO have unfolded in Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164701
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
Hostilities continue to escalate across SudanrCOs North Darfur and Kordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous.
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From Syria, UN refugee chief calls for greater solidarity with displaced people https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164671
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
Although record numbers of people rCo over 122 million worldwide rCo have been uprooted due to war, violence and persecution, their ability to find safety and support is threatened more than ever. 
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Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164656
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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. 
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MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: rCyGive peace a chancerCO UN chief urges Israel and Iran
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164651
June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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 rCLwe are on course to chaosrCY if the war widens rCLwhich could ignite a fire that no one can can control.rCY UN News app users can follow here.
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$1 towards a girlrCOs education = $3 for the global economy: That's how development works
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164856
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Helping those with less isnrCOt charity rCo itrCOs a shared investment in a better future. Yet global development financing is under strain. An upcoming UN conference in Sevilla, Spain, aims to change that by mobilizing large-scale investment for a more just and sustainable world.
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UN urges renewed diplomacy on Iran nuclear deal, hails Tehran-Tel Aviv ceasefire as rCysignificant achievementrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164901
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
A fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States between Iran and Israel appears to be holding, marking a tentative halt to a dangerous regional escalation that included airstrikes, retaliatory missile attacks and mounting civilian casualties. 
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Bold new initiative aims to strengthen and improve the UN, senior officials tell Member States
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164896
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Member States heard on Tuesday how the UN is progressing with a new plan to ensure the world body remains effective, cost-efficient and responsive to the billions of people it serves. 
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Aftermath of Tripoli clashes puts LibyarCOs fragile stability to the test https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164891
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Libya once again stands at a critical juncture in its political transition, after armed clashes erupted in Tripoli last month, further destabilising the country, the UN Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.
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World News in Brief: T|+rk speaks out on sexual violence, Brazil floods update, Nicaraguan human rights violations
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164886
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Gender-based violence is rising - especially in conflict rCo something which is a rCLshameless repudiation of the basic rules of warfare,rCY according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk.
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rCyStill reelingrCO: Myanmar quakes worsen humanitarian crisis in fractured country
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164881
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly three months after MyanmarrCOs strongest earthquake in a century, more than six million people remain in urgent need of assistance, as the disaster compounds a humanitarian crisis driven by years of conflict, political turmoil and mass displacement.
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Political Affairs chief hails Iran-Israel ceasefire as rCysignificant achievementrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164876
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Security Council met Tuesday in New York over the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action put in place in 2015 to prevent Iran from weaponising its ambitious nuclear programme, which has been in effective limbo since the US withdrawal in 2018 and IranrCOs rejection of parts of the deal. UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo described the US-brokered ceasefire overnight between Israel and Iran as a rCLsignificant achievementrCY and rCLan opportunity to avoid a catastrophic esca...
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Power to the people; funding community-led development in Somalia https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164871
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
A story of grassroots persistence in Somalia could serve as a powerful reminder of the impact of innovative financing mechanisms as the international community meets in Spain to discuss how to fund global sustainable development.
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Resettlement changed her life. Now sherCOs fighting for others to have the same chance
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164866
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Once a teenager without legal status or access to education in Afghanistan, Madiha Ali Changezi is now speaking out as a living example of what refugee resettlement can achieve. 
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Guterres urges Iran and Israel to rCyfully respectrCO ceasefire https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164851
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday welcomed the ceasefire announcement between Iran and Israel which was announced on social media overnight by US President Donald Trump.
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Gaza: Over 400 Palestinians killed around private aid hubs, UN rights office says
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164846
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch from controversial new aid hubs in Gaza rCo a likely war crime rCo the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
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What time is it on the Moon? ItrCOs all relativerCa https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164686
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Telling the time on the Moon is more complicated than you might think, but answering the question is becoming more important amid a resurgent interest in lunar exploration. The UN is helping to ensure the Moon is governed in a coordinated and peaceful way, and agreeing on a time zone is a central element of international discussions.
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UN80 Initiative: What it is rCo and why it matters to the world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164836
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In a world grappling with growing crises, deepening inequalities, and eroding trust in global institutions, the United Nations has launched an ambitious effort to strengthen how it serves people everywhere. The UN80 Initiative, unveiled in March by Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres, is a system-wide push to streamline operations, sharpen impact, and reaffirm the UNrCOs relevance for a rapidly changing world.
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80 years later, the UN Charter is a rCyliving miracle,rCO Secretary-General says
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164831
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In front of a multimedia exhibit at United Nations Headquarters entitled rCLReviving the Spirit of San Francisco,rCY Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres welcomed home the UN Charter which was signed in 1945 in the Californian city. 
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Guterres condemns Iran attack on US airbase in Qatar https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164826
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres is rCLdeeply alarmedrCY by the further escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, his Spokesperson said in a statement on Monday. 
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Bearing the brunt of war: UNICEF chief meets some of SudanrCOs 700,000 child refugees crossing into Chad
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164821
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since fighting erupted in Sudan in April 2023, more than two million children have been displaced by the brutal war between rival militaries there.
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Human Rights Council hears concerns over displacement, genocide risks and migrant trafficking
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164816
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
On day six of the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, the Council heard urgent updates on rising internal displacement driven by organised crime, escalating genocide risks and the trafficking of women in the domestic work sector.
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Tobacco control efforts protect three-quarters of the worldrCOs population, WHO report finds
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164806
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
Tobacco use still claims over seven million lives a year, the World Health Organization warned on Monday, calling for greater efforts to limit its use amid rising interference from the global tobacco industry.
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Senior envoy warns Iran-Israel conflict is deepening crisis in Afghanistan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164771
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
Afghanistan is already grappling with immense humanitarian and economic challenges and growing instability in the wider region following airstrikes by Israel and the United States in Iran is compounding the situation, the UNrCOs top envoy in the country told the Security Council on Monday. 
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UN condemns rCyheinousrCO terrorist attack at Damascus church that killed dozens
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164786
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations has condemned a suicide bombing on Sunday at a Damascus church that killed at least 25 worshippers, including women and children during mass, as a rCLheinous crimerCY.
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Asia is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164781
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In April 2024, China broke the average temperature record that month. The following month, it was the same - and then again in August. And September. And November.
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Yemen: Nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity in some southern areas
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164776
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
The food security situation in Government-controlled areas of southern Yemen is dire, with nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity and struggling to find their next meal.
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Iran-Israel crisis: IAEA chief calls for access to damaged nuclear sites https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164766
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
After surprise US bombing raids on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities over the weekend, the head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog on Monday appealed for immediate access to the targeted sites to assess the damage that is likely rCLvery significantrCY.
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INTERVIEW: Visitors to Expo 2025 appreciate rCypositive visionrCO of UN https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164711
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
Visitors to Expo 2025, a world fair currently being held in Osaka, Japan, appreciate the rCLpositive visonrCY of a shared global future promoted by the United Nations; thatrCOs according to Naomi Ichikawa, Director of the UN Pavilion.
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Gaza: UN warns of rCyweaponised hungerrCO and growing death toll amid food chaos
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164761
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the deepening crisis in Gaza, where civilians are being killed daily while trying to access food, water and medical care.
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US strikes on IranrCOs nuclear sites rCymarks perilous turnrCO: Diplomacy must prevail, says Guterres
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164756
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday that massive overnight strikes by the United States on IranrCOs nuclear facilities only increase the risk of a wider war and rCLserious damage to the international order.rCY
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: rCyDiplomacy must prevailrCO over Iran following US military intervention, urges Guterres
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164746
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General told the Security Council on Sunday that the bombing of IranrCOs nuclear sites by the United States marks a rCLperilous turnrCY, warning that the region cannot endure yet another rCLcycle of destruction.rCY Ant||nio Guterres said the must be an immediate ceasefire and returned to rCLserious, sustained negotiations.rCY WerCOll have live updates from our Meetings Coverage team below and app users can follow here.
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Guterres condemns deadly attack on peacekeepers in Central African Republic https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164751
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned a deadly attack on peacekeepers serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, or CAR, which claimed the life of a Zambian peacekeeper and left another wounded.
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What is financing for development? https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164691
June 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
According to the United Nations, the world needs an extra $4 trillion every year to tackle some of the worldrCOs biggest challenges rCo ending poverty and hunger, fighting climate change, and reducing inequality. 
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UN chief rCygravely alarmedrCO by US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164741
June 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres described the United StatesrCO bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a rCLdangerous escalationrCY on Saturday following eight days of deadly strikes and counter strikes between Tehran and Tel Aviv.
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Despite the fall of Assad, the illicit drug trade in Syria is far from over https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164696
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East. 
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rCyFuel for Gaza is a matter of life and death,rCO UN warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164946
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday. 
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UN rights mission condemns civilian toll in deadly missile strikes on Ukraine https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164941
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of civilians rCo including children and school staff rCo were killed or wounded in Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities this week, in what UN human rights monitors described as a rCLforeseeablerCY tragedy caused by strikes on populated areas.
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Sevilla conference on development financing shows optimism for multilateralism https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164936
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
ItrCOs been 10 years since the Addis Ababa Action Agenda was established to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the worldrCOs roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet and tackling inequalities.
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Iran: Return to inspections top priority for UN nuclear agency https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164931
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that his rCLnumber one priorityrCY is for its inspectors to return to IranrCOs nuclear sites to evaluate damage caused by recent bombing and to verify stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. 
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Responsibility to Protect: An unfulfilled promise, a ray of hope https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164926
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has warned that the world today is failing to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes, calling for a renewed global commitment to the Responsibility to Protect rCo a principle adopted two decades ago that remains, in his words, rCLa moral imperativerCY and rCLan unfulfilled promise.rCY
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rCyA moral failurerCO: Security Council hears about grave violations against children caught in war
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164921
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Sila, a young woman from Idlib in Syria, was three-years-old, she woke up to missiles falling around her, forcing her and her family to flee their home.  
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Energy access has improved, but more funding is needed to address disparities: WHO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164906
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Although nearly 92 per cent of the global population now has basic access to electricity, more than 666 million people still live without it, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to urge greater financial support for renewable energy. 
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$1 towards a girlrCOs education = $3 for the global economy: That's how development works
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164856
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Helping those with less isnrCOt charity rCo itrCOs a shared investment in a better future. Yet global development financing is under strain. An upcoming UN conference in Sevilla, Spain, aims to change that by mobilizing large-scale investment for a more just and sustainable world.
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UN urges renewed diplomacy on Iran nuclear deal, hails Tehran-Tel Aviv ceasefire as rCysignificant achievementrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164901
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
A fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States between Iran and Israel appears to be holding, marking a tentative halt to a dangerous regional escalation that included airstrikes, retaliatory missile attacks and mounting civilian casualties.
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Bold new initiative aims to strengthen and improve the UN, senior officials tell Member States
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164896
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Member States heard on Tuesday how the UN is progressing with a new plan to ensure the world body remains effective, cost-efficient and responsive to the billions of people it serves. 
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Aftermath of Tripoli clashes puts LibyarCOs fragile stability to the test https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164891
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Libya once again stands at a critical juncture in its political transition, after armed clashes erupted in Tripoli last month, further destabilising the country, the UN Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.
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World News in Brief: T|+rk speaks out on sexual violence, Brazil floods update, Nicaraguan human rights violations
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164886
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Gender-based violence is rising - especially in conflict rCo something which is a rCLshameless repudiation of the basic rules of warfare,rCY according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk.
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rCyStill reelingrCO: Myanmar quakes worsen humanitarian crisis in fractured country
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164881
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly three months after MyanmarrCOs strongest earthquake in a century, more than six million people remain in urgent need of assistance, as the disaster compounds a humanitarian crisis driven by years of conflict, political turmoil and mass displacement.
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Political Affairs chief hails Iran-Israel ceasefire as rCysignificant achievementrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164876
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Security Council met Tuesday in New York over the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action put in place in 2015 to prevent Iran from weaponising its ambitious nuclear programme, which has been in effective limbo since the US withdrawal in 2018 and IranrCOs rejection of parts of the deal. UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo described the US-brokered ceasefire overnight between Israel and Iran as a rCLsignificant achievementrCY and rCLan opportunity to avoid a catastrophic esca...
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Power to the people; funding community-led development in Somalia https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164871
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
A story of grassroots persistence in Somalia could serve as a powerful reminder of the impact of innovative financing mechanisms as the international community meets in Spain to discuss how to fund global sustainable development.
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Resettlement changed her life. Now sherCOs fighting for others to have the same chance
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164866
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Once a teenager without legal status or access to education in Afghanistan, Madiha Ali Changezi is now speaking out as a living example of what refugee resettlement can achieve. 
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Guterres urges Iran and Israel to rCyfully respectrCO ceasefire https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164851
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday welcomed the ceasefire announcement between Iran and Israel which was announced on social media overnight by US President Donald Trump.
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Gaza: Over 400 Palestinians killed around private aid hubs, UN rights office says
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164846
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch from controversial new aid hubs in Gaza rCo a likely war crime rCo the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
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What time is it on the Moon? ItrCOs all relativerCa https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164686
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Telling the time on the Moon is more complicated than you might think, but answering the question is becoming more important amid a resurgent interest in lunar exploration. The UN is helping to ensure the Moon is governed in a coordinated and peaceful way, and agreeing on a time zone is a central element of international discussions.
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UN80 Initiative: What it is rCo and why it matters to the world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164836
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In a world grappling with growing crises, deepening inequalities, and eroding trust in global institutions, the United Nations has launched an ambitious effort to strengthen how it serves people everywhere. The UN80 Initiative, unveiled in March by Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres, is a system-wide push to streamline operations, sharpen impact, and reaffirm the UNrCOs relevance for a rapidly changing world.
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80 years later, the UN Charter is a rCyliving miracle,rCO Secretary-General says
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164831
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In front of a multimedia exhibit at United Nations Headquarters entitled rCLReviving the Spirit of San Francisco,rCY Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres welcomed home the UN Charter which was signed in 1945 in the Californian city. 
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Guterres condemns Iran attack on US airbase in Qatar https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164826
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres is rCLdeeply alarmedrCY by the further escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, his Spokesperson said in a statement on Monday. 
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Bearing the brunt of war: UNICEF chief meets some of SudanrCOs 700,000 child refugees crossing into Chad
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164821
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
Since fighting erupted in Sudan in April 2023, more than two million children have been displaced by the brutal war between rival militaries there.
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Human Rights Council hears concerns over displacement, genocide risks and migrant trafficking
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164816
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
On day six of the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, the Council heard urgent updates on rising internal displacement driven by organised crime, escalating genocide risks and the trafficking of women in the domestic work sector.
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Tobacco control efforts protect three-quarters of the worldrCOs population, WHO report finds
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164806
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
Tobacco use still claims over seven million lives a year, the World Health Organization warned on Monday, calling for greater efforts to limit its use amid rising interference from the global tobacco industry.
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Senior envoy warns Iran-Israel conflict is deepening crisis in Afghanistan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164771
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
Afghanistan is already grappling with immense humanitarian and economic challenges and growing instability in the wider region following airstrikes by Israel and the United States in Iran is compounding the situation, the UNrCOs top envoy in the country told the Security Council on Monday. 
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UN condemns rCyheinousrCO terrorist attack at Damascus church that killed dozens
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164786
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations has condemned a suicide bombing on Sunday at a Damascus church that killed at least 25 worshippers, including women and children during mass, as a rCLheinous crimerCY.
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Asia is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164781
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In April 2024, China broke the average temperature record that month. The following month, it was the same - and then again in August. And September. And November.
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Yemen: Nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity in some southern areas
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164776
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
The food security situation in Government-controlled areas of southern Yemen is dire, with nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity and struggling to find their next meal.
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Millions remain invisible rCo but Asia-Pacific leaders pledge change by 2030 https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165001
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than a decade after Asian and Pacific nations launched a campaign to ensure every life is counted, millions across the region still remain rCLinvisiblerCY rCo born, living, and dying without formal recognition.
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Upcoming elections rCycrucial opportunityrCO for Central African Republic, UN top official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164996
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Central African Republic (CAR) prepares for upcoming elections, the country continues to grapple with a fragile security and humanitarian context, the UN Security Council heard on Thursday. 
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Ukraine: Increasing hostilities displace civilians, limit humanitarian access https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164986
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Deadly hostilities continued along the front-line regions of Ukraine on Wednesday, displacing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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DR Congo: Conflict survivors rCyhave been through hell,rCO says UN aid chief https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164981
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UNrCOs top aid official said on Thursday. 
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Eighty years on, UN Charter marked by reflection, resolve rCo and a run https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164976
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
It wasnrCOt an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers rCo from Times Square to East River rCo following a route that traced the shape of rCLUN@80rCY.
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UN calls for restraint after deadly Kenya protests https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164966
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday. 
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UN rights office sounds the alarm over forced displacement in the West Bank https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164971
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, reported on Thursday. 
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rCyOur kids cry for foodrCO: Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164951
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of IsraelrCOs continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners.
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Despite the fall of Assad, the illicit drug trade in Syria is far from over https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164696
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East. 
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rCyFuel for Gaza is a matter of life and death,rCO UN warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164946
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday. 
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UN rights mission condemns civilian toll in deadly missile strikes on Ukraine https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164941
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of civilians rCo including children and school staff rCo were killed or wounded in Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities this week, in what UN human rights monitors described as a rCLforeseeablerCY tragedy caused by strikes on populated areas.
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Sevilla conference on development financing shows optimism for multilateralism https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164936
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
ItrCOs been 10 years since the Addis Ababa Action Agenda was established to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the worldrCOs roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet and tackling inequalities.
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Iran: Return to inspections top priority for UN nuclear agency https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164931
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that his rCLnumber one priorityrCY is for its inspectors to return to IranrCOs nuclear sites to evaluate damage caused by recent bombing and to verify stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. 
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Responsibility to Protect: An unfulfilled promise, a ray of hope https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164926
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has warned that the world today is failing to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes, calling for a renewed global commitment to the Responsibility to Protect rCo a principle adopted two decades ago that remains, in his words, rCLa moral imperativerCY and rCLan unfulfilled promise.rCY
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rCyA moral failurerCO: Security Council hears about grave violations against children caught in war
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164921
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Sila, a young woman from Idlib in Syria, was three years old, she woke up to missiles falling around her, forcing her and her family to flee their home.  
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Energy access has improved, but more funding is needed to address disparities: WHO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164906
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Although nearly 92 per cent of the global population now has basic access to electricity, more than 666 million people still live without it, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to urge greater financial support for renewable energy. 
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$1 towards a girlrCOs education = $3 for the global economy: That's how development works
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164856
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Helping those with less isnrCOt charity rCo itrCOs a shared investment in a better future. Yet global development financing is under strain. An upcoming UN conference in Sevilla, Spain, aims to change that by mobilizing large-scale investment for a more just and sustainable world.
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UN urges renewed diplomacy on Iran nuclear deal, hails Tehran-Tel Aviv ceasefire as rCysignificant achievementrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164901
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
A fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States between Iran and Israel appears to be holding, marking a tentative halt to a dangerous regional escalation that included airstrikes, retaliatory missile attacks and mounting civilian casualties.
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Bold new initiative aims to strengthen and improve the UN, senior officials tell Member States
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164896
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Member States heard on Tuesday how the UN is progressing with a new plan to ensure the world body remains effective, cost-efficient and responsive to the billions of people it serves. 
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Aftermath of Tripoli clashes puts LibyarCOs fragile stability to the test https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164891
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Libya once again stands at a critical juncture in its political transition, after armed clashes erupted in Tripoli last month, further destabilising the country, the UN Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.
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World News in Brief: T|+rk speaks out on sexual violence, Brazil floods update, Nicaraguan human rights violations
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164886
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Gender-based violence is rising - especially in conflict rCo something which is a rCLshameless repudiation of the basic rules of warfare,rCY according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk.
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rCyStill reelingrCO: Myanmar quakes worsen humanitarian crisis in fractured country
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164881
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nearly three months after MyanmarrCOs strongest earthquake in a century, more than six million people remain in urgent need of assistance, as the disaster compounds a humanitarian crisis driven by years of conflict, political turmoil and mass displacement.
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Political Affairs chief hails Iran-Israel ceasefire as rCysignificant achievementrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164876
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Security Council met Tuesday in New York over the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action put in place in 2015 to prevent Iran from weaponising its ambitious nuclear programme, which has been in effective limbo since the US withdrawal in 2018 and IranrCOs rejection of parts of the deal. UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo described the US-brokered ceasefire overnight between Israel and Iran as a rCLsignificant achievementrCY and rCLan opportunity to avoid a catastrophic esca...
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Power to the people; funding community-led development in Somalia https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164871
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
A story of grassroots persistence in Somalia could serve as a powerful reminder of the impact of innovative financing mechanisms as the international community meets in Spain to discuss how to fund global sustainable development.
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Resettlement changed her life. Now sherCOs fighting for others to have the same chance
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164866
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Once a teenager without legal status or access to education in Afghanistan, Madiha Ali Changezi is now speaking out as a living example of what refugee resettlement can achieve. 
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Guterres urges Iran and Israel to rCyfully respectrCO ceasefire https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164851
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday welcomed the ceasefire announcement between Iran and Israel which was announced on social media overnight by US President Donald Trump.
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Gaza: Over 400 Palestinians killed around private aid hubs, UN rights office says
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164846
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch from controversial new aid hubs in Gaza rCo a likely war crime rCo the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
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What time is it on the Moon? ItrCOs all relativerCa https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164686
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Telling the time on the Moon is more complicated than you might think, but answering the question is becoming more important amid a resurgent interest in lunar exploration. The UN is helping to ensure the Moon is governed in a coordinated and peaceful way, and agreeing on a time zone is a central element of international discussions.
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UN80 Initiative: What it is rCo and why it matters to the world https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164836
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In a world grappling with growing crises, deepening inequalities, and eroding trust in global institutions, the United Nations has launched an ambitious effort to strengthen how it serves people everywhere. The UN80 Initiative, unveiled in March by Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres, is a system-wide push to streamline operations, sharpen impact, and reaffirm the UNrCOs relevance for a rapidly changing world.
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80 years later, the UN Charter is a rCyliving miracle,rCO Secretary-General says
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164831
June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
In front of a multimedia exhibit at United Nations Headquarters entitled rCLReviving the Spirit of San Francisco,rCY Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres welcomed home the UN Charter which was signed in 1945 in the Californian city. 
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Syria: UN commission hails recent action to address past violations https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165066
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The interim authorities in Syria have taken important steps in recent weeks to address past violations, the Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the country said on Friday in an update to  the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Lacroix upholds role of UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon and Syria https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165061
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of UN Peacekeeping affirmed the critical role played by the rCLblue helmetsrCY in Lebanon and Syria during a press conference at Headquarters in New York.
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DR Congo: Despite efforts towards a political solution, violence still rages in the east
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165056
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC. 
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New UN report charts path out of debt crisis threatening global development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165051
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
A decade after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development is facing serious headwinds rCo including what UN officials describe as a rCLsilent crisisrCY of surging debt service payments in low-income countries.
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Sudan: rCyFighting shows no signs of abating,rCO senior UN official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165046
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Three years into the conflict in Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) continue to pursue a military solution, violating international law and the rights of civilians in the process.
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Myanmar human rights crisis deepens as aid collapses, attacks intensify https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165041
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Myanmar is spiralling deeper into humanitarian catastrophe, the UNrCOs top human rights official warned on Friday, as escalating military attacks, crippling aid restrictions and collapsing international support push millions toward starvation and despair.
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Short-range drone attacks deepen crisis on Ukrainian frontlines https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165031
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Attacks with short-range drones killed at least 395 civilians and injured 2,635 between February 2022 rCo the start of RussiarCOs full-scale invasion of Ukraine rCo and April 2025, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission (HRMMU) has reported.
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Guterres calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire as humanitarian crisis reaches rCyhorrific proportionsrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165016
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Friday reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, warning that the humanitarian crisis has reached rCLhorrific proportionsrCY and that the world must not let the suffering of Palestinians be overshadowed by other regional conflicts.
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Gaza: Health system crumbles amid growing desperation over food, fuel https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165011
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclaverCOs people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Millions remain invisible rCo but Asia-Pacific leaders pledge change by 2030 https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165001
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than a decade after Asian and Pacific nations launched a campaign to ensure every life is counted, millions across the region still remain rCLinvisiblerCY rCo born, living, and dying without formal recognition.
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Upcoming elections rCycrucial opportunityrCO for Central African Republic, UN top official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164996
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Central African Republic (CAR) prepares for upcoming elections, the country continues to grapple with a fragile security and humanitarian context, the UN Security Council heard on Thursday. 
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Ukraine: Increasing hostilities displace civilians, limit humanitarian access https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164986
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Deadly hostilities continued along the front-line regions of Ukraine on Wednesday, displacing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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DR Congo: Conflict survivors rCyhave been through hell,rCO says UN aid chief https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164981
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UNrCOs top aid official said on Thursday. 
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Eighty years on, UN Charter marked by reflection, resolve rCo and a run https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164976
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
It wasnrCOt an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers rCo from Times Square to East River rCo following a route that traced the shape of rCLUN@80rCY.
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UN calls for restraint after deadly Kenya protests https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164966
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday. 
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UN rights office sounds the alarm over forced displacement in the West Bank https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164971
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, reported on Thursday. 
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rCyOur kids cry for foodrCO: Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164951
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of IsraelrCOs continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners.
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Despite the fall of Assad, the illicit drug trade in Syria is far from over https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164696
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East. 
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rCyFuel for Gaza is a matter of life and death,rCO UN warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164946
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday. 
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UN rights mission condemns civilian toll in deadly missile strikes on Ukraine https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164941
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of civilians rCo including children and school staff rCo were killed or wounded in Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities this week, in what UN human rights monitors described as a rCLforeseeablerCY tragedy caused by strikes on populated areas.
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Sevilla conference on development financing shows optimism for multilateralism https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164936
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
ItrCOs been 10 years since the Addis Ababa Action Agenda was established to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the worldrCOs roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet and tackling inequalities.
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Iran: Return to inspections top priority for UN nuclear agency https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164931
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that his rCLnumber one priorityrCY is for its inspectors to return to IranrCOs nuclear sites to evaluate damage caused by recent bombing and to verify stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. 
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Responsibility to Protect: An unfulfilled promise, a ray of hope https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164926
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has warned that the world today is failing to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes, calling for a renewed global commitment to the Responsibility to Protect rCo a principle adopted two decades ago that remains, in his words, rCLa moral imperativerCY and rCLan unfulfilled promise.rCY
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rCyA moral failurerCO: Security Council hears about grave violations against children caught in war
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164921
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Sila, a young woman from Idlib in Syria, was three years old, she woke up to missiles falling around her, forcing her and her family to flee their home.  
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Energy access has improved, but more funding is needed to address disparities: WHO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164906
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Although nearly 92 per cent of the global population now has basic access to electricity, more than 666 million people still live without it, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to urge greater financial support for renewable energy. 
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$1 towards a girlrCOs education = $3 for the global economy: That's how development works
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164856
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Helping those with less isnrCOt charity rCo itrCOs a shared investment in a better future. Yet global development financing is under strain. An upcoming UN conference in Sevilla, Spain, aims to change that by mobilizing large-scale investment for a more just and sustainable world.
--------------------
UN urges renewed diplomacy on Iran nuclear deal, hails Tehran-Tel Aviv ceasefire as rCysignificant achievementrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164901
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
A fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States between Iran and Israel appears to be holding, marking a tentative halt to a dangerous regional escalation that included airstrikes, retaliatory missile attacks and mounting civilian casualties.
--------------------
Bold new initiative aims to strengthen and improve the UN, senior officials tell Member States
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164896
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Member States heard on Tuesday how the UN is progressing with a new plan to ensure the world body remains effective, cost-efficient and responsive to the billions of people it serves. 
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Aftermath of Tripoli clashes puts LibyarCOs fragile stability to the test https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164891
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Libya once again stands at a critical juncture in its political transition, after armed clashes erupted in Tripoli last month, further destabilising the country, the UN Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.
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World News in Brief: T|+rk speaks out on sexual violence, Brazil floods update, Nicaraguan human rights violations
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164886
June 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Gender-based violence is rising - especially in conflict rCo something which is a rCLshameless repudiation of the basic rules of warfare,rCY according to the UN human rights chief Volker T|+rk.
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Faith in finance: Indonesia's innovative path to sustainable development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165026
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Indonesia has been putting its faith in innovative approaches to financing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the internationally agreed targets to end poverty, hunger and inequality, fight climate change and preserve the planet.
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Tide of change in Philippines as women revive watersheds and livelihoods https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164991
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the coastal town of Sasmuan, Philippines, life flows with the riverrCOs tide. At dawn, slender boats glide through calm waters as fishing nets are cast beneath the warming sky.
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Guterres welcomes peace deal between DR Congo and Rwanda https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165071
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres has welcomed the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed on Friday in the United States capital, Washington, DC.
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rCyGlobal solidarity benefits us allrCO: Spain makes the case for development funding
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165006
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Funding cuts to international development have cast a pall over a major UN-led international conference set to address the huge challenges faced by countries in the Global South. Despite this sobering backdrop, Eva Granados, Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation, insists that global solidarity is still alive, despite indications to the contrary.
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Syria: UN commission hails recent action to address past violations https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165066
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The interim authorities in Syria have taken important steps in recent weeks to address past violations, the Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the country said on Friday in an update to  the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Lacroix upholds role of UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon and Syria https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165061
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of UN Peacekeeping affirmed the critical role played by the rCLblue helmetsrCY in Lebanon and Syria during a press conference at Headquarters in New York on Friday.
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DR Congo: Despite efforts towards a political solution, violence still rages in the east
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165056
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC. 
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New UN report charts path out of debt crisis threatening global development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165051
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
A decade after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development is facing serious headwinds rCo including what UN officials describe as a rCLsilent crisisrCY of surging debt service payments in low-income countries.
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Sudan: rCyFighting shows no signs of abating,rCO senior UN official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165046
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Three years into the conflict in Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) continue to pursue a military solution, violating international law and the rights of civilians in the process.
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Myanmar human rights crisis deepens as aid collapses, attacks intensify https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165041
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Myanmar is spiralling deeper into humanitarian catastrophe, the UNrCOs top human rights official warned on Friday, as escalating military attacks, crippling aid restrictions and collapsing international support push millions toward starvation and despair.
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Short-range drone attacks deepen crisis on Ukrainian frontlines https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165031
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Attacks with short-range drones killed at least 395 civilians and injured 2,635 between February 2022 rCo the start of RussiarCOs full-scale invasion of Ukraine rCo and April 2025, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission (HRMMU) has reported.
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Guterres calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire as humanitarian crisis reaches rCyhorrific proportionsrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165016
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Friday reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, warning that the humanitarian crisis has reached rCLhorrific proportionsrCY and that the world must not let the suffering of Palestinians be overshadowed by other regional conflicts.
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Gaza: Health system crumbles amid growing desperation over food, fuel https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165011
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclaverCOs people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Millions remain invisible rCo but Asia-Pacific leaders pledge change by 2030 https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165001
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than a decade after Asian and Pacific nations launched a campaign to ensure every life is counted, millions across the region still remain rCLinvisiblerCY rCo born, living, and dying without formal recognition.
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Upcoming elections rCycrucial opportunityrCO for Central African Republic, UN top official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164996
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Central African Republic (CAR) prepares for upcoming elections, the country continues to grapple with a fragile security and humanitarian context, the UN Security Council heard on Thursday. 
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Ukraine: Increasing hostilities displace civilians, limit humanitarian access https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164986
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Deadly hostilities continued along the front-line regions of Ukraine on Wednesday, displacing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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DR Congo: Conflict survivors rCyhave been through hell,rCO says UN aid chief https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164981
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UNrCOs top aid official said on Thursday. 
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Eighty years on, UN Charter marked by reflection, resolve rCo and a run https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164976
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
It wasnrCOt an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers rCo from Times Square to East River rCo following a route that traced the shape of rCLUN@80rCY.
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UN calls for restraint after deadly Kenya protests https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164966
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday. 
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UN rights office sounds the alarm over forced displacement in the West Bank https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164971
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, reported on Thursday. 
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rCyOur kids cry for foodrCO: Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164951
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of IsraelrCOs continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners.
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Despite the fall of Assad, the illicit drug trade in Syria is far from over https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164696
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East. 
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rCyFuel for Gaza is a matter of life and death,rCO UN warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164946
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday. 
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UN rights mission condemns civilian toll in deadly missile strikes on Ukraine https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164941
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of civilians rCo including children and school staff rCo were killed or wounded in Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities this week, in what UN human rights monitors described as a rCLforeseeablerCY tragedy caused by strikes on populated areas.
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Sevilla conference on development financing shows optimism for multilateralism https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164936
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
ItrCOs been 10 years since the Addis Ababa Action Agenda was established to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the worldrCOs roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet and tackling inequalities.
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Iran: Return to inspections top priority for UN nuclear agency https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164931
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that his rCLnumber one priorityrCY is for its inspectors to return to IranrCOs nuclear sites to evaluate damage caused by recent bombing and to verify stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. 
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Responsibility to Protect: An unfulfilled promise, a ray of hope https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164926
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has warned that the world today is failing to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes, calling for a renewed global commitment to the Responsibility to Protect rCo a principle adopted two decades ago that remains, in his words, rCLa moral imperativerCY and rCLan unfulfilled promise.rCY
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rCyA moral failurerCO: Security Council hears about grave violations against children caught in war
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164921
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Sila, a young woman from Idlib in Syria, was three years old, she woke up to missiles falling around her, forcing her and her family to flee their home.  
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Energy access has improved, but more funding is needed to address disparities: WHO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164906
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Although nearly 92 per cent of the global population now has basic access to electricity, more than 666 million people still live without it, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to urge greater financial support for renewable energy. 
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$1 towards a girlrCOs education = $3 for the global economy: That's how development works
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164856
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Helping those with less isnrCOt charity rCo itrCOs a shared investment in a better future. Yet global development financing is under strain. An upcoming UN conference in Sevilla, Spain, aims to change that by mobilizing large-scale investment for a more just and sustainable world.
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Funding shortages threaten relief for millions of Sudanese refugees: WFP https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165086
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Critical shortfalls in global humanitarian funding now threaten millions of Sudanese refugees fleeing war to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.
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LIVE: World leaders in Sevilla launch ambitious push to finance the future https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165076
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
From rising debt and shrinking investment, to the aid funding crisis and struggles to meet ambitious development goals, the global financial system is failing the people it's supposed to serve: that's the challenge facing world leaders gathered in Spain's sweltering southern jewel of Sevilla this week, as the  UN's 4th International Conference on Financing for Development gets underway. Follow our live Meetings Coverage below; app users can catch all the action from the opening day here and...
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DR Congo: New initiative to eliminate HIV in children rCya beacon of hoperCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165036
June 29, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has launched a bold new national initiative aimed at eliminating AIDS among children by 2030 rCo a move hailed by the United Nations as rCLa beacon of hoperCY amid growing global funding constraints. 
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Faith in finance: Indonesia's innovative path to sustainable development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165026
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Indonesia has been putting its faith in innovative approaches to financing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the internationally agreed targets to end poverty, hunger and inequality, fight climate change and preserve the planet.
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Tide of change in Philippines as women revive watersheds and livelihoods https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164991
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the coastal town of Sasmuan, Philippines, life flows with the riverrCOs tide. At dawn, slender boats glide through calm waters as fishing nets are cast beneath the warming sky.
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Guterres welcomes peace deal between DR Congo and Rwanda https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165071
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres has welcomed the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed on Friday in the United States capital, Washington, DC.
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rCyGlobal solidarity benefits us allrCO: Spain makes the case for development funding
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165006
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Funding cuts to international development have cast a pall over a major UN-led international conference set to address the huge challenges faced by countries in the Global South. Despite this sobering backdrop, Eva Granados, Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation, insists that global solidarity is still alive, despite indications to the contrary.
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Syria: UN commission hails recent action to address past violations https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165066
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The interim authorities in Syria have taken important steps in recent weeks to address past violations, the Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the country said on Friday in an update to  the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Lacroix upholds role of UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon and Syria https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165061
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of UN Peacekeeping affirmed the critical role played by the rCLblue helmetsrCY in Lebanon and Syria during a press conference at Headquarters in New York on Friday.
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DR Congo: Despite efforts towards a political solution, violence still rages in the east
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165056
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC. 
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New UN report charts path out of debt crisis threatening global development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165051
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
A decade after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development is facing serious headwinds rCo including what UN officials describe as a rCLsilent crisisrCY of surging debt service payments in low-income countries.
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Sudan: rCyFighting shows no signs of abating,rCO senior UN official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165046
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Three years into the conflict in Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) continue to pursue a military solution, violating international law and the rights of civilians in the process.
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Myanmar human rights crisis deepens as aid collapses, attacks intensify https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165041
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Myanmar is spiralling deeper into humanitarian catastrophe, the UNrCOs top human rights official warned on Friday, as escalating military attacks, crippling aid restrictions and collapsing international support push millions toward starvation and despair.
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Short-range drone attacks deepen crisis on Ukrainian frontlines https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165031
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Attacks with short-range drones killed at least 395 civilians and injured 2,635 between February 2022 rCo the start of RussiarCOs full-scale invasion of Ukraine rCo and April 2025, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission (HRMMU) has reported.
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Guterres calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire as humanitarian crisis reaches rCyhorrific proportionsrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165016
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Friday reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, warning that the humanitarian crisis has reached rCLhorrific proportionsrCY and that the world must not let the suffering of Palestinians be overshadowed by other regional conflicts.
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Gaza: Health system crumbles amid growing desperation over food, fuel https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165011
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclaverCOs people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Millions remain invisible rCo but Asia-Pacific leaders pledge change by 2030 https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165001
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than a decade after Asian and Pacific nations launched a campaign to ensure every life is counted, millions across the region still remain rCLinvisiblerCY rCo born, living, and dying without formal recognition.
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Upcoming elections rCycrucial opportunityrCO for Central African Republic, UN top official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164996
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Central African Republic (CAR) prepares for upcoming elections, the country continues to grapple with a fragile security and humanitarian context, the UN Security Council heard on Thursday. 
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Ukraine: Increasing hostilities displace civilians, limit humanitarian access https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164986
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Deadly hostilities continued along the front-line regions of Ukraine on Wednesday, displacing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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DR Congo: Conflict survivors rCyhave been through hell,rCO says UN aid chief https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164981
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UNrCOs top aid official said on Thursday. 
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Eighty years on, UN Charter marked by reflection, resolve rCo and a run https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164976
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
It wasnrCOt an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers rCo from Times Square to East River rCo following a route that traced the shape of rCLUN@80rCY.
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UN calls for restraint after deadly Kenya protests https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164966
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday. 
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UN rights office sounds the alarm over forced displacement in the West Bank https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164971
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, reported on Thursday. 
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rCyOur kids cry for foodrCO: Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164951
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of IsraelrCOs continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners.
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Despite the fall of Assad, the illicit drug trade in Syria is far from over https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164696
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East. 
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rCyFuel for Gaza is a matter of life and death,rCO UN warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164946
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday. 
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UN rights mission condemns civilian toll in deadly missile strikes on Ukraine https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164941
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
Dozens of civilians rCo including children and school staff rCo were killed or wounded in Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities this week, in what UN human rights monitors described as a rCLforeseeablerCY tragedy caused by strikes on populated areas.
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Sevilla conference on development financing shows optimism for multilateralism https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164936
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
ItrCOs been 10 years since the Addis Ababa Action Agenda was established to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the worldrCOs roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet and tackling inequalities.
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Iran: Return to inspections top priority for UN nuclear agency https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164931
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that his rCLnumber one priorityrCY is for its inspectors to return to IranrCOs nuclear sites to evaluate damage caused by recent bombing and to verify stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. 
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Responsibility to Protect: An unfulfilled promise, a ray of hope https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164926
June 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General has warned that the world today is failing to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes, calling for a renewed global commitment to the Responsibility to Protect rCo a principle adopted two decades ago that remains, in his words, rCLa moral imperativerCY and rCLan unfulfilled promise.rCY
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Gaza: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Strip https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165131
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair.
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Gaza: rCyUnbearablerCO suffering continues, UN official tells Security Council https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165126
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, as Israeli military operations and attacks on civilians seeking aid continue to exact a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure.
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Report reveals significant rise in civilian casualties and rights violations in Ukraine
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165116
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Civilian casualties and violations in Ukraine have significantly escalated in recent months, including a sharp rise in often deadly drone attacks, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Monday.
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Afghanistan: Surging returns from Iran overwhelm fragile support systems, UN agencies warn
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165111
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 700,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran so far this year, including 256,000 in June alone, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday, warning of immense pressures on AfghanistanrCOs overstretched support systems.   
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Human rights can be a rCystrong lever for progressrCO in climate change, says UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165106
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.
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Every hour, 100 people die of loneliness-related causes, UN health agency reports
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165101
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
One in six people are affected by loneliness, with significant implications for health and well-being, according to a new report from the UN World Health Organization (WHO). 
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After the big development pledges in Sevilla, UN says action starts now https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165096
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Now the big promises have been formally adopted in the Spanish city of Sevilla to turbocharge financing for sustainable development, how are the ambitious goals going to be met rCo and how quickly?
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ItrCOs time to finance our future and rCychange courserCO, Guterres tells world leaders in Sevilla
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165091
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
rCLWerCOre here in Sevilla to change course,rCY the UN chief told world leaders on Monday, calling on them to grasp a once-in-a-decade opportunity to close a $4 trillion financing gap facing developing countries to meet sustainable development goals rCo and build a better world for all.
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Funding shortages threaten relief for millions of Sudanese refugees: WFP https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165086
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Critical shortfalls in global humanitarian funding now threaten millions of Sudanese refugees fleeing war to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.
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LIVE: World leaders in Sevilla launch ambitious push to finance the future https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165076
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
From rising debt and shrinking investment, to the aid funding crisis and struggles to meet ambitious development goals, the global financial system is failing the people it's supposed to serve: fixing that is the challenge facing world leaders gathered in Spain's sweltering southern jewel of Sevilla this week, as the UN's 4th International Conference on Financing for Development gets underway. Follow our live Meetings Coverage below; app users can catch all the action from the opening session he...
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DR Congo: New initiative to eliminate HIV in children rCya beacon of hoperCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165036
June 29, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has launched a bold new national initiative aimed at eliminating AIDS among children by 2030 rCo a move hailed by the United Nations as rCLa beacon of hoperCY amid growing global funding constraints. 
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Faith in finance: Indonesia's innovative path to sustainable development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165026
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Indonesia has been putting its faith in innovative approaches to financing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the internationally agreed targets to end poverty, hunger and inequality, fight climate change and preserve the planet.
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Tide of change in Philippines as women revive watersheds and livelihoods https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164991
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the coastal town of Sasmuan, Philippines, life flows with the riverrCOs tide. At dawn, slender boats glide through calm waters as fishing nets are cast beneath the warming sky.
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Guterres welcomes peace deal between DR Congo and Rwanda https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165071
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres has welcomed the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed on Friday in the United States capital, Washington, DC.
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rCyGlobal solidarity benefits us allrCO: Spain makes the case for development funding
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165006
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Funding cuts to international development have cast a pall over a major UN-led international conference set to address the huge challenges faced by countries in the Global South. Despite this sobering backdrop, Eva Granados, Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation, insists that global solidarity is still alive, despite indications to the contrary.
--------------------
Syria: UN commission hails recent action to address past violations https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165066
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The interim authorities in Syria have taken important steps in recent weeks to address past violations, the Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the country said on Friday in an update to  the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Lacroix upholds role of UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon and Syria https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165061
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of UN Peacekeeping affirmed the critical role played by the rCLblue helmetsrCY in Lebanon and Syria during a press conference at Headquarters in New York on Friday.
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DR Congo: Despite efforts towards a political solution, violence still rages in the east
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165056
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC. 
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New UN report charts path out of debt crisis threatening global development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165051
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
A decade after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development is facing serious headwinds rCo including what UN officials describe as a rCLsilent crisisrCY of surging debt service payments in low-income countries.
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Sudan: rCyFighting shows no signs of abating,rCO senior UN official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165046
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Three years into the conflict in Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) continue to pursue a military solution, violating international law and the rights of civilians in the process.
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Myanmar human rights crisis deepens as aid collapses, attacks intensify https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165041
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Myanmar is spiralling deeper into humanitarian catastrophe, the UNrCOs top human rights official warned on Friday, as escalating military attacks, crippling aid restrictions and collapsing international support push millions toward starvation and despair.
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Short-range drone attacks deepen crisis on Ukrainian frontlines https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165031
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Attacks with short-range drones killed at least 395 civilians and injured 2,635 between February 2022 rCo the start of RussiarCOs full-scale invasion of Ukraine rCo and April 2025, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission (HRMMU) has reported.
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Guterres calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire as humanitarian crisis reaches rCyhorrific proportionsrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165016
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres on Friday reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, warning that the humanitarian crisis has reached rCLhorrific proportionsrCY and that the world must not let the suffering of Palestinians be overshadowed by other regional conflicts.
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Gaza: Health system crumbles amid growing desperation over food, fuel https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165011
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclaverCOs people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Millions remain invisible rCo but Asia-Pacific leaders pledge change by 2030 https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165001
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than a decade after Asian and Pacific nations launched a campaign to ensure every life is counted, millions across the region still remain rCLinvisiblerCY rCo born, living, and dying without formal recognition.
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Upcoming elections rCycrucial opportunityrCO for Central African Republic, UN top official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164996
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Central African Republic (CAR) prepares for upcoming elections, the country continues to grapple with a fragile security and humanitarian context, the UN Security Council heard on Thursday. 
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Ukraine: Increasing hostilities displace civilians, limit humanitarian access https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164986
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Deadly hostilities continued along the front-line regions of Ukraine on Wednesday, displacing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 
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DR Congo: Conflict survivors rCyhave been through hell,rCO says UN aid chief https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164981
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UNrCOs top aid official said on Thursday. 
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Eighty years on, UN Charter marked by reflection, resolve rCo and a run https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164976
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
It wasnrCOt an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers rCo from Times Square to East River rCo following a route that traced the shape of rCLUN@80rCY.
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UN calls for restraint after deadly Kenya protests https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164966
June 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday. 
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General Assembly approves $5.4 billion UN peacekeeping budget for 2025-2026 https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165191
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly on Monday approved a $5.38 billion budget for UN peacekeeping operations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, down slightly from the previous year, as delegates wrapped up weeks of negotiations amid warnings about persistent funding challenges.
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Gaza: Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165181
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services. 
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Sudan: UN warns of soaring displacement and looming floods https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165176
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN humanitarians on Tuesday sounded the alarm over worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan, as escalating violence continues to displace civilians and the rising risk of severe flooding during the current rainy season. 
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Iran crisis: UN stays and delivers https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165166
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
A clearer picture of needs across Iran is beginning to emerge after the conflict this month with Israel, which left hundreds dead, several hospitals hit and a spike in Afghan refugees returning home, the UNrCOs top official in Tehran said on Tuesday.
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ChildrenrCOs lives rCyturned upside downrCO by wars across Middle East, North Africa, warns UNICEF
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165171
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in the last two years reportedly killed, maimed, or displaced over 12 million children across the region, according to the UN ChildrenrCOs Fund (UNICEF).
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rCyThe margins of the budgetrCO: Gender equality in developing countries underfunded by $420 billion annually
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165161
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Developing countries currently face a staggering $420 billion annual gap in the funding needed to achieve gender equality, UN Women estimates. This gap means that programmes and services for women and girls are chronically underfunded.  
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50 years of CITES: Protecting wildlife from trade-driven extinction https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165151
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) marks 50 years since it entered into force on Tuesday, celebrating five decades of protecting endangered wildlife from overexploitation through international trade.
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Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165146
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Spain and Brazil have launched a joint initiative to promote higher tax contributions from the super-rich worldwide, aimed at tackling soaring inequality by ensuring those with the most pay their fair share.
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Northern hemisphere heatwave underscores value of early-warning alerts https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165141
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The blistering early-summer heatwave thatrCOs brought life-threatening temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere is a worrying sign of things to come, UN weather experts said on Tuesday.
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Gaza: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Strip https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165131
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair.
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Gaza: rCyUnbearablerCO suffering continues, UN official tells Security Council https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165126
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, as Israeli military operations and attacks on civilians seeking aid continue to exact a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure.
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Report reveals significant rise in civilian casualties and rights violations in Ukraine
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165116
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Civilian casualties and violations in Ukraine have significantly escalated in recent months, including a sharp rise in often deadly drone attacks, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Monday.
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Afghanistan: Surging returns from Iran overwhelm fragile support systems, UN agencies warn
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165111
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 700,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran so far this year, including 256,000 in June alone, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday, warning of immense pressures on AfghanistanrCOs overstretched support systems.   
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Human rights can be a rCystrong lever for progressrCO in climate change, says UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165106
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.
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Every hour, 100 people die of loneliness-related causes, UN health agency reports
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165101
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
One in six people are affected by loneliness, with significant implications for health and well-being, according to a new report from the UN World Health Organization (WHO). 
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After the big development pledges in Sevilla, UN says action starts now https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165096
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Now the big promises have been formally adopted in the Spanish city of Sevilla to turbocharge financing for sustainable development, how are the ambitious goals going to be met rCo and how quickly?
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ItrCOs time to finance our future and rCychange courserCO, Guterres tells world leaders in Sevilla
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165091
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
rCLWerCOre here in Sevilla to change course,rCY the UN chief told world leaders on Monday, calling on them to grasp a once-in-a-decade opportunity to close a $4 trillion financing gap facing developing countries to meet sustainable development goals rCo and build a better world for all.
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Funding shortages threaten relief for millions of Sudanese refugees: WFP https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165086
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Critical shortfalls in global humanitarian funding now threaten millions of Sudanese refugees fleeing war to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.
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LIVE: World leaders in Sevilla launch ambitious push to finance the future https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165076
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
From rising debt and shrinking investment, to the aid funding crisis and struggles to meet ambitious development goals, the global financial system is failing the people it's supposed to serve: fixing that is the challenge facing world leaders gathered in Spain's sweltering southern jewel of Sevilla this week, as the UN's 4th International Conference on Financing for Development gets underway. Follow our live Meetings Coverage below; app users can catch all the action from the opening session he...
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DR Congo: New initiative to eliminate HIV in children rCya beacon of hoperCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165036
June 29, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has launched a bold new national initiative aimed at eliminating AIDS among children by 2030 rCo a move hailed by the United Nations as rCLa beacon of hoperCY amid growing global funding constraints. 
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Faith in finance: Indonesia's innovative path to sustainable development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165026
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Indonesia has been putting its faith in innovative approaches to financing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the internationally agreed targets to end poverty, hunger and inequality, fight climate change and preserve the planet.
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Tide of change in Philippines as women revive watersheds and livelihoods https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164991
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the coastal town of Sasmuan, Philippines, life flows with the riverrCOs tide. At dawn, slender boats glide through calm waters as fishing nets are cast beneath the warming sky.
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Guterres welcomes peace deal between DR Congo and Rwanda https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165071
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres has welcomed the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed on Friday in the United States capital, Washington, DC.
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rCyGlobal solidarity benefits us allrCO: Spain makes the case for development funding
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165006
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Funding cuts to international development have cast a pall over a major UN-led international conference set to address the huge challenges faced by countries in the Global South. Despite this sobering backdrop, Eva Granados, Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation, insists that global solidarity is still alive, despite indications to the contrary.
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Syria: UN commission hails recent action to address past violations https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165066
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The interim authorities in Syria have taken important steps in recent weeks to address past violations, the Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the country said on Friday in an update to  the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Lacroix upholds role of UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon and Syria https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165061
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of UN Peacekeeping affirmed the critical role played by the rCLblue helmetsrCY in Lebanon and Syria during a press conference at Headquarters in New York on Friday.
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DR Congo: Despite efforts towards a political solution, violence still rages in the east
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165056
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC. 
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New UN report charts path out of debt crisis threatening global development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165051
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
A decade after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development is facing serious headwinds rCo including what UN officials describe as a rCLsilent crisisrCY of surging debt service payments in low-income countries.
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Sudan: rCyFighting shows no signs of abating,rCO senior UN official tells Security Council
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165046
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Three years into the conflict in Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) continue to pursue a military solution, violating international law and the rights of civilians in the process.
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Myanmar human rights crisis deepens as aid collapses, attacks intensify https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165041
June 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Myanmar is spiralling deeper into humanitarian catastrophe, the UNrCOs top human rights official warned on Friday, as escalating military attacks, crippling aid restrictions and collapsing international support push millions toward starvation and despair.
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Gaza: Access to key water facility in Khan Younis disrupted, UN reports https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165266
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
A key water reservoir serving Khan Younis in southern Gaza has become inaccessible following new Israeli displacement orders, sparking fears of a collapse in the cityrCOs water distribution network and worsening already dire humanitarian conditions, the United Nations warned on Wednesday.
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Adhering to bans on mines only in peace time will not work: UN rights chief https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165261
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top human rights official on Wednesday expressed grave alarm that six European countries are either in the process of or are considering withdrawing from the international treaty prohibiting anti-personnel mines. 
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Space is not the final frontier rCo it is the foundation of our future: UN deputy chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165251
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Space technologies are no longer a distant frontier but a critical foundation for daily life and global development, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on Wednesday.
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INTERVIEW: Sevilla rCya critical testrCO of multilateralism https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165241
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nations taking part in a flagship UN conference have pledged to address the debt crisis in the Global South and boost sustainable development. However, the real test will be whether or not these commitments will be translated into action.
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Haitian capital rCyparalysed and isolatedrCO by gang violence, Security Council hears
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165246
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 1.3 million people have been displaced in Haiti as surging gang violence, lawlessness, and impunity expose the population rCo especially women and girls rCo to heightened risks of exploitation and sexual violence. 
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Sevilla: Without sustainable development, there is neither hope nor security https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165231
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
A senior UN official has told UN News that the global development challenge is not lack of money, but how to align public and private capital flows. The Sevilla Agreement adopted this week, sets out a roadmap for all UN Member States rCo except the US which pulled out earlier this month rCo with the aim of mobilizing that capital.
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Drowning in debt: New forum in Sevilla offers borrowers chance to rebalance the books
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165196
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
A new mechanism offering debt-distressed countries a way to coordinate action and amplify their voice in the global financial system, has been launched at the UNrCOs pivotal sustainable development conference in Sevilla. 
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General Assembly approves $5.4 billion UN peacekeeping budget for 2025-2026 https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165191
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly on Monday approved a $5.38 billion budget for UN peacekeeping operations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, down slightly from the previous year, as delegates wrapped up weeks of negotiations amid warnings about persistent funding challenges.
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Gaza: Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165181
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services. 
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Sudan: UN warns of soaring displacement and looming floods https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165176
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN humanitarians on Tuesday sounded the alarm over worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan, as escalating violence continues to displace civilians and the rising risk of severe flooding during the current rainy season. 
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Iran crisis: UN stays and delivers https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165166
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
A clearer picture of needs across Iran is beginning to emerge after the conflict this month with Israel, which left hundreds dead, several hospitals hit and a spike in Afghan refugees returning home, the UNrCOs top official in Tehran said on Tuesday.
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ChildrenrCOs lives rCyturned upside downrCO by wars across Middle East, North Africa, warns UNICEF
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165171
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in the last two years reportedly killed, maimed, or displaced over 12 million children across the region, according to the UN ChildrenrCOs Fund (UNICEF).
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rCyThe margins of the budgetrCO: Gender equality in developing countries underfunded by $420 billion annually
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165161
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Developing countries currently face a staggering $420 billion annual gap in the funding needed to achieve gender equality, UN Women estimates. This gap means that programmes and services for women and girls are chronically underfunded.  
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50 years of CITES: Protecting wildlife from trade-driven extinction https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165151
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) marks 50 years since it entered into force on Tuesday, celebrating five decades of protecting endangered wildlife from overexploitation through international trade.
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Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165146
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Spain and Brazil have launched a joint initiative to promote higher tax contributions from the super-rich worldwide, aimed at tackling soaring inequality by ensuring those with the most pay their fair share.
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Northern hemisphere heatwave underscores value of early-warning alerts https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165141
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The blistering early-summer heatwave thatrCOs brought life-threatening temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere is a worrying sign of things to come, UN weather experts said on Tuesday.
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Gaza: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Strip https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165131
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair.
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Gaza: rCyUnbearablerCO suffering continues, UN official tells Security Council https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165126
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, as Israeli military operations and attacks on civilians seeking aid continue to exact a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure.
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Report reveals significant rise in civilian casualties and rights violations in Ukraine
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165116
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Civilian casualties and violations in Ukraine have significantly escalated in recent months, including a sharp rise in often deadly drone attacks, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Monday.
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Afghanistan: Surging returns from Iran overwhelm fragile support systems, UN agencies warn
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165111
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 700,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran so far this year, including 256,000 in June alone, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday, warning of immense pressures on AfghanistanrCOs overstretched support systems.   
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Human rights can be a rCystrong lever for progressrCO in climate change, says UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165106
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.
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Every hour, 100 people die of loneliness-related causes, UN health agency reports
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165101
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
One in six people are affected by loneliness, with significant implications for health and well-being, according to a new report from the UN World Health Organization (WHO). 
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After the big development pledges in Sevilla, UN says action starts now https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165096
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Now the big promises have been formally adopted in the Spanish city of Sevilla to turbocharge financing for sustainable development, how are the ambitious goals going to be met rCo and how quickly?
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ItrCOs time to finance our future and rCychange courserCO, Guterres tells world leaders in Sevilla
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165091
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
rCLWerCOre here in Sevilla to change course,rCY the UN chief told world leaders on Monday, calling on them to grasp a once-in-a-decade opportunity to close a $4 trillion financing gap facing developing countries to meet sustainable development goals rCo and build a better world for all.
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Funding shortages threaten relief for millions of Sudanese refugees: WFP https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165086
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Critical shortfalls in global humanitarian funding now threaten millions of Sudanese refugees fleeing war to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.
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LIVE: World leaders in Sevilla launch ambitious push to finance the future https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165076
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
From rising debt and shrinking investment, to the aid funding crisis and struggles to meet ambitious development goals, the global financial system is failing the people it's supposed to serve: fixing that is the challenge facing world leaders gathered in Spain's sweltering southern jewel of Sevilla this week, as the UN's 4th International Conference on Financing for Development gets underway. Follow our live Meetings Coverage below; app users can catch all the action from the opening session he...
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DR Congo: New initiative to eliminate HIV in children rCya beacon of hoperCO https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165036
June 29, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has launched a bold new national initiative aimed at eliminating AIDS among children by 2030 rCo a move hailed by the United Nations as rCLa beacon of hoperCY amid growing global funding constraints. 
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Faith in finance: Indonesia's innovative path to sustainable development https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165026
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Indonesia has been putting its faith in innovative approaches to financing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the internationally agreed targets to end poverty, hunger and inequality, fight climate change and preserve the planet.
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Tide of change in Philippines as women revive watersheds and livelihoods https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1164991
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
In the coastal town of Sasmuan, Philippines, life flows with the riverrCOs tide. At dawn, slender boats glide through calm waters as fishing nets are cast beneath the warming sky.
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Guterres welcomes peace deal between DR Congo and Rwanda https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165071
June 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN Secretary-General Ant||nio Guterres has welcomed the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed on Friday in the United States capital, Washington, DC.
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rCyA spirit of onenessrCO: Cooperatives cultivating peace in South Sudan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165256
July 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
Within one year, a maize and sorghum cooperative of 20 members in the Central Equatorial State of South Sudan had grown to over 150 members allowing many members to boost their income and provide for their families for the first time.
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Shelter and safety elude Afghan women returnees from Iran and Pakistan https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165331
July 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
As returns of Afghan refugees and those living in refugee-like conditions from Iran and Pakistan increase rCo many forcibly rCo women and girls are arriving in a country where their rights, safety, and futures face severe threats, according to a new UN-led report.
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UN Human Rights Council hears grim updates on Ukraine, Gaza and global racism https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165326
July 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday heard sobering briefings on the human rights situations in Ukraine and Gaza, along with a call to confront structural racism and intersectional discrimination worldwide.
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UN chief rCyappalledrCO by worsening Gaza crisis as civilians face displacement, aid blockades
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165321
July 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General is rCLappalledrCY by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as civilians face yet another wave of mass displacement with few safe places to go.
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Landless and locked out: Young farmers struggle for a future https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165316
July 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Agricultural land is more than just a resource to produce food rCo for many older adults around the world, a land deed is the only safety net they have as they enter their old age. As a result, they hold onto it tightly.  
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Chile and Argentina among coldest places on Earth as polar anticyclone grips region
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165286
July 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Temperatures across lower South America have plummeted rCo falling as low as -15-# Celsius or 5-# Fahrenheit in some places rCo as a rare polar cold wave grips the region, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported on Thursday. 
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With sustainable development under threat, Sevilla summit rekindles hope and unity
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165281
July 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
The landmark Financing for Development conference in Sevilla has concluded with a renewed sense of resolve and a focus on action that can change lives worldwide, according to UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.
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The Sevilla Commitment: A vital step to rebuild trust in global cooperation https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165276
July 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Civil society organisations have welcomed the consensus reached at the landmark sustainable development conference concluding this Thursday in Sevilla, while cautioning that real progress will depend on sustained action.
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Gaza: Access to key water facility in Khan Younis disrupted, UN reports https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165266
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
A key water reservoir serving Khan Younis in southern Gaza has become inaccessible following new Israeli displacement orders, sparking fears of a collapse in the cityrCOs water distribution network and worsening already dire humanitarian conditions, the United Nations warned on Wednesday.
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Adhering to bans on mines only in peace time will not work: UN rights chief https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165261
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top human rights official on Wednesday expressed grave alarm that six European countries are either in the process of or are considering withdrawing from the international treaty prohibiting anti-personnel mines. 
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Space is not the final frontier rCo it is the foundation of our future: UN deputy chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165251
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Space technologies are no longer a distant frontier but a critical foundation for daily life and global development, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on Wednesday.
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INTERVIEW: Sevilla rCya critical testrCO of multilateralism https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165241
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nations taking part in a flagship UN conference have pledged to address the debt crisis in the Global South and boost sustainable development. However, the real test will be whether or not these commitments will be translated into action.
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Haitian capital rCyparalysed and isolatedrCO by gang violence, Security Council hears
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165246
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 1.3 million people have been displaced in Haiti as surging gang violence, lawlessness, and impunity expose the population rCo especially women and girls rCo to heightened risks of exploitation and sexual violence. 
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Sevilla: Without sustainable development, there is neither hope nor security https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165231
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
A senior UN official has told UN News that the global development challenge is not lack of money, but how to align public and private capital flows. The Sevilla Agreement adopted this week, sets out a roadmap for all UN Member States rCo except the US which pulled out earlier this month rCo with the aim of mobilizing that capital.
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Drowning in debt: New forum in Sevilla offers borrowers chance to rebalance the books
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165196
July 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
A new mechanism offering debt-distressed countries a way to coordinate action and amplify their voice in the global financial system, has been launched at the UNrCOs pivotal sustainable development conference in Sevilla. 
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General Assembly approves $5.4 billion UN peacekeeping budget for 2025-2026 https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165191
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The General Assembly on Monday approved a $5.38 billion budget for UN peacekeeping operations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, down slightly from the previous year, as delegates wrapped up weeks of negotiations amid warnings about persistent funding challenges.
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Gaza: Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165181
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services. 
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Sudan: UN warns of soaring displacement and looming floods https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165176
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN humanitarians on Tuesday sounded the alarm over worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan, as escalating violence continues to displace civilians and the rising risk of severe flooding during the current rainy season. 
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Iran crisis: UN stays and delivers https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165166
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
A clearer picture of needs across Iran is beginning to emerge after the conflict this month with Israel, which left hundreds dead, several hospitals hit and a spike in Afghan refugees returning home, the UNrCOs top official in Tehran said on Tuesday.
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ChildrenrCOs lives rCyturned upside downrCO by wars across Middle East, North Africa, warns UNICEF
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165171
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in the last two years reportedly killed, maimed, or displaced over 12 million children across the region, according to the UN ChildrenrCOs Fund (UNICEF).
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rCyThe margins of the budgetrCO: Gender equality in developing countries underfunded by $420 billion annually
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165161
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Developing countries currently face a staggering $420 billion annual gap in the funding needed to achieve gender equality, UN Women estimates. This gap means that programmes and services for women and girls are chronically underfunded.  
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50 years of CITES: Protecting wildlife from trade-driven extinction https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165151
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) marks 50 years since it entered into force on Tuesday, celebrating five decades of protecting endangered wildlife from overexploitation through international trade.
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Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165146
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Spain and Brazil have launched a joint initiative to promote higher tax contributions from the super-rich worldwide, aimed at tackling soaring inequality by ensuring those with the most pay their fair share.
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Northern hemisphere heatwave underscores value of early-warning alerts https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165141
July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
The blistering early-summer heatwave thatrCOs brought life-threatening temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere is a worrying sign of things to come, UN weather experts said on Tuesday.
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Gaza: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Strip https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165131
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair.
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Gaza: rCyUnbearablerCO suffering continues, UN official tells Security Council https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165126
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, as Israeli military operations and attacks on civilians seeking aid continue to exact a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure.
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Report reveals significant rise in civilian casualties and rights violations in Ukraine
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165116
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Civilian casualties and violations in Ukraine have significantly escalated in recent months, including a sharp rise in often deadly drone attacks, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Monday.
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Afghanistan: Surging returns from Iran overwhelm fragile support systems, UN agencies warn
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165111
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
More than 700,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran so far this year, including 256,000 in June alone, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday, warning of immense pressures on AfghanistanrCOs overstretched support systems.   
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Human rights can be a rCystrong lever for progressrCO in climate change, says UN rights chief
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165106
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UNrCOs top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.
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Every hour, 100 people die of loneliness-related causes, UN health agency reports
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/06/1165101
June 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
One in six people are affected by loneliness, with significant implications for health and well-being, according to a new report from the UN World Health Organization (WHO). 
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Smurf your voice: Global campaign urges everyone to speak up for a better future
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165382
July 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Smurfs are back rCo and this time they are smurfing up a global storm. Teaming up with the UN ChildrenrCOs Fund (UNICEF) and Paramount Pictures, the iconic blue characters are leading a campaign that encourages children and grownups everywhere to rCLSpeak UprCY for a better world.
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No fuel, no aid, no escape: UN agencies warn of looming collapse in Gaza https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165383
July 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
The fuel crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point, threatening to bring all humanitarian operations to a halt and endangering the lives of everyone reliant on aid inside the enclave, UN agencies warned in a powerful joint statement on Saturday.
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World Horse Day: Honoring humanityrCOs oldest and most loyal companion https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165370
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
Spacious paddocks, green pastures, and a devoted all-female staff: on Long Island, a strip of land surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean near New York City, horses once destined for slaughter are given a second chance rCo to live, and to help people heal. The farm, founded in 2010 by Marisa Striano, is named after her beloved horse, Spirit. It offers healing rCo for both horses and humans in need.
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Lifesaver: Study shows vaccine campaigns cut deaths by nearly 60 per cent https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165380
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000, according to a new study published this week.
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Gazans dying in search of food, rCystarkest illustrationrCO of their desperation
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165379
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
Humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip rCLhave never been higherrCY while the ability to assist the population has rCLnever been more constrained,rCY a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday in New York. 
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UN chief condemns latest Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165378
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN Secretary-General issued a statement on Friday condemning the latest Houthi rebel attacks on shipping in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen.
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Desperate Afghan refugees return to an unfamiliar home https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165377
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
A chaotic wave of returnees from Iran and Pakistan is straining AfghanistanrCOs already fragile capacity under Taliban rule and threatening broader regional stability, said the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday.
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Celebrating the potential and promise of the largest youth generation ever https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165375
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
Young people are shaping the future and demanding a world that is just, inclusive and sustainable, the UN chief said on Friday, marking World Population Day.
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rCyAn unending horror storyrCO: Gangs and human rights abuses expand in Haiti https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165373
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
Between October 2024 and June this year, Haiti has been caught in a vicious and unending cycle. First, gang violence expanded westward into the Artibonite and Centre Departments.
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Malnutrition crisis deepens for SudanrCOs children as war rages on https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165372
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
SudanrCOs brutal civil war is pushing more children towards the brink of starvation, the UN ChildrenrCOs Fund (UNICEF) reported on Friday, highlighting a sharp and alarming rise in severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases across the country.
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150,000 Rohingya flee to Bangladesh amid renewed Myanmar violence https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165369
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
Escalating conflict and targeted violence in MyanmarrCOs Rakhine state have forced some 150,000 Rohingya refugees to flee to Bangladesh over the past 18 months rCo the largest exodus to the neighbouring country in years. 
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Gaza: rCyUnacceptablerCO choice between getting shot or getting fed https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165368
July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM
Following the deaths of several children in an Israeli strike on Palestinians waiting in line for nutritional supplements in central Gaza on Thursday, UN humanitarian officials have once again condemned the killings of people at aid distribution sites in the enclave.
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International Criminal Court: War crimes, systematic sexual violence ongoing in Darfur
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165367
July 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Systematic rape and sexual violence are being used as weapons of war in Darfur, the International Criminal Court (ICC) warned on Thursday, as part of a widening investigation into what its Deputy Prosecutor said are escalating atrocities against civilians in the conflict-ridden region.
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She fought for the girl the world left behind: Natalia KanemrCOs UN legacy https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165360
July 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Natalia Kanem reflects on her eight-year tenure at the helm of the UN reproductive health agency, she doesnrCOt begin with global statistics, boardroom breakthroughs, or even memories of her visits to refugee camps.
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UN warns of record civilian casualties in Ukraine https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165366
July 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN agencies on Thursday warned of devastating recent attacks across Ukraine due to Russian strikes, record civilian casualties recorded last month rCo and growing deprivation facing children under fire across the country.
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UNICEF deplores rCyunconscionablerCO killing of families lining up for aid in Gaza
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165365
July 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The head of the UN ChildrenrCOs Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep dismay over the rCLunconscionablerCY killing of children during an aid distribution in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday. 
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Fight to end AIDS: rCyThis is not just a funding gap rCo itrCOs a ticking time bombrCO
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165364
July 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Devastating funding cuts from international donors are hitting countries hardest affected by HIV rCo but many are showing remarkable resilience and determination to keep progress alive. 
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Overlooked and underestimated: Sand and dust storms wreak havoc across borders https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165363
July 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
There are three Great Pyramids at Giza in Egypt - but imagine if there were 307 of the mighty edifices. And then imagine that they had dissolved into over two billion tons of sand and dust particles. 
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UN voices concern over GreecerCOs suspension of asylum applications https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165361
July 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Thursday raised alarm over GreecerCOs decision to suspend the submission of asylum applications from people arriving by sea from North Africa, warning it risks breaching international law and undermining the countryrCOs longstanding commitment to protecting those fleeing conflict and persecution.
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UN calls for reversal of US sanctions on Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165359
July 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Top UN human rights officials have voiced serious concern over the imposition of sanctions by the United States targeting Francesca Albanese, a UN-appointed independent expert on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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Libya: UN urges restraint as military buildup threatens renewed violence in Tripoli
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165358
July 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
With Libya once again teetering on the brink of violence, the United Nations has issued an urgent appeal for calm amid rising military tensions in and around the capital, Tripoli.
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UN warns of deepening health crisis in Gaza amid mass casualty incidents https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165356
July 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
As scores of people rCo including medical staff and their families rCo have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources.
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rCyVery limited time to reactrCO: Texas flash floods expose challenges in early warning
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165355
July 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
The deadly flash floods in central Texas that claimed more than 100 lives over the July Fourth weekend in the United States have underscored the devastating power of this fast-onset hazard rCo and the critical challenge of ensuring early warnings reach vulnerable populations, even in the dead of night.
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Ukrainian baker rises above adversity https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165354
July 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
At Hanna HoncharenkorCOs bakery in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine, the scent of freshly baked bread represents a slice of home for many. The business, born out of hardship, is proof that with trust and support it is possible start again following the loss brought on by war. 
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Yemen deserves hope and dignity, Security Council hears https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165353
July 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
Yemen continues to face a dire humanitarian crisis, driven by acute hunger, economic collapse, and regional instability, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday.
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In South Asia, anaemia threatens womenrCOs health and economic futures https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165350
July 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
Anaemia remains one of South AsiarCOs quietest but most pervasive health crises, disproportionately affecting the regionrCOs poorest women and girls rCo and with 18 million more cases projected by 2030, experts say urgent, unified action is critical.
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US tariff delay deepens trade uncertainty, warns top UN economist https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165351
July 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
A leading UN trade official warned on Tuesday that the United StatesrCO decision to delay the end of a tariff suspension by a few weeks risks prolonging global uncertainty and undermining long-term investments and commercial contracts.
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Ukraine: UN refugee agency helps repair homes amid ongoing conflict https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165349
July 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
As relentless attacks continue to damage homes and communities across Ukraine, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has now helped repair over 40,000 war-damaged homes rCo marking a major step in helping displaced families return and recover. 
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South SudanrCOs longest cholera outbreak enters critical stage https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165348
July 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
On the eve of the fourteenth anniversary of its independence, South Sudan rCo the worldrCOs youngest country rCo is experiencing its worst and longest cholera outbreak.  
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Gaza: Hospitals rationing critical supplies, ambulances stalling https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/07/1165347
July 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
UN humanitarians have warned that the catastrophic conditions in Gaza are worsening, as tents, schools, homes and medical facilities come under attack, and fuel supplies run out. 
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