News from the United Nations
- The world pledged to end child labour by 2025: So why are 138 million kids still working? June 11, 2025Twelve-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.
- At least eight drown in Red Sea as smugglers force migrants overboard June 11, 2025Survivors 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.
- ‘Plenty of fish in the sea’? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice June 11, 2025At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the “catch of the day” wasn’t a seabass or a red mullet – it was a figure: 35 per cent. That’s the share of global fish stocks now being harvested unsustainably, according to a new UN report released Wednesday.
- Climate emergency is a health crisis ‘that is already killing us,’ says WHO June 11, 2025With 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 – and it’s already claiming lives.
- Ukraine: Ongoing Russian strikes continue alarming civilian casualty trend June 11, 2025Civilian 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.
- Rising hunger in Gaza highlights urgent need for ‘unfettered’ aid supplies June 11, 2025People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the “very limited” volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.
- Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians June 11, 2025Nearly 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.
- Sudan emergency: We need more help to prevent famine, says WFP June 10, 2025The very real risk of famine continues to stalk Sudan’s 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.
- Greed is driving oceans toward collapse June 10, 2025The ocean is under siege – and greed is to blame. UN Secretary-General António 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.
- Israeli attacks on Gaza schools could be crimes against humanity: UN probe June 10, 2025The Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s 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.