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US aid cuts will make world ‘less healthy, less safe and less prosperous’: Guterres

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home US aid cuts will make world ‘less healthy, less safe and less prosperous’: Guterres 28 February 2025 UN Photo/Manuel Elías Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to the press at the UN Headquarters, in New York. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday that severe cuts to humanitarian and development funding by the United States will have devastating consequences for…

Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps 28 February 2025 © IAEA/D. Calma Continuity of evidence is important to ensure chain of custody in any investigation that involves nuclear forensics. There were just under 150 incidents of illegal or unauthorised activity involving nuclear and other radioactive material reported last year, according to the…

Children already dying in Sudan’s stricken Zamzam camp: WFP

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Children already dying in Sudan’s stricken Zamzam camp: WFP 28 February 2025 WFP/Mohamed Galal Food aid is delivered to displaced people in Zamzam camp in North Darfur. UN humanitarians on Friday warned again that thousands of families could starve in the coming weeks inside the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur…

Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature 28 February 2025 © WWF-International/Suyash_Kesh A tiger at Bandhavgarh National Park, India. Governments on Friday reached agreement on a strategy to raise an additional $200 billion each year to better protect the world’s flora and fauna by 2030…

‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief 28 February 2025 © UNICEF/Minzayar Oo Rains lash an internally displaced persons camp in northern Myanmar. (file) Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday, describing conditions there as “a litany of human suffering…

Packed with promise: Wisam’s journey back to school in Sudan

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Packed with promise: Wisam’s journey back to school in Sudan 27 February 2025 © UNICEF/Ahmed Mohamdeen Elfatih Wisam is among many children returning to school in Port Sudan amid the ongoing war. Wisam sits in her classroom, absorbed in her work, her fingers gripping a blue-coloured pencil, carefully sketching a flower in her notebook, one of more than 100,000 displaced students in war-torn…

UN agencies condemn Thailand’s deportation of Uyghurs to China

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN agencies condemn Thailand’s deportation of Uyghurs to China 27 February 2025 © UNODC/Laura Gil A detainee behind bars. (file) The UN human rights office (OHCHR) together with refugee agency, UNHCR, on Thursday strongly condemned Thailand’s deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China, calling it a serious violation of international law and the fundamental principle of non-refoulement…

DR Congo: WHO tracks deadly mysterious illness

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo: WHO tracks deadly mysterious illness 27 February 2025 © WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) is investigating community deaths in Équateur province in DRC. Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are carrying out further investigations to determine the cause of another cluster of illness and deaths in…

Human Rights Council: Türk calls out ‘dehumanizing’ narratives on Gaza

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Human Rights Council: Türk calls out ‘dehumanizing’ narratives on Gaza 27 February 2025 © UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel Un niño es vacunado contra la polio en Jabalia, en el norte de la Franja de Gaza. UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the “abhorrent, dehumanizing narratives” that continue to hamper a positive outcome to the Middle East crisis…

UN chief calls for peace and justice as Ramadan begins

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief calls for peace and justice as Ramadan begins 27 February 2025 UNFPA Bangladesh/Allison Joyce UN Secretary-General António Guterres (center) meeting with Rohingya refugees during a visit to Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh in July 2018. As Muslims around the world prepare to mark the beginning of the Holy Month of Ramadan, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a call on Thursday for…