News from the United Nations

• Children in Gaza ‘going to bed starving’ amid blockade April 29, 2025
  The biggest UN aid agency in Gaza on Tuesday condemned the two-month Israeli blockade that has left families eating barely enough to survive amid daily bombings – and the sick and injured without lifesaving medical help.
• MIDDLE EAST LIVE: Guterres tells Security Council two-State solution ‘near point of no return’ April 29, 2025
  The Security Council has been meeting on the Middle East, with Secretary-General António Guterres telling ambassadors that irreversible action must be taken to finally put a two-State solution in place for Israel and Palestine. Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens, with reports from the UN Palestine refugee relief agency (UNRWA) that children are "going […]
• One in four female genital mutilation cases now carried out by health workers April 28, 2025
  Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it is increasingly performed by professional healthcare workers, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday.
• UN warns of $4 trillion shortfall threatening global development goals April 28, 2025
  Facing a staggering $4 trillion annual financing gap for development and mounting trade wars, top UN officials on Monday called for urgent action to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals and revive international cooperation.
• ‘Season of war,’ as norms of humanitarian law ‘cast aside’ UN refugee chief April 28, 2025
  Thousands of lives have been “destroyed in the pursuit of supremacy”, as international humanitarian law has been “dismissed” and “cast aside”, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, on Monday.
• Gazans face hunger crisis as aid blockade nears two months April 28, 2025
  Surviving on one meal a day and stretching out rapidly dwindling food rations have become a desperate reality in the Gaza Strip, where humanitarian aid has been blocked for nearly two months.  
• World News in Brief: Sudan aid challenges, Myanmar quake update, UN support for victims of sexual abuse April 28, 2025
  Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is deepening as escalating violence blocks aid deliveries and forces thousands more civilians to flee, the UN warned on Monday.
• UN launches network to support victims and survivors of terrorism April 28, 2025
  A new UN initiative aims to drive collective action to support the rights and needs of people everywhere whose lives have been upended by the continuing threat posed terrorism. 
• Israel’s restrictions on UN agencies in Gaza highlighted at world court April 28, 2025
  The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearings on Monday into Israel’s continuing severe restrictions on the work of the UN and other international organizations in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
• Gaza: UN official warns of 'assault on dignity' as blockade cripples humanitarian response April 26, 2025
  The coming days in Gaza are set to be critical, the UN warned on Saturday, as humanitarian operations are severely curtailed amid an intensifying blockade, escalating violence, and soaring humanitarian needs.