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Balancing biodiversity at global UN summit in Colombia

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Balancing biodiversity at global UN summit in Colombia 29 October 2024 © Unsplash/Dulcey Lima A hummingbird hovers over an orange flower. Countries from around the world are meeting in the Colombian city of Cali, to discuss how best to protect biological diversity and develop a lasting blueprint that will allow humankind to live in harmony with nature…

Sudan’s ‘living nightmare’ continues as 11 million flee war, mass killings

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan’s ‘living nightmare’ continues as 11 million flee war, mass killings 29 October 2024 © WFP/Abubakar Garelnabei أم تحمل رضيعها في بورت سودان، شرق السودان. Escalating violence and new atrocities in Sudan have pushed the humanitarian crisis to unprecedented levels, with displacement now exceeding 11 million people amid reports of mass killings and systematic-sexual violence across…

Greenhouse gases surged to new highs in 2023, warns UN weather agency

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Greenhouse gases surged to new highs in 2023, warns UN weather agency 28 October 2024 © ЮНЕП/T. Браун Темпы отступления ледников ускорились. New data released by the UN on Monday indicating that greenhouse gases have hit a record high shows once again that urgent action and not words is needed from the world’s major polluters to protect us all from climate change, the World Meteorological…

Gaza: No let-up in Israeli military offensive, situation ‘only getting worse’

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: No let-up in Israeli military offensive, situation ‘only getting worse’ 28 October 2024 © UN Women/Samar Abu Elouf A woman walks next to her destroyed house in the Palestine Stadium area in central Gaza City. (file) After a weekend of continuing Israeli military operations throughout the Gaza Strip and especially the north, UN humanitarians warned on Monday that the already dire aid…

Sudan trapped in a ‘nightmare of violence’, UN chief tells Security Council

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan trapped in a ‘nightmare of violence’, UN chief tells Security Council 28 October 2024 © WFP/Leni Kinzli A boy walks in the Al Salaam camp for displaced people in North Darfur. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Monday the people of Sudan are trapped in a “nightmare of violence, hunger, disease and displacement”, as the brutal war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and…

UN official urges more ambitious, credible climate action plans

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN official urges more ambitious, credible climate action plans 28 October 2024 © Unsplash/Ehud Neuhaus Harmful gasses continue to be released into the atmosphere across the world. Proposed actions by countries to mitigate the worsening impacts of climate change “fall miles short of what is needed,” according to a major UN report has revealed on Monday…

Middle East crisis: Live updates from the Security Council and UN across the region

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Middle East crisis: Live updates from the Security Council and UN across the region 28 October 2024 © WHO A joint UN mission in northern Gaza helped transfer some patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Shifa Hospital. Thanks for joining us for the latest breaking news over the day, including from UN staff on the ground, dispatches from Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region and the Israeli…

France: Hijab ban during sports, ‘discriminatory and must be reversed’ say experts

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home France: Hijab ban during sports, ‘discriminatory and must be reversed’ say experts 28 October 2024 © IOM/Anjam Rasool Mosul Girls Football Club, Iraq Independent human rights experts on Monday called on France to reverse bans that prevent Muslim women and girls who wear the hijab from participating in sports, citing concerns that these restrictions are discriminatory and violate…

Israeli Knesset vote on UNRWA set to deepen Palestinian suffering

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Israeli Knesset vote on UNRWA set to deepen Palestinian suffering 28 October 2024 © UNRWA UNRWA continues to offer support to people in Gaza. Monday’s vote by the Israeli Knesset banning the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) contradicts principles of the UN Charter, violates Israel’s obligations under international law, and sets a dangerous precedent, the head of the Agency, Philippe…

UN chief ‘shocked’ at harrowing death and destruction in north Gaza

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief ‘shocked’ at harrowing death and destruction in north Gaza 27 October 2024 UN Photo/Mark Garten Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the press on the situation in Sudan. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed shock at the “harrowing levels of death, injury and destruction” in north Gaza amid an ongoing intense Israeli military operation, his Spokesperson said on…