The UN's human rights chief has said he is "horrified" by the destruction of Gaza's Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals and the reports of "mass graves" being found at the sites after Israeli raids.
Volker Türk called for independent investigations into (...)
Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year – the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened – heightening growing fears of famine and "widespread death" from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies (...)
Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, the UN (...)
Climate change shocks caused record levels of disruption and misery for millions in Europe in 2023 with widespread flooding and severe heatwaves — a new normal which countries must adapt to as a priority, the UN weather agency said on Monday.
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UN chief António Guterres issued an appeal on Monday to "actively support" the UN agency for Palestinians, UNWRA, adding that he accepted the final findings of an independent probe into the organization, launched in response to unproven allegations (...)
Following reports of alleged Israeli strikes inside Iran near a nuclear power station early Friday, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a new appeal to all parties to "stop the dangerous cycle of retaliation in the Middle East".
"The (...)
Scaling up assistance in Gaza remains a challenge in the face of continued access denials, delays and other impediments, the head of the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories said on Tuesday.
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Nearly 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza since war erupted six months ago and one child is injured or dies every 10 minutes, UN agencies warned on Tuesday, amid spiraling violence in the West Bank and concerns over a regional escalation of the (...)
The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) released on Tuesday.
The disease is the second leading infectious (...)
UN-coordinated food convoys are three times more likely to be denied access to north Gaza than other aid convoys, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, reported on Tuesday.
Israeli authorities have not given a clear reason why, said OCHA (...)
Israel must make meaningful changes in the way it is fighting in Gaza to avoid civilian casualties while also undergoing "a true paradigm shift" in lifesaving aid delivery, the UN chief said on Friday.
Marking six months of war since the "abhorrent" (...)
The humanitarian group, International Rescue Committee (IRC), says the killing of international charity workers this week by an Israeli air strike highlights that Gaza is the "most lethal place in the world to be an aid worker."
Israeli airstrikes (...)
The killing of seven aid workers from the NGO World Central Kitchen in Israeli military airstrikes in central Gaza has been strongly condemned by senior UN humanitarian officials who on Tuesday reiterated repeated concerns that "there is no safe (...)
WASHINGTON — The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women unanimously decided to choose Saudi Arabia to chair the 69th session of the commission during the year 2025.
Ambassador Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Wasel would be the first ever permanent (...)
After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a man-made famine.
It has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfill its legal responsibilities to (...)
While a third of humanity faces food insecurity, an equivalent of one billion meals go to waste every day, a new report by the UN environment agency (UNEP) revealed on Wednesday. One fifth of food is thrown away.
The UN Environment Program's Food (...)
GENEVA — Dr. Hanan Al-Ahmadi, assistant speaker of the Saudi Shoura Council, held a meeting with Tulia Ackson, the newly elected president of the IPU, during the 148th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) General Assembly meetings held at the Geneva (...)
Intense hostilities in Gaza continued on Tuesday between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces with a "double-digit number of children killed overnight" and ongoing aid delivery obstacles that are responsible for near-famine conditions, UN humanitarians (...)
One in three migrant deaths happens while people flee conflict, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday. More than two in three migrants whose deaths have been documented remain unidentified.
Last year was the deadliest on record, with 8,541 (...)
A UN human rights expert says she believes Israel has committed "acts of genocide" in Gaza.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented her report to UN member states in Geneva on (...)
RIYADH — The General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) approved the selection of Saudi Permanent Representative to the WTO Ambassador Saqer Al-Moqbel as the chair of its Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) for the year 2024-2025. The council (...)
A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 65 migrants has been found in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said.
The IOM said the circumstances of their deaths and their nationalities are still unknown but they (...)
Records were once again broken for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, ice cover and glacier retreat, a new global report issued by the UN weather agency (WMO) on Tuesday shows.
Heatwaves, (...)
Russian forces deported Bohdan Yermokhin from the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the spring of 2022, flew him to Moscow on a government plane and placed him into a foster family. He was sent to a patriotic camp near the capital where (...)
Enough aid for 25,000 people has reached Gaza City for the first time in weeks, the UN World Food Program (WFP) announced on Tuesday, in a call for daily aid missions and better access.
"WFP delivered enough food for 25,000 people to Gaza City early (...)