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News from the United Nations
- Climate change: How mountain communities are scaling new heights April 24, 2025Low-lying islands aren’t the only ones at risk from our warming planet, as mountain communities are now finding.
- Outrage as Russian attacks on Ukraine cities kill at least nine civilians April 24, 2025Grim details continued to emerge on Thursday in the aftermath of a wave of Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital and other cities overnight, with early reports indicating that at least nine people were killed and dozens injured.
- More action needed to beat malaria for good, says UN April 24, 2025Although strong global collaboration has helped to save nearly 13 million lives from malaria over the past 25 years, more action is needed to stamp out the disease.
- Trust collapsing as job fears surge worldwide, warns UN April 24, 2025Billions of people around the world are living in fear of job loss or struggling to find work, as economic instability, conflict, and climate shocks combine to erode global security, a new UN report has warned.
- Hundreds killed in Sudan’s camps for displaced people April 24, 2025Hundreds of civilians, including at least 12 humanitarian workers, have been killed in recent artillery shelling targeting the El Fasher and Zamzam camps in Sudan’s Darfur region, triggering an unprecedented wave of displacement according to the UN.
- UN warns of rising deportations of Haitian mothers and newborns from Dominican Republic April 24, 2025The UN has raised concern over a growing number of vulnerable Haitians – particularly pregnant women, new mothers, and infants – being deported from the Dominican Republic.
- As budgets shrink, UN Peacekeeping looks to the future April 24, 2025With just weeks to go before a key ministerial meeting in Berlin, the UN and Germany have reaffirmed their commitment to peacekeeping – a vital tool for global stability that must now adapt to dwindling resources.
- Gaza: Aid ban pushes civilians to the brink April 24, 2025The near two-month ban on humanitarian aid and supplies entering Gaza is driving families to the edge of survival, as critical essentials – including food, shelter and medicine – are rapidly running out.
- Indigenous Peoples sidelined in global climate fight, UN warns April 24, 2025As the planet heats up and the push to decarbonise gathers pace, Indigenous Peoples – long among the world’s most effective environmental stewards – are once again being left behind, a new UN report reveals.
- World leaders rally for ‘full-speed’ climate action ahead of COP30 April 23, 2025At a high-stakes virtual summit on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva brought together 17 national leaders from major economies and climate-vulnerable countries. The goal was to accelerate global climate ambition ahead of COP30, which will be hosted in Brazil.