News from the United Nations

• UN rights chief raises alarm over escalating violence in Syria March 9, 2025
  The killing of civilians in coastal areas in northwest Syria must cease immediately, the UN rights chief said on Sunday following a series of coordinated attacks reportedly launched by elements of the former government and other local armed men.
• Ukraine reels from one of the deadliest days of war March 9, 2025
  Attacks across Ukraine on Friday reportedly left 21 civilians dead and scores injured, making it one of the deadliest days this year, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country said in a statement issued on Saturday night. 
• Explainer: The Commission on the Status of Women and why it matters March 9, 2025
  Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN Headquarters in New York every March to take the pulse of the planet and make their voices heard.
• Online ‘manosphere’ is moving misogyny to the mainstream March 7, 2025
  A decline in democracy and harmful content spread on social media platforms are helping to drive a backlash against feminism, and the growth of misogynistic and retrograde ideas about the roles of men and women and society.
• Syria: Up to one million people plan to return home in desperation March 7, 2025
  Up to one million desperate Syrians living in camps and displacement sites across the country’s northwest intend to return home within the next year – sparking deep concerns of a new humanitarian crisis.
• Post-Assad Syria faces critical test over eliminating chemical weapons March 7, 2025
  The fall of the Assad regime has created a historic opportunity to rid Syria of chemical weapons and ensure long-term compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the UN’s top disarmament official told the Security Council on Friday.
• Millions in Central Sahel and Nigeria face food cuts amid WFP funding crisis March 7, 2025
  The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that potentially life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Central Sahel and Nigeria will have to end next month, unless emergency funds can be secured.
• Scores killed in ‘abhorrent attack’ on UN helicopter in South Sudan March 7, 2025
  A UN helicopter attempting to evacuate wounded South Sudanese soldiers in the north of the country was attacked on Friday, killing a crew member and injuring two others.
• Occupied Palestinian Territory: Israeli operations continue to have dire consequences March 7, 2025
  Humanitarian agencies warned on Friday that ongoing Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank are exacerbating an already dire situation for displaced Palestinians.
• WOMEN’S DAY LIVE: ‘Equality is the gamechanger’ March 7, 2025
  International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March, is about challenges, backlashes against gender equality and cause for celebrations around the world. UN News app users can follow our coverage here.