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Guterres appeals for mediation to end crisis in eastern DR Congo

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres appeals for mediation to end crisis in eastern DR Congo 06 February 2025 UN Photo/Loey Felipe الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة، أنطونيو غوتيريش. Now is the time to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday in a briefing to journalists in New York.…

‘Step Up the Pace’ and end female genital mutilation, UN says

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Step Up the Pace’ and end female genital mutilation, UN says 06 February 2025 Courtesy of State Department for Gender and Affirmative Action, Kenya Kenyans celebrate following the signing of commitments by councils of elders to end female genital mutilation in the Samburu and Mount Elgon regions. As the world marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation…

Toxic air threatens children’s lives across East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF warns

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Toxic air threatens children’s lives across East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF warns 06 February 2025 © UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin A kindergarten teacher helps a child with a face mask before outdoor activities in Nalaikh, Mongolia. More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned in a new analysis…

It’s official: January was the warmest on record

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home It’s official: January was the warmest on record 06 February 2025 © Unsplash/Craig Manners January 2025 was the warmest since records began, at 1.75°C above the pre-industrial level. The world has just experienced the hottest January ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday, citing data crunched by UN partner the Copernicus Climate Service…

Gaza: 10,000 aid trucks reached enclave since ceasefire began

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: 10,000 aid trucks reached enclave since ceasefire began 06 February 2025 UN News A massive UN-led aid surge is underway to people in Gaza. The humanitarian community’s plan to flood Gaza with lifesaving aid passed an important milestone on Thursday with the news that more than 10,000 relief lorries have entered the enclave since the ceasefire began on 19 January…

Gaza: UN health agency urges rapid scale-up of medevacs as thousands remain in critical condition

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: UN health agency urges rapid scale-up of medevacs as thousands remain in critical condition 06 February 2025 © WHO A WHO team visits a hospital in northern Gaza to assess damage. More than 12,000 critically ill and injured patients, including at least 5,000 children, urgently need to be evacuated from Gaza, amid the crumbling health system, the UN World Health Organization (WHO)’s top…

Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Commend Nepal on Increased Representation of Women in the Public Sector, Raise Questions on the “Chhaupadi” Practice and Women’s Right to Confer Citizenship

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Commend Nepal on Increased Representation of Women in the Public Sector, Raise Questions on the “Chhaupadi” Practice and Women’s Right to Confer Citizenship 05 February 2025 Meeting Summaries  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its consideration of the seventh periodic report of Nepal, with…

‘The new generation is different’: In Djibouti, activists lobby to end female genital mutilation

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘The new generation is different’: In Djibouti, activists lobby to end female genital mutilation 05 February 2025 © UNFPA-UNICEF Women and girls in a village in Djibouti’s Tadjourah region, where a community-led movement has successfully lobbied to abandon female genital mutilation. “I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down,” said Hawa’a Mohamed Kamil, a peer educator in…

World News in Brief: US executive orders continue, killings in Sudan, breast cancer alert in Africa, human rights in Tunisia

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: US executive orders continue, killings in Sudan, breast cancer alert in Africa, human rights in Tunisia 05 February 2025 © OHCHR The UN Human Rights Council meeting on the human rights situation in Ukraine. New executive orders issued by the White House are set to further impact the cooperative, multilateral work of the United Nations, two weeks since the United States…

Explainer: How family planning saves lives

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Explainer: How family planning saves lives 05 February 2025 © UNFPA/Abdul Razzaq Zakzouq Medical workers perform an emergency operation at the Idlib Maternity Hospital in Syria. Sakina Sani was married off when she was 12 years old amid conflict and food shortages in northern Nigeria. She became pregnant at 15 but miscarried and then had two children in rapid succession…