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- WOMEN’S DAY LIVE: ‘Equality is the gamechanger’ March 7, 2025International 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.
- Scores killed in ‘abhorrent attack’ on UN helicopter in South Sudan March 7, 2025A 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.
- DR Congo crisis leaves mothers with newborns fleeing to Burundi March 7, 2025The aid response in Burundi to the crisis in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “is literally buckling”, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned on Friday, as it relayed dramatic testimonies from people forced to flee the unchecked advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
- Online ‘manosphere’ is moving misogyny to the mainstream March 7, 2025A 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, 2025Up 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, 2025The 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, 2025The 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.
- Occupied Palestinian Territory: Israeli operations continue to have dire consequences March 7, 2025Humanitarian agencies warned on Friday that ongoing Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank are exacerbating an already dire situation for displaced Palestinians.
- 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 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.