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Four winters on, UN in Ukraine continues to deliver aid under fire

·October 23, 2025·2 min read

From providing emergency care and evacuation support, to repairing bombed energy plants, UN humanitarian workers are delivering despite reduced resources, an expanding frontline and direct attacks on their colleagues. The widespread use of drones and glide bombs in the Ukraine war means that a large swath of the country is...

UN urges opening of all Gaza crossings to deliver three-month food supply

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·October 17, 2025·3 min read

The agency says it already has enough supplies in place to feed the entire population of the Strip for three months – if full access is granted by Israel. One week into the fragile ceasefire, WFP has been bringing in an average of 560 tonnes of food each day. “The...

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...

UN says Sri Lanka has ‘historic opportunity’ to end impunity, deliver justice

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·August 14, 2025·2 min read

The 26-year conflict, from 1983 to 2009, pitted Government forces against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – more commonly referred to as the Tamil Tigers – who sought an independent state for the island’s Tamil minority in the north and east. The civil war claimed an estimated...

UN urges MPs to deliver on development promises for 600 million in landlocked nations

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·August 4, 2025·2 min read

Speaking at Monday’s Parliamentary Forum of the Third UN Conference on LLDCs, senior UN leaders stressed that political will, matched with national legislative action, is essential if a new decade-long development plan is to make a real difference. There are 32 such countries globally, home to over half a billion...

Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist

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·June 14, 2025·3 min read

The humanitarian network is currently at a standstill because the internet shut down earlier this week after the last fibre cable route serving central and southern areas was cut during heavy fighting. “As the outage continues, partners are unable to communicate or coordinate response activities, and people in need remain...

UNRWA ‘continues to deliver’ as Israeli ban comes into effect

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·January 31, 2025·1 min read

“UNRWA continues to deliver assistance and services to the communities we serve,” the agency said in a post on the social media platform X. “Our clinics across the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem are open while the humanitarian operation in Gaza continues.” No official word Last October, the Israeli...

Aid trucks deliver food to northwest Syria

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·January 2, 2025·1 min read

UN aid coordination office, OCHA, reported that the cross-border operation from Türkiye into the northwest is running without impediments. On Tuesday, 21 trucks carrying 500 metric tonnes of food – enough for 175,000 people – from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) crossed into Idlib through the Bab Al-Hawa border...

Will COP29 deliver the trillions needed to tackle the man-made climate crisis?

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·November 16, 2024·6 min read

Can countries agree on a new climate finance target? The UN’s main climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has issued increasingly dire warnings about the accelerating pace of global warming. To limit temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, substantial investments are needed in clean energy...

World News in Brief: Deep concern over Afghan arrests, UN commits to stay and deliver in Mali, new migrant support plan

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·January 15, 2024·3 min read

Since 1 January, in Kabul and Daykundi provinces, UNAMA has documented a series of hijab decree enforcement campaigns by the de facto Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, aided by Taliban police units. In the capital, Kabul, large numbers of women and girls have been...

WHO and partners deliver aid to two Gaza hospitals in high-risk missions

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·January 2, 2024·2 min read

Teams that undertook the high-risk missions witnessed intense hostilities in their vicinity, as well as high patient loads and overcrowding caused by people seeking refuge. They also reported that food needs remain dire across the enclave, which is impacting operations, with hungry people stopping convoys in hopes of finding something...

Gaza doctors ‘terrified’ of deadly disease outbreak as aid teams race to deliver

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·November 28, 2023·2 min read

Priorities include transporting fuel to the north of the war-torn enclave, so that it can be used to power hospitals, provide clean water and maintain other vital civilian infrastructure. Such services have been massively impacted by weeks of Israeli bombardment in response to Hamas’s 7 October massacres in southern Israel...