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Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice

·June 13, 2025·3 min read

Away from the cameras and fanfare of the Third UN Ocean Conference under way in the coastal French city, they voiced a shared determination to finalize this year a global treaty that could, for the first time, regulate plastics across their entire life cycle. “There is renewed commitment to conclude...

Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA

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·June 10, 2025·1 min read

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) unveiled its flagship State of World Population report on Tuesday, warning that a rising number of people are being denied the freedom to start families due to skyrocketing living costs, persistent gender inequality, and deepening uncertainty about the future. Titled The real fertility crisis: The...

UN searches for solutions to global housing crisis

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·May 30, 2025·1 min read

This includes more than 1.12 billion people living in slums or informal settlements. An additional 300 million face absolute homelessness, lacking any form of stable shelter, UN-Habitat estimates. Living without The crisis is particularly acute in rapidly urbanising regions such as Africa and the Asia-Pacific. As cities grow, housing development...

World Health Assembly opens amid high-stakes pandemic treaty vote, global funding crisis

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·May 19, 2025·4 min read

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, urged Member States to remain focused on shared goals even amid global instability. “We are here to serve not our own interests, but the eight billion people of our world,” he said in his keynote address at the Palais des Nations....

In Berlin, broad backing for UN peacekeeping as global threats mount

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·May 15, 2025·2 min read

UN Secretary-General António Guterres meanwhile warned that peace operations are under growing strain and must adapt to meet today’s rising threats. The two-day conference on peacekeeping, hosted by the Government of Germany, brought together over 1,000 participants – including defence and foreign ministers – to reaffirm commitment to the UN’s...

‘Politically unacceptable, morally repugnant’: UN chief calls for global ban on ‘killer robots’

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·May 14, 2025·2 min read

“There is no place for lethal autonomous weapon systems in our world,” Mr. Guterres said on Monday, during an informal UN meeting in New York focused on the use and impact of such weapons. “Machines that have the power and discretion to take human lives without human control should be...

Guterres welcomes election of Pope Leo ‘at a time of great global challenges’

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·May 12, 2025·2 min read

His Holiness Pope Leo XIV – born Robert Francis Prevost – is the first person from the United States to lead the Catholic Church, although he also holds Peruvian citizenship after working in the Latin American country for many years. He was selected by cardinals voting at the Vatican and...

UN warns copper shortage risks slowing global energy and technology shift

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·May 11, 2025·3 min read

In its latest Global Trade Update, released this week, UNCTAD describes copper as “the new strategic raw material” at the heart of the rapidly electrifying and digitising global economy. But with demand set to rise more than 40 per cent by 2040, copper supply is under severe strain –...

WHO chief laments most disruptive cuts to global health funding ‘in living memory’

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·May 5, 2025·1 min read

“We are living through the greatest disruption to global health financing in memory,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He cautioned that abrupt withdrawals of funding are jeopardising hard-won medical progress, including efforts to combat tropical diseases, which are now re-emerging in some regions. “This is just the tip...

Haiti crisis could impact regional and global stability

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·April 20, 2025·1 min read

As heavily armed gangs expand their control and public institutions are facing intense pressure, delivering humanitarian aid on the ground is becoming harder as funding is dwindling. “Haiti has not received the level of attention or funding that is so desperately needed,” said Ms. Pope. Just returned from a high-level...

Global growth on recessionary path amid trade tensions and uncertainty

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·April 19, 2025·1 min read

The projection is below the 2.5 per cent threshold widely viewed as signalling a global recession. It also represents a significant deceleration compared to average annual growth rates prior to the COVID-19 pandemic when global growth was already subdued. Threats and volatility The report cited mounting threats including trade policy...

US tariffs move could see three per cent fall in global trade, says top UN economist

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·April 12, 2025·2 min read

“There will be shifting, I think, in supply chains, there will be a reassessment of global alliances. There will be geopolitical shifts and economic as well,” said Pamela Coke-Hamilton, head of the International Trade Centre (ITC). Speaking in Geneva after Wednesday’s announcement by the White House of a 90-day pause...