News from the United Nations
- Hundreds of thousands of Afghans forced back into danger, says UNHCR April 29, 2025Afghanistan’s escalating humanitarian crisis is being compounded by the mass return of its nationals from neighbouring countries, UN aid agencies warned on Tuesday.
- Children in Gaza ‘going to bed starving’ amid blockade April 29, 2025The biggest UN aid agency in Gaza on Tuesday condemned the two-month Israeli blockade that has left families eating barely enough to survive amid daily bombings – and the sick and injured without lifesaving medical help.
- MIDDLE EAST LIVE: Guterres tells Security Council two-State solution ‘near point of no return’ April 29, 2025The Security Council has been meeting on the Middle East, with Secretary-General António Guterres telling ambassadors that irreversible action must be taken to finally put a two-State solution in place for Israel and Palestine. Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens, with reports from the UN Palestine refugee relief agency (UNRWA) that children are "going […]
- Myanmar quake: Ongoing aftershocks spread fear April 29, 2025Aftershocks continue to sow fear across Myanmar, where millions remain in desperate need of humanitarian aid a full month since a 7.7 magnitude earthquake killed more than 3,800 people and injured 5,100.
- UN warns of $4 trillion shortfall threatening global development goals April 28, 2025Facing a staggering $4 trillion annual financing gap for development and mounting trade wars, top UN officials on Monday called for urgent action to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals and revive international cooperation.
- ‘Season of war,’ as norms of humanitarian law ‘cast aside’ UN refugee chief April 28, 2025Thousands of lives have been “destroyed in the pursuit of supremacy”, as international humanitarian law has been “dismissed” and “cast aside”, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, on Monday.
- Gazans face hunger crisis as aid blockade nears two months April 28, 2025Surviving on one meal a day and stretching out rapidly dwindling food rations have become a desperate reality in the Gaza Strip, where humanitarian aid has been blocked for nearly two months.
- World News in Brief: Sudan aid challenges, Myanmar quake update, UN support for victims of sexual abuse April 28, 2025Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is deepening as escalating violence blocks aid deliveries and forces thousands more civilians to flee, the UN warned on Monday.
- UN launches network to support victims and survivors of terrorism April 28, 2025A new UN initiative aims to drive collective action to support the rights and needs of people everywhere whose lives have been upended by the continuing threat posed by terrorism.
- Israel’s restrictions on UN agencies in Gaza highlighted at world court April 28, 2025The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearings on Monday into Israel’s continuing severe restrictions on the work of the UN and other international organizations in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).