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

·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...

Haiti: UN relief chief implores ‘we have to do better’ to support gang-ravaged nation

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·September 10, 2025·4 min read

“I’m ashamed on behalf of the world that we cannot find it in ourselves to be more compassionate, to be more kind, to recognise what people here are going through,” said Tom Fletcher, who heads the UN emergency relief agency, OCHA, during a visit to the Caribbean nation. “I listened...

Nuclear watchdog chief announces breakthrough on Iran monitoring

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·September 10, 2025·1 min read

“Indispensable” monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ended in June, agency chief Rafael Grossi said, when Israel and US-backed airstrikes targeted Iran’s nuclear power installations. At the time, the Iranian authorities confirmed that the Natanz enrichment site had been “impacted” without affecting existing radiation levels, the top IAEA...

UN rights chief denounces ‘glorification of violence’ and attack on rule of law

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·September 9, 2025·4 min read

“No one is safe when human rights are under attack,” Mr. Türk told the Human Rights Council, warning that the rules of war “are being shredded”. “Some States are becoming an extension of their ruler’s personal power,” he insisted. In his customary address to the UN’s top rights forum at...

Amid escalating attacks in Gaza, UN rights chief calls on US to withdraw sanctions against Palestinian rights groups

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·September 7, 2025·2 min read

The measures announced on Thursday target Al-Haq group, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, in relation to their support of the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, following other sanctions imposed by the US...

UN chief hails ‘remarkable example’ of Papua New Guinea as he concludes historic trip

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·September 7, 2025·2 min read

Flanked by the country’s Prime Minister, James Marape, Mr. Guterres echoed comments he made during a speech in the national parliament on Wednesday, in which he described Papua New Guineans as “champions of multilateralism and international solutions.” The Secretary-General noted that, in a world where “we see democratic values being put...

UN chief calls for justice and ‘real change’ for people of African descent

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·September 1, 2025·2 min read

In a message released ahead of the Day, Mr. Guterres honoured the “extraordinary” contributions of people of African descent across every sphere of human endeavour. The Secretary-General also recognised the “long shadows” of slavery and colonialism, which include systemic racism, unequal economies and societies, and the digital divide (between those...

‘The people of Haiti are in a perfect storm of suffering,’ warns UN chief

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·September 1, 2025·2 min read

Six million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, while 1.3 million people – half of them children – having been forced to flee their homes, he added. ‘Shamefully overlooked’ Haiti now ranks among the five hunger hotspots worldwide that are of “highest concern,” said the UN chief. Yet it...

Teachers are the ‘guardians of our future’, says UN deputy chief

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·August 31, 2025·3 min read

Their work, said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, is “the beating heart of education, the cornerstone of sustainable development, and the guardians of our future.” Speaking Thursday at the opening of the UNESCO World Summit on Teachers in Santiago, Chile, Ms. Mohammed called for urgent global action to address the...

Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief

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·August 22, 2025·3 min read

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the results of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis were no mystery: “It is a man-made disaster, a moral indictment – and a failure of humanity itself. “Famine is not about food; it is the deliberate collapse of the systems needed for human...

UN rights chief decries ‘relentless intensification’ of US sanctions against International Criminal Court staff

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·August 22, 2025·1 min read

His call comes a day after four more Court personnel – two judges and two deputy prosecutors – were slapped with sanctions in connection with efforts to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the US and Israel. This follows sanctions imposed earlier on four other judges and the ICC Prosecutor....

Amid massive destruction of Gaza City, UN chief renews ceasefire call

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·August 21, 2025·4 min read

“It is vital to reach immediately a ceasefire in Gaza,” the Secretary-General told reporters on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), “and the unconditional release of all hostages and to avoid the massive death and destruction that a military operation against Gaza City would inevitably cause.”...