News from the United Nations
- Climate change: La Niña fades, as global heat keeps rising March 6, 2025The weak but significant La Niña weather event that began in December is likely to be brief, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced.
- UN emergency aid fund releases $110 million for neglected humanitarian crises March 6, 2025Amid deep cuts to global humanitarian funding, the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund, CERF, on Thursday allocated $110 million to neglected crises across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
- Sudan: Access to stricken Zamzam camp ‘is nearly impossible’ March 6, 2025Civilians sheltering in the vast Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region are now “nearly impossible” to reach, the UN’s top aid official in the country warned on Thursday.
- UN Assembly President calls for just and lasting peace in Ukraine March 6, 2025The President of the General Assembly on Thursday renewed his call for a just, lasting and comprehensive peace between Ukraine and Russia, in line with the UN Charter and the principles of sovereign equality and territorial integrity.
- Yemen: ‘Fear of a return to full conflict is palpable’, says UN envoy March 6, 2025After several years of fragile truce, there is a “palpable” fear of a return to all-out war in Yemen, said Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen Hans Grundberg on Thursday, briefing the Security Council.
- Choose compassion, reject cruelty to end HIV, says top UN rights official March 6, 2025Global efforts to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic continue to remain insufficient, with deadly consequences, the UN Human Rights Council heard on Thursday.
- One in four countries report backlash against women’s rights in 2024 March 6, 2025The basic rights of women and girls are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections -and less funding for programmes and institutions which support and protect women.
- ‘Humanity’s future depends on investing in the machinery of peace’: UN chief March 5, 2025“Humanity’s future depends on investing in the machinery of peace, not the machinery of war,” said Secretary-General António Guterres in a message marking the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness.
- Syrians’ hopes for a better future depend on justice for the disappeared, Human Rights Council hears March 5, 2025The people of Syria’s painful search for a peaceful future took centre stage at the UN on Wednesday as one leading representative of the families of the country’s forcibly disappeared spoke of the continuing pain of not knowing their fate.
- World News in Brief: Guterres convenes Cyprus meeting, violence continues in southern Lebanon, UN aid hub in Chad expands March 5, 2025The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday announced he would be convening fresh talks over the future of Cyprus, scheduled to take place over two days from 17 March.