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‘Trust and respect’ feeds interfaith rice growing success in the Philippines

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Trust and respect’ feeds interfaith rice growing success in the Philippines 30 June 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson Farmers work in the paddy fields in Liton. Trust built on decades of respect for religion has fertilized the seeds of success for two communities, one Muslim the other Christian, which have joined together to build a successful rice growing cooperative in the Philippines…

Haiti: Longing to live again, amid trauma of displacement

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: Longing to live again, amid trauma of displacement 29 June 2024 © UNOCHA/Giles Clarke Barricades preventing the flow of traffic are regularly erected in Port-au-Prince Two women from the troubled Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince have shared their traumatic experiences of rape, contracting HIV, and despairing thoughts of suicide, after multiple forced…

UN chief lauds ‘strong’ new recommendations to limit proliferation of light weapons

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief lauds ‘strong’ new recommendations to limit proliferation of light weapons 29 June 2024 UNDP/SEESAC Small arms and light weapons are collected and sorted for destruction at a facility in Serbia in 2017. The UN Secretary-General on Saturday praised the adoption of a “strong outcome document” at the end of a conference dedicated to combatting illicit small arms and light weapons…

Going back into ‘hell’: An aid worker’s journey through shattered Gaza

10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Going back into ‘hell’: An aid worker’s journey through shattered Gaza 28 June 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba People search for water in Khan Younis city in the southern the Gaza Strip. (file) Over and above the difficulty of actually getting into Gaza, aid teams now face the crushing realization that with a shortage of fuel and dwindling supplies, there is a limit to what they can do to help…

Haitian capital’s crippled health system ‘on the brink’

10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Haitian capital’s crippled health system ‘on the brink’ 28 June 2024 © UNICEF/Ralph Tedy Erol People flee the neighbourhood of Solino in Port-au-Prince following gang attacks there in May 2024. The health system in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is “on the brink” and “crippled by escalating violence” according to the UN Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) representative in the…

UN rights chief calls time on ‘economic violence’ against women and girls

10 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights chief calls time on ‘economic violence’ against women and girls 28 June 2024 UN Women/Ryan Brown Women attend a community meeting in Cameroon. On Friday, at the UN Human Rights Council's (OHCHR) first panel for the annual full-day discussion on women's rights, The UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday told a Human Rights Council panel that it’s time to eliminate laws and…

World getting a ‘failing grade’ on Global Goals report card

10 months ago Breadcrumb Home World getting a ‘failing grade’ on Global Goals report card 28 June 2024 UN Photo/Manuel Elías Displays at the United Nations Headquarters in New York illustrate the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With just six years remaining to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global progress is alarmingly insufficient, with a mere 17 per cent of the targets currently on track,…

Top UN official calls for strict compliance with sanctions on DPR Korea

10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Top UN official calls for strict compliance with sanctions on DPR Korea 28 June 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, briefs the Security Council meeting on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Any relationship that any country has with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including Russia, “must entirely abide” by…

World News in Brief: Burkina Faso, refugees and climate change, Afghan women deserve seat in Doha: CEDAW

10 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Burkina Faso, refugees and climate change, Afghan women deserve seat in Doha: CEDAW 28 June 2024 © UNHCR/Ricardo Ara An area of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, once home to refugee families, that was devastated by unprecedented floods in May 2024. Resources are desperately needed to ramp up aid supplies for Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, which is…

Stories from the UN Archive: How the UN was founded amid the ashes of war

10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: How the UN was founded amid the ashes of war 27 June 2024 UN Photo/Mitsugu Kishida Hiroshima, shortly after a nuclear bomb was dropped on this Japanese city in August 1945. (file) Take a front seat to how it all began: the birth of the United Nations amid the ashes of the Second World War that devastated continents and communities around the world…