News from the United Nations
- Mind your language: The battle for linguistic diversity in AI March 23, 2025For two years, one international organization under the umbrella of the UN has been leading a relentless campaign in the corridors of global digital diplomacy. Its mission? To bring linguistic diversity to English-dominated artificial intelligence.
- 3-week Gaza aid ban ‘collective punishment’: UNRWA chief March 23, 2025The tight Israeli blockade of humanitarian supplies is pushing Gaza closer to an acute hunger crisis, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), said on Sunday.
- WORLD WATER DAY: The ‘cold hard truth’ March 21, 2025Melting glaciers, climate crises and access to clean water are some of the messages emerging ahead of World Water Day and on the first ever World Day for Glaciers. UN News app users can follow our coverage here.
- Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teams March 21, 2025Israel’s renewed bombing campaign and intensifying ground operation in Gaza are reversing gains achieved during the brief ceasefire, UN humanitarians inside the devastated enclave said on Friday.
- Running to bomb shelters, nothing new for Ukraine’s schoolchildren March 21, 2025Classes cut short by air raid sirens have become a routine part of school life for many Ukrainian youngsters in the three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, a new UN report published on Friday details.
- Children, refugees pay hefty price of global aid funding crisis March 21, 2025Children, refugees and displaced people worldwide are paying the price for the deep-seated funding crisis that has engulfed the international aid sector, made worse by pronounced cuts in Washington, the UN children’s and refugee agencies said on Friday.
- Middle East crisis spirals amid mounting civilian deaths, aid blockade March 21, 2025The Israel-Palestine conflict is descending further into violence, with mounting civilian casualties in the West Bank and a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the UN’s top envoy for the region warned on Friday.
- ‘The poison of racism continues to infect our world’, Guterres warns on International Day March 21, 2025The United Nations commemorated the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday, calling on the global community to uphold its shared responsibility to combat racism in all its forms.
- UNICEF condemns looting of lifesaving supplies for children in Sudan March 21, 2025The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday strongly condemned the looting of vital humanitarian supplies from Al Bashair Hospital in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, warning that the theft puts thousands of malnourished children and mothers at risk.
- Gaza: ‘Bring them all home now’, freed hostage tells Security Council March 20, 2025A senior UN political affairs official called for Israel and Hamas to restore the shattered ceasefire in Gaza on Thursday and release all remaining hostages, while one of those freed told the Security Council of his 500-day ordeal in captivity.