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Gaza: $70 billion needed to rebuild shattered enclave, says UN

·October 14, 2025·4 min read

At just 41 kilometres long (25.4 miles) and two to five kilometres wide (1.2 to 3.1 miles), few places in the Gaza Strip had been left unscathed by the constant Israeli bombardment before the latest ceasefire came into effect haltingly last Friday. According to the UN Development Programme Special Representative...

WHO sounds alarm as mental health conditions soar past one billion worldwide

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·September 3, 2025·2 min read

Disorders such as anxiety and depression are exacting a heavy toll on individuals, families and economies, yet most countries are failing to provide adequate support. Mental health problems are widespread across every society and age group and remain the second leading cause of long-term disability. They drive up healthcare costs...

‘The margins of the budget’: Gender equality in developing countries underfunded by $420 billion annually

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·July 6, 2025·1 min read

“The money simply is not reaching the women and girls who need it most,” UN Women said in a news release issued on Monday. This estimate comes in the midst of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development underway in Sevilla, Spain. There, world leaders are working to...

Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature

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·March 1, 2025·3 min read

Delegates met in Rome this week for the resumption of the UN Biodiversity Conference to hammer out an agreement at COP16.2 after attempts to reach a deal on financing at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, fell short last November. It is hoped that the hard-won decisions made by parties to the UN...

Ukraine: Post-war reconstruction set to cost $524 billion

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·February 25, 2025·3 min read

The updated joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA4) commissioned by the Ukrainian Government, the World Bank Group, the European Commission and the UN, comes as Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fourth year. It covers damage incurred since intensified conflict erupted on 24 February 2022 through to 31 December 2024....

UN launches $6 billion Sudan appeal, as famine takes hold

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·February 18, 2025·4 min read

“Civilians [are] paying the highest price, shelling, airstrikes [are] continuing unabated, killing and injuring civilians, damaging and destroying critical infrastructure, including hospitals,” said Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher. “An epidemic of sexual violence rages,” he warned, adding that children are being killed and injured, amid reports of intensifying fighting in South Kordofan in...

WHO launches $1.5 billion appeal to tackle global health crises

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·January 17, 2025·1 min read

In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for $1.5 billion through its 2025 Health Emergency Appeal, to deliver life-saving health interventions worldwide. The appeal, unveiled on Thursday by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlines the urgent priorities for addressing 42 ongoing health emergencies, including 17 requiring immediate and coordinated action....

General Assembly approves $3.72 billion UN budget for 2025

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·December 25, 2024·1 min read

The approved $3.72 billion regular budget (RB) for 2025 represents an increase of about $1 million over the Secretary-General’s October proposal to the Assembly’s Fifth Committee, which oversees administrative and budgetary matters. The regular budget funds UN programmes across key areas, including political affairs, international justice and law, regional cooperation...

$1.4 billion needed for sexual and reproductive health services in crisis-hit countries

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·December 5, 2024·1 min read

The funding will be used to deliver life-saving reproductive health services and vital gender-based violence prevention programmes to more than 45 million people. The appeal comes as an estimated 11 million pregnant women will require urgent support in 2025. Record displacement and devastation UNFPA recalled that global crises displaced a record...

UNHCR secures record $1.5 billion in early funding for 2025

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·December 3, 2024·2 min read

The package includes $1.143 billion from donor governments along with a commitment of $355 million from UNHCR’s private sector National partners. This provides the agency with 15 percent of its anticipated needs for the coming year. “We live in a world ravaged by brutal and seemingly endless conflicts that tear...

Three billion people globally impacted by land degradation

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·December 2, 2024·5 min read

Abdulrahman Alfadley, the Saudi Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture was speaking as the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) got underway in the capital of the Middle Eastern country. The meeting, according to UNCCD, represents a “moonshot...

COP29 climate talks conclude with $300 billion annual pledge, but developing nations call deal ‘an insult’

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·November 24, 2024·4 min read

After two weeks of intense negotiations, delegates at COP29, formally the 29th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), agreed to provide this funding annually, with an overall climate financing target to reach “at least $1.3 trillion by 2035”. Countries also agreed on the rules...