News from the United Nations
- MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Live updates for 16 June June 16, 2025After a weekend of massive strikes and counter-strikes between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the UN's human rights chief, Volker Türk on Monday condemned the violence and echoed wider calls for a negotiated end to the attacks. Meanwhile in Gaza, aid workers report that mobile communications networks continue to be cut in the shattered enclave. We'll […]
- UNHCR forced to make deep cuts, despite rising needs worldwide June 16, 2025The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on Monday that it is cutting global staffing costs by around 30 per cent, following a comprehensive review of its activities, spending, staffing and structure, prompted by major funding shortfalls.
- Brutal cuts mean brutal choices warns UN relief chief, launching ‘survival appeal’ June 16, 2025Facing the most severe funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian aid, UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Monday announced a “hyper-prioritised” appeal for $29 billion to meet urgent global needs.
- ‘Behind each crisis, people are suffering,’ Türk tells Human Rights Council June 16, 2025Eighty years after the United Nations was established to end war, uphold fundamental human rights and promote justice and international law, those founding principles are increasingly under threat, the UN’s human rights chief warned on Monday.
- Without urgent funding, global hunger hotspots are set to grow, UN warns June 16, 2025Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people have fled to neighbouring South Sudan, seeking refuge from escalating violence that has displaced 12.4 million people and plunged over half the Sudanese population into food insecurity.
- Guterres to launch life-saving campaign strengthening mine action worldwide June 16, 2025The UN Secretary-General is set to launch a global campaign to boost support for disarmament and mine action.
- UN ocean summit in Nice closes with wave of commitments June 13, 2025Ships in the port of Nice sounded their fog-horns on Friday, a brassy crescendo to a rare moment of global unity as the Third UN Ocean Conference drew to a close. Moments earlier, more than 170 countries had adopted by consensus a sweeping political declaration promising urgent action to protect the ocean.
- Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist June 13, 2025UN agencies on Friday continue to stress they must be allowed to deliver aid in the Gaza Strip as famine looms and a telecommunications blackout threatens lifesaving operations.
- World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism June 13, 2025Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday.
- Societies grappling with a ‘silent but growing’ prison crisis June 13, 2025Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect – fuelling calls for urgent reform.