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News from the United Nations
- Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns May 30, 2025For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – making it easier, and more appealing, to try.
- UN’s lifesaving programmes under threat as budget crisis hits hard May 30, 2025The UN is facing a deepening budget crisis that threatens lifesaving operations worldwide. From refugee aid in Mozambique to maternal health services in Afghanistan, critical programmes are on the brink of collapse unless urgent funding is secured.
- Gaza is the ‘hungriest place on earth’, as Israel continues stranglehold on aid May 30, 2025Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained by the Israeli authorities, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said on Friday.
- Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins May 30, 2025In Al-Jundi Al-Majhool Square – once the bustling heart of Gaza City – music now floats among the tents. The square, transformed into a sprawling displacement camp, shelters hundreds of families driven from their homes by more than 19 months of war.
- World News in Brief: Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti May 30, 2025In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intensifying conflict, intercommunal violence and mass displacement are forcing hundreds of thousands of children out of school.
- ‘Justice is long overdue’: Guterres calls for reparations for enslavement and colonialism May 30, 2025Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his calls for Member states and the United Nations to work towards justice and reparations for Africans and the diaspora in a speech in New York on Friday.
- ‘This is not just ice’: Glaciers support human livelihoods, UN deputy chief says May 30, 2025UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed called for urgent action to protect water-related ecosystems in remarks to the International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Friday.
- ‘We are the present’: Tajik climate activist urges leaders to include youth voices in dialogue May 29, 2025A young activist from Tajikistan is speaking up to show that her generation can be part of the solution to combat climate change.
- UN searches for solutions to global housing crisis May 29, 2025The UN’s urban development agency estimates that an astonishing 2.8 billion people worldwide lack access to adequate housing, secure land, and basic water and sanitation services – that’s around 40 per cent of the global population.
- Ukraine: Hopes for peace on life support, Security Council hears May 29, 2025A glimmer of hope for peace in Ukraine has been overshadowed by a devastating new wave of Russian attacks, UN officials told the Security Council on Thursday, warning of soaring civilian casualties and a worsening humanitarian crisis that could derail a diplomatic end to the war.