Armed groups continue terror campaign across Burkina Faso
High Commissioner Volker Türk said, from the capital Ouagadougou, that his local office had been “engaging intensely with the authorities, civil society actors, human...
Call for urgent agreement on international deal to prepare for and...
A high-powered intervention by 23 former national Presidents, 22 former Prime Ministers, a former UN General Secretary and 3 Nobel Laureates is being made today to...
Stories from the UN Archive: Poetic traditions at the UN
UN rumour has it that the unofficial tradition began almost 40 years ago, when a delegate from the United Kingdom requested the floor to...
Millions at risk from cholera due to lack of clean water,...
Immediate action is needed to stem an unprecedented multi-year upsurge in cholera cases worldwide, according to the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision....
Indonesia leads the way in taming forest fires
When volunteer firefighter Marlizar noticed smoke billowing over a quarter-hectare of peatland while on a routine patrol in 2019, he dispatched his colleague to their...
Conflict driving hunger crisis in Sudan, UN officials tell Security Council
“As we approach the one-year anniversary of the conflict, we cannot make clearer the desperation that civilians are facing in Sudan,” said Edem Wosornu...
Accountability essential to counter human rights abuse in DPR Korea
In an oral update to the Human Rights Council – UN’s paramount human rights body – Deputy High Commissioner Nada Al-Nashif said that DPRK...
First Person: Water key to cultivating financial independence in southern Madagascar
They live in the village of Ankilinanjosoa in Anosy, a region which has suffered a series of droughts leading to the failures of multiple...
UN rights expert urges global action to halt Myanmar junta atrocities
In February 2021 the military overthrew the elected Government in Myanmar arresting hundreds of officials, political leaders and activists, including President Win Myint and...
Hong Kong: Rushed adoption of new security law a ‘regressive step’...
“It is alarming that such consequential legislation was rushed through the legislature through an accelerated process, in spite of serious concerns raised about the...
Famine in Gaza is imminent, with immediate and long-term health consequences
The latest analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) partnership released today warns that the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, with northern...
24 million Sudanese children facing ‘generational catastrophe’
Since the conflict erupted in April 2023, pitting the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the CRC – an independent...
Iran: Repression continues two years after nationwide protests
Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran – a group of Council-appointed independent experts - said that Ms. Amini’s...
WHO urges investments for the scale up of tuberculosis screening and...
Ahead of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, which is marked on 24 March, WHO has released an investment case for TB screening and preventive treatment....
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in DR Congo
The incident occurred in the vicinity of Sake, just 20 kilometers from Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu. The wounded peacekeepers, who were part...
First Person: Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before...
The arranged marriage typically involves the exchange of a highly prized and culturally important Zebu cow for teenage girls as young as 13 years...
UN calls for united action to combat rising Islamophobia
The new resolution, tabled by Pakistan, calls for, among other things, concerted action to fight ongoing violence against Muslims and requests the UN Secretary-General...
Over 1 in 3 people affected by neurological conditions, the leading...
A major new study released by The Lancet Neurology shows that, in 2021, more than 3 billion people worldwide were living with a neurological...
WHO report reveals gender inequalities at the root of global crisis...
`A new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), “Fair share for health and care: gender and the undervaluation of health and care work"...
Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022 – UN report
The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the...
