remains Archives - Career Meaning

UN watchdog warns Ukraine war remains world’s biggest threat to nuclear safety

·January 31, 2026·2 min read

Addressing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors, Director General Rafael Grossi said the agency remains focused on preventing a nuclear accident as fighting continues to endanger critical infrastructure. “The conflict in Ukraine is about to enter its fifth year,” Mr. Grossi said. “It continues to pose the...

World News in Brief: Deadly shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, Duterte trial update, final hostage remains recovered in Gaza, FAO boosts farming in Haiti

Uncategorized

·January 29, 2026·3 min read

In Lampedusa, Italy, three deaths have been confirmed following a search and rescue operation involving a boat that departed from Sfax, Tunisia. Survivors from the same operation reported that another boat departed from the same location and at the same time as theirs but never arrived. Separately, reports indicate that...

UN says Gaza crisis remains dire, children hardest hit

Uncategorized

·January 28, 2026·1 min read

Briefing reporters in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric described the situation as still “dire” for hundreds of thousands of families across the Strip who remain in urgent need. UN health partners have expanded basic services in recent days. As part of a catch-up vaccination campaign launched last week, more...

Security Council remains divided over Iran nuclear programme, sanctions stay in place

Uncategorized

·December 25, 2025·2 min read

“Despite intensified diplomatic efforts during the second half of 2025, there was no agreement on the way forward regarding the Iran nuclear programme,” concluded the UN’s chief diplomat, Rosemary DiCarlo. Ms. DiCarlo – the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs – reminded the Council that the best option for...

‘Yawning gap’ remains between climate adaptation funds and funding pledges

Uncategorized

·October 30, 2025·4 min read

That’s the main message in this year’s Adaptation Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). By 2035, developing nations will need well over $310 billion per year in dedicated funding to adapt to a planet increasingly altered by polluting fossil-fuel emissions, the report states. “Climate adaptation” refers to the...

Sudan: As children continue to suffer, school remains a distant hope

Uncategorized

·September 12, 2025·3 min read

After more than two years of civil war, more than 25 million people are now acutely hungry and at least 20 million require health services urgently. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) also warned that displaced families in some areas have not received any aid for three months, as it announced...

Terror threat posed by ISIL ‘remains volatile and complex,’ Security Council hears

Uncategorized

·August 21, 2025·2 min read

While multiple Da’esh leaders have perished in the past few years, “the group has managed to retain its operational capacity”, Vladimir Voronkov, head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) told the Security Council Wednesday. Da’esh makes use of regional and domestic affiliates and continues to receive substantial global...

While Gaza ceasefire remains elusive, UN readies for conference around Israel-Palestine two-State solution

Uncategorized

·July 28, 2025·3 min read

“It’s not a peace conference,” Bob Rae, Canada’s Ambassador to the UN, told UN News ahead of the event, mandated by the General Assembly, in which his country will play a leading role. “It’s a way of trying to maintain the debate and get beyond the sticking points to the...

West Bank security situation remains alarming, warn UN aid agencies

Uncategorized

·February 26, 2025·2 min read

The violence has seen exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants – and the use of bulldozers in refugee camps for the first time in 20 years which have destroyed public services, including vital electricity and water networks. Israel’s defence minister said on Sunday forces could remain in...

UN chief condemns ‘abhorrent and appalling’ treatment of hostages’ remains by Hamas

Uncategorized

·February 24, 2025·2 min read

Hamas militants said the bodies of the four people who were returned to Tel Aviv on Thursday morning were those of a mother and two children from the Bibas family, along with 84-year-old peace activist Oded Lifshitz. It is the first time that Hamas – which has controlled the Gaza...

Human rights situation in Haiti remains ‘very alarming’, UN report finds

Uncategorized

·February 5, 2025·2 min read

Released on Tuesday, the new report highlights that at least 5,626 people have been killed and more than 2,213 injured in the past year, due to the armed gangs who control much of the capital and the country at large. These figures reflect a sharp increase of over 1,000 fatalities...

Four years after the coup, Myanmar remains on the brink

Uncategorized

·January 30, 2025·3 min read

Myanmar’s Enduring Polycrisis: Four Years into a Tumultuous Journey, launched on Wednesday, points to the bleak picture of a nation in freefall, with nearly half the population living below the poverty line, essential services crumbling and the economy in disarray. With no political resolution in sight, the crisis is expected...