Stories from the UN Archive: BBC legend and UN Earth Champion
“We must feel that we are all citizens of this one planet because unless we do, we won’t solve the problems,” Mr. Attenborough said in an interview with the UN.…
UPDATING LIVE: Guterres to lay out hard hitting truths on need for climate action
Welcome to our live coverage of one of the most important speeches on climate change that António Guterres has made since becoming Secretary-General. We’re reporting live from the event in…
World heading towards new temperature records, UN weather watchdog warns
Latest forecasts from the World Meteorological Organization indicated that there was an 80 per cent likelihood that the world will see the annual average global temperature temporarily exceed 1.5°C above…
Acute food insecurity to rise in 18 ‘hunger hotspots’, warn aid agencies
Although many “hunger hotspots” are in Africa, fears of famine persist in Gaza and Sudan, where conflict continues to rage, fuelling the regional risk of new hunger emergencies, warned the…
There is an exit off ‘the highway to climate hell’, Guterres insists
Choosing the iconic Family Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History in New York to deliver his impassioned plea to grasp the solutions at hand, António…
Continuing restrictions hamper humanitarian access inside Gaza
Humanitarians said that “security and humanitarian access conditions” have been further reduced since May because of increased violence in northern and southern Gaza, especially in Rafah, where Israeli forces continue…
Top UN humanitarian laments lack of dialogue to resolve conflict
“I leave this job with a sense of work unfulfilled because the world is a worse place now than when I joined up in 2021,” Martin Griffiths said in his…
More than 500 Palestinians killed in occupied West Bank: UN rights chief
Two of the latest fatalities were 16-year-old Ahmed Ashraf Hamidat and 17-year-old Mohammed Musa Al Bitar, both shot “at a distance of about 70 metres while running away after throwing…
War must never be normalized for child victims: Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine
In remarks to commemorate the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, Denise Brown also noted that boys and girls in frontline regions have had to spend the equivalent…
Little protection for the vulnerable, even on major migration routes: UNHCR
A new report from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) confirmed that each year, hundreds of thousands of people risk their lives to migrate from sub-Saharan countries in Africa without access…