G20 leading industrialized nations must embrace their role as influential leaders against climate change, by aligning development and economic recovery with international nature and climate goals, according to a new...
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The UN and its partners need to reach more Syrians with immediate life-saving aid, the UN relief chief warned the Security Council on Thursday,...
“Needs are growing faster than generosity” in the central Sahel, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs told a group of senior officials on Thursday, meeting to discuss...
UN assisting thousands affected by Tropical Storm Ana in Mozambique
UN teams are on the ground in Mozambique assisting thousands of people affected by Tropical Storm Ana, which made landfall in central and northern...
UN remembers ‘unprecedented horror and calculated cruelty’ of the Holocaust
The Holocaust “defined the United Nations”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, recalling that the UN Charter...
Road to COP27: Why Africa cannot be Complacent on Energy, Climate Change
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) – A year ago, we welcomed 2021 with a sense of cautious optimism when the newly developed vaccines promised...
A Special Adviser to Probe Racism and Discrimination at UN
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) – “Racism and discrimination have no place in our world — least of all at the United Nations”, warns...
New insights into quality of care for girls and women facing medical complications due to unsafe abortion were published on Wednesday by the UN health...
More than eight million new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Americas last week, the highest weekly caseload since the start of the pandemic,...
Bachelet: ‘We need to push back against hatred’
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned on Wednesday that “racism and xenophobia are rising sharply”, highlighting violent attacks on Jewish sites and antisemitic incidents reported in many countries....
UN fact-finding mission on Iran focuses on plight of civilians 
Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals 
World News in Brief: Winter aid for Gaza, West Bank; Haiti food production; migrant deaths at sea; human rights funding 
Yemen escalation displaces more than 57,000 children: UNICEF