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Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns

For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – making it easier, and more appealing, to try. This is especially true among youth users: it’s one of the main…

‘This is not just ice’: Glaciers support human livelihoods, UN deputy chief says

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed called for urgent action to protect water-related ecosystems in remarks to the International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Friday…

World News in Brief: Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti

In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intensifying conflict, intercommunal violence and mass displacement are forcing hundreds of thousands of children out of school…

UN’s lifesaving programmes under threat as budget crisis hits hard

The UN is facing a deepening budget crisis that threatens lifesaving operations worldwide. From refugee aid in Mozambique to maternal health services in Afghanistan, critical programmes are on the brink of collapse unless urgent funding is secured…

Gaza is the ‘hungriest place on earth’, as Israel continues stranglehold on aid

Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained by the Israeli authorities, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said on Friday…

Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins

In Al-Jundi Al-Majhool Square – once the bustling heart of Gaza City – music now floats among the tents. The square, transformed into a sprawling displacement camp, shelters hundreds of families driven from their homes by more than 19 months of war…

‘Justice is long overdue’: Guterres calls for reparations for enslavement and colonialism

Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his calls for Member States and the United Nations to work towards justice and reparations for Africans and the diaspora in a speech in New York on Friday. “…

Desperate hunger drives crowd to storm UN food warehouse in Gaza

Desperate hunger drove crowds of people to overrun a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday, reportedly leaving two dead and several injured in a chaotic scramble for food. UN…

Ukraine: Hopes for peace on life support, Security Council hears

A glimmer of hope for peace in Ukraine has been overshadowed by a devastating new wave of Russian attacks, UN officials told the Security Council on Thursday, warning of soaring civilian casualties and a worsening humanitarian crisis that could derail a diplomatic end to the war…

‘We are the present’: Tajik climate activist urges leaders to include youth voices in dialogue

A young activist from Tajikistan is speaking up to show that her generation can be part of the solution to combat climate change. At the end of April, Fariza Dzhobirova attended a Model United Nations…