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World News in Brief: Sudan aid update, child migrant deaths at sea, nursing shortages, invasive pest scourge

8 hours 54 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Sudan aid update, child migrant deaths at sea, nursing shortages, invasive pest scourge 12 May 2025 © WFP/Abubakar Garelnabei A WFP humanitarian convoy heads from Port Sudan to deliver lifesaving food aid to conflict-affected communities. The UN expressed deep concern on Monday over the impact of ongoing drone attacks on civilian infrastructure across Sudan…

UN chief calls for major reforms to cut costs and improve efficiency

8 hours 54 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief calls for major reforms to cut costs and improve efficiency 12 May 2025 UN Photo/Rick Bajornas The Secretariat building at United Nations Headquarters, in New York. Amid financial strain and growing global challenges, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is pushing for wide-ranging structural reforms to enhance the world body’s effectiveness…

Gaza: Guterres hails hostage release, renews ceasefire call

8 hours 54 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Guterres hails hostage release, renews ceasefire call 12 May 2025 UN News Large parts of Gaza have been reduced to rubble. UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the release of a hostage held in in Gaza on Monday and renewed his call for a permanent ceasefire and greater humanitarian access to the war-torn enclave.…

Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps

1 day 8 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps 11 May 2025 © IOM/Haithm Abdulbaqi Player in football tournament for displaced people in Ma'rib, Yemen Every summer in Ma’rib, Yemen, a place marked by loss and uncertainty, a football tournament offers a rare kind of hope. For hundreds of displaced youth living across more than a dozen sites, it’s a chance to unite, to belong,…

Guterres welcomes India-Pakistan ceasefire

2 days 8 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres welcomes India-Pakistan ceasefire 10 May 2025 © PTI Dal Lake, Srinagar (file) Following pronouncements of an end to hostilities between India and Pakistan, neighbouring nuclear powers, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said that the organisation stands ready to support efforts aimed at promoting peace and stability in the region…

‘We can do better’ for pedestrian and cyclist safety worldwide

2 days 8 hours ago Breadcrumb Home ‘We can do better’ for pedestrian and cyclist safety worldwide 10 May 2025 UN News Bicycle lanes outside the UN Headquarters in New York City. A cycling network expanded from 70 kilometres to over 400 kilometres in Fortaleza, Brazil. A project to create a bike lane in every street of Paris. And the longest pedestrian and cycle tunnel in the world, in the Norwegian coastal city of Bergen.…

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Closes One Hundred and Fifteenth Session, Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Gabon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, Republic of Korea and Ukraine

3 days 5 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Closes One Hundred and Fifteenth Session, Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Gabon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, Republic of Korea and Ukraine 09 May 2025 Meeting Summaries The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon closed its one hundred and fifteenth session, during which it reviewed the reports of Gabon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius,…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

3 days 6 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 09 May 2025 UN Geneva Press Briefing  Rolando Gómez of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme,…

Costa Rica’s refugee lifeline at breaking point amid funding crisis

3 days 8 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Costa Rica’s refugee lifeline at breaking point amid funding crisis 09 May 2025 © UNHCR/Carolina Fuentes Lillian and her four children at their home in Cartago, Costa Rica who fled Nicaragua six years ago. Costa Rica’s long-standing commitment to protecting refugees is under threat as severe funding cuts cripple support for surging numbers of Nicaraguan asylum seekers, the UN refugee agency…

Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use aid as ‘bait’

3 days 8 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use aid as ‘bait’ 09 May 2025 UNRWA A displaced girl waits her turn to get some water for her family in the city of Rafah in Gaza. Israel’s plan to take control of relief assistance in Gaza would put civilian lives in danger and cause mass displacement while using aid as “bait”, UN humanitarians said on Friday…