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International Criminal Court: Sanctions threaten global fight against impunity

·November 12, 2025·2 min read

Annalena Baerbock’s statement came as the assembly discussed the ICC’s annual report in the light of United States’ sanctions imposed on judges and prosecutors this year. The sanctions stem from an executive order in February in response to the UN-backed court issuing arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister and then...

Trapped behind bars: Reforming Haiti’s broken detention system

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·November 12, 2025·5 min read

Most of those people died “as a result of lack of medical care, unsanitary cells, insufficient food, and limited access to drinking water,” according to the latest UN human rights report about the situation in the Caribbean island nation. Haiti is facing a dire humanitarian, political and security crisis due...

Keeping cool on a hotter planet: COP30 pushes for sustainable cooling and AI innovation

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·November 12, 2025·4 min read

AI is already helping farmers predict droughts and manage crops more efficiently, but the environmental cost of training large models and running vast data centres is raising alarms. Meanwhile, cooling – once seen as a luxury, now a survival need in many parts of the world – remains one of...

Sudan war: Women endure starvation, rape and bombs fleeing El Fasher

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·November 11, 2025·3 min read

“Women speaking to us from El Fasher, the heart of Sudan’s latest catastrophe, tell us that they’ve endured starvation…displacement, rape and bombardment,” Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, told reporters in Geneva. “Pregnant women have given birth in the streets as the last remaining maternity...

Social development, up close: UN News goes inside the Doha summit

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·November 11, 2025·1 min read

At the Second World Summit for Social Development in Doha, our team piloted a quick, digestible format designed to bring readers closer to the action – what’s actually being said, decided and debated in real time. Working side by side with the UN’s Meetings Coverage Section – the Press Officers...

Gazans continue heading home as ‘fragile ceasefire’ holds

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·November 11, 2025·1 min read

A month into the ceasefire in Gaza, families continue to slowly head back to their former homes and communities wherever access is allowed, the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said on Monday. ...

World News in Brief: Ukraine war update, Philippines typhoon latest, demographic shift in Europe and Central Asia

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·November 11, 2025·2 min read

Between Friday and early morning Monday, at least 15 civilians were killed and over 70 were injured, according to OCHA. On Saturday night, missile and drone attacks affected 10 regions: Chernihiv, Dnipro, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava and Sumy. Matthias Schmale, the humanitarian coordinator for the country, condemned the attacks, saying “civilians and civilian objects are...

Refugee camps set to be uninhabitable by 2050 as extreme weather worsens

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·November 10, 2025·2 min read

“Whether it is floods sweeping South Sudan and Brazil, record-breaking heat in Kenya and Pakistan, or water shortages in Chad and Ethiopia, extreme weather is pushing already fragile communities to the brink,” the UN agency said. Over the past decade, weather-related disasters accounted for 250 million internal displacements, the equivalent...

Security Council lifts terror-related sanctions on Syrian President

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·November 10, 2025·4 min read

Soon after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in early December 2024, the international community began to ease sanctions against the country, in an attempt to improve the humanitarian situation and revive the battered economy. The United States, United Kingdom and European lifted punitive measures covering around $15 billion in restricted...

Nearly a third of Jamaica’s annual wealth wiped out by Hurricane Melissa

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·November 10, 2025·1 min read

Kishan Khoday, Resident Representative for the UN Development Programme (UNDP), told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York via video conference that initial estimates of the damage added up to 30 per cent of Gross Domestic Product: “a figure that’s expected to rise.” UNDP estimates that nearly five million metric...

Safeguarding clean water access as climate threats rise

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·November 10, 2025·1 min read

“Healthcare facilities are where the vulnerable seek healing. Yet, without adequate water, sanitation and hygiene, for too many people, expected care can become inadvertent harm,” said Dr. Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Regional Director for Europe. Emphasizing that healthcare is “being tested as never before”, Dr. Kluge insisted that bolstering them is an investment in withstanding crises. As part of this...

COP30 kicks off with urgent call to deliver on climate promises and scale up finance

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·November 9, 2025·4 min read

After decades of pledges and annual summits from Kyoto to Sharm el-Sheikh, the planet keeps getting hotter and pressure on governments and big business to act – not just talk – has never been greater. Holding COP30 in Belém, at the edge of the world’s largest tropical rainforest, underscores the stakes:...