News from the United Nations
- World Health Day: Focusing on women’s physical and mental health around the world April 6, 2025Monday’s World Health Day highlights a critical issue for global health: the particular vulnerabilities faced by women and girls.
- UN rights chief urges probe into Russian attack that killed nine children in Ukraine April 6, 2025The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Sunday for an investigation into the Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih which reportedly killed 18 people, including nine children.
- Aid cuts threaten to roll back progress in ending maternal mortality April 6, 2025Unprecedented aid cuts are putting global progress to end maternal deaths at risk, three UN agencies warned in a new report that calls for greater investment in midwives and other health workers.
- AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: Why new thinking is needed on disarmament April 5, 2025The Artificial Intelligence (AI) race needs to slow down and IT firms should instead be focusing on the bigger picture to ensure that the technology is not misused on the battlefield, UN disarmament experts and leaders of ‘big tech’ companies have insisted.
- UN deplores deadly attack on city in central Ukraine April 5, 2025The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine has strongly condemned a missile strike in Kryvyi Rih on Friday which killed more than a dozen people, including at least nine children, and left several others injured.
- More than one million children in Gaza deprived of aid for over a month: UNICEF April 5, 2025The blockade of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is having dire consequences for more than a million children, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Saturday.
- Sudan: Suffering continues amid massive destruction across Khartoum April 4, 2025The people of Sudan are trapped in siege-like conditions “with no escape, no hope, and often forced to face unspeakable abuse,” a senior official with the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday in Geneva.
- UN rights office calls for end to Israel's ‘illegal presence’ in the Occupied Palestinian Territory April 4, 2025Amid reports of escalating settler violence in the West Bank, the UN rights office, OHCHR, briefed the Palestinian rights committee at UN Headquarters in New York, which also featured a screening of the Oscar winning documentary No Other Land.
- UN rolls out key initiative to combat antisemitism April 4, 2025Amid rising concerns over antisemitism worldwide, the UN on Friday announced the roll out of a major action plan to combat the scourge – aimed at enhancing monitoring and response across the whole UN system.
- World News in Brief: Cholera surges worldwide, DR Congo update, WHO leads global health emergency exercise April 4, 2025A global surge in cholera is threatening vulnerable people from Angola to Myanmar, fuelled by conflict, natural disasters and climate change, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.