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Choose compassion, reject cruelty to end HIV, says top UN rights official

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Choose compassion, reject cruelty to end HIV, says top UN rights official 06 March 2025 © UNAIDS/Cynthia R Matonhodze A woman living with HIV receives medication at a hospital in Zimbabwe. Global efforts to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic continue to remain insufficient, with deadly consequences, the UN Human Rights Council heard on Thursday…

UN emergency aid fund releases $110 million for neglected humanitarian crises

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN emergency aid fund releases $110 million for neglected humanitarian crises 06 March 2025 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba Children and their families in central Gaza receive winter clothes. Amid deep cuts to global humanitarian funding, the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund, CERF, on Thursday allocated $110 million to neglected crises across Africa, Asia and Latin America…

One in four countries report backlash against women’s rights in 2024

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home One in four countries report backlash against women’s rights in 2024 06 March 2025 © UN Women/Rossana Fraga Women in Brazil highlight the importance of access to sport. The basic rights of women and girls are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections -and less funding for programmes and institutions which support and…

Sudan: Access to stricken Zamzam camp ‘is nearly impossible’

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: Access to stricken Zamzam camp ‘is nearly impossible’ 06 March 2025 © UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal A caravan full of displaced families fleeing North Darfur's El Fasher in search of safety. Across Sudan, more than 12 million people have been driven from their homes. Civilians sheltering in the vast Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region are now “nearly impossible” to…

Climate change: La Niña fades, as global heat keeps rising

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Climate change: La Niña fades, as global heat keeps rising 06 March 2025 © WMO/Aster Niel Abellano WMO says the La Niña event is expected to be short-lived. The weak but significant La Niña weather event that began in December is likely to be brief, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced.…

UN Assembly President calls for just and lasting peace in Ukraine

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN Assembly President calls for just and lasting peace in Ukraine 06 March 2025 © UNOCHA/Yurii Veres A mother and her two daughters walk past damaged buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The President of the General Assembly on Thursday renewed his call for a just, lasting and comprehensive peace between Ukraine and Russia, in line with the UN Charter and the principles of sovereign equality and…

Yemen: ‘Fear of a return to full conflict is palpable’, says UN envoy

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Yemen: ‘Fear of a return to full conflict is palpable’, says UN envoy 06 March 2025 © UNFPA Yemen Children play at an IDP camp in Yemen. After several years of fragile truce, there is a “palpable” fear of a return to all-out war in Yemen, said Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen Hans Grundberg on Thursday, briefing the Security Council…

Gaza: Israeli aid cut threatens care for most vulnerable, warns UNICEF

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Israeli aid cut threatens care for most vulnerable, warns UNICEF 05 March 2025 © UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel A boy recovers a broken bicycle in the Al-Touam area in the northern Gaza Strip. The unilateral halt to aid deliveries entering Gaza announced by the Israeli authorities on Sunday has left Gazans afraid of a return to violence and lifesaving healthcare services under threat, the UN…

‘Humanity’s future depends on investing in the machinery of peace’: UN chief

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Humanity’s future depends on investing in the machinery of peace’: UN chief 05 March 2025 © UNFCCC/Habib Samadov Activists attend a climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. “Humanity’s future depends on investing in the machinery of peace, not the machinery of war,” said Secretary-General António Guterres in a message marking the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation…

Syrians’ hopes for a better future depend on justice for the disappeared, Human Rights Council hears

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Syrians’ hopes for a better future depend on justice for the disappeared, Human Rights Council hears 05 March 2025 UN Human Rights Council /Marie Bambi Yasmen Almashan, founding member of the Caesar Families Association and part of the Free Syria’s Disappeared coalition, addresses the Human Rights Council meeting on transitional justice. The people of Syria’s painful search for a peaceful…