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UN Security Council rejects bid to continue Iran sanctions relief

·September 19, 2025·2 min read

The text, tabled by the Council president – the Republic of Korea – received only four votes in favour, from Russia, China, Algeria, and Pakistan, failing to secure the nine required for adoption. Denmark, France, Greece, Panama, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia, the United Kingdom, and the United States voted against....

Voices of the world gather at the UN: What you need to know about UNGA80

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·September 19, 2025·6 min read

Representatives from all 193 UN Member States – along with two Observer delegations – will take the floor during the Organization’s general debate, held in the iconic General Assembly Hall. Meanwhile around the UN campus, a series of high-level meetings will tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity....

‘No end’ expected to floods and storms as global heating continues

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·September 19, 2025·2 min read

“Water-related hazards continue to cause major devastation this year,” said Celeste Saulo, WMO Secretary-General. “The latest examples are the devastating monsoon flooding in Pakistan, floods in South Sudan and the deadly flash floods in the Indonesian island of Bali. And unfortunately, we see no end to this trend.” Ms. Saulo...

Sudan: UN relief chief welcomes progress towards three-month truce

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·September 19, 2025·1 min read

“Welcome progress from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and the US towards urgently needed 3-month humanitarian truce in Sudan,” Mr. Fletcher wrote on social media. “We stand ready to deliver,” he added. “Safe, unhindered access is key.” The joint statement made by the four countries comes amid Sudan’s spiralling crisis of violence, hunger...

Afghanistan faces ‘perfect storm’ of crises, UN warns

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·September 18, 2025·4 min read

Roza Otunbayeva, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, told ambassadors that while the country has seen a relative decline in armed conflict since the Taliban takeover in 2021, the humanitarian, economic and human rights situation has deteriorated significantly. “It is an open question whether there is sufficient pragmatism among the...

Healing the ozone layer: ‘Guided by science, united in action’

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·September 18, 2025·2 min read

Last century, scientists confirmed the alarming reality of a significant depletion in the ozone layer – an invisible shield of gas which surrounds the earth and protects it from the sun’s UV rays. The collection of ozone-depleting substances included CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons, which in the mid-1980s were commonly found in...

World News in Brief: Migrant medics mean shortages at home, UN names top innovators, Nigeria rights update, sunscreen an ‘essential medicine’

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·September 17, 2025·3 min read

A new UN health agency report also shows that in Europe in 2023, six in 10 medics trained outside the region, while the number is even higher for nurses. In light of these findings – and the fact that many western and northern European countries are becoming “heavily dependent” on these foreign...

Ahead of high-stakes General Assembly week, Guterres urges world leaders to ‘get serious – and deliver’

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·September 17, 2025·2 min read

Speaking at a press conference at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday in New York, he warned that global divisions, conflicts and crises have taken the very principle of international cooperation to its most fragile inflection point in decades. “Some call it the World Cup of diplomacy,” Mr. Guterres said. “But...

Thirsty and starving, Gazans face ‘inhumane’ evacuation

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·September 17, 2025·1 min read

The development followed reports that the Israeli military has stepped up its ground offensive in Gaza City, ordering residents to leave the area. Speaking from the south of the enclave, UNICEF’s Tess Ingram described the forced mass displacement of families as a “deadly threat for the most vulnerable”. “It is...

Government corruption fuels human rights crisis in South Sudan, independent panel finds

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·September 17, 2025·1 min read

Based on two years of independent investigations and analysis, the report reveals how oil and non-oil revenues are siphoned off through opaque schemes and politically connected contracts. Meanwhile, millions of South Sudanese are denied basic services. “Our report tells the story of the plundering of a nation: corruption is not...

LIVE: Middle East updates; Gaza war ‘morally, politically, and legally intolerable,’ says Guterres

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·September 16, 2025·1 min read

Amid reports of intensifying bombardment in Gaza City overnight, the Middle East crisis took centre stage at the UN on Tuesday, starting at the global body’s Geneva headquarters, where Israel rejected allegations of genocide by an international panel of independent human rights investigators. The development came ahead of an urgent...

Gaza: Top independent rights probe alleges Israel committed genocide

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·September 16, 2025·3 min read

In a new report published against the backdrop of intensifying Israeli military operations in Gaza City, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, urged Israel and all countries to fulfil their obligations under international law “to end the genocide” and...