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Global measles cases surge as 30 million children miss vaccines, UN health agency warns

·November 28, 2025·1 min read

Officials said global outbreaks are accelerating as millions of children remain under-immunized following years of COVID-19 pandemic-related disruption. “Measles remains one of the most contagious respiratory viruses,” said Dr. Kate O’Brien, WHO’s Director of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals. “One person can infect up to 18 others. Many people think measles...

Gaza facing worst economic collapse ever recorded, UN trade agency warns

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·November 25, 2025·3 min read

Speaking at the launch of UNCTAD’s 2025 Report on the Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the agency’s Deputy Secretary-General Pedro Manuel Moreno said decades of movement restrictions, combined with the latest military operations, had “wiped out decades of progress” and left both Gaza and the West Bank facing long-term...

COP30: Climate crisis is a health crisis, WHO warns as philanthropies pledge $300m for solutions

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·November 15, 2025·3 min read

The special report on health and climate change, published by the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and the Brazilian Government, warns that one in 12 hospitals could face climate-related shutdowns. It calls for urgent action to protect health systems in a rapidly warming world. This follows Thursday’s launch of the...

Rights chief warns ‘abominable atrocities’ likely continue in Sudan’s El Fasher

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·November 9, 2025·1 min read

“Today, traumatised civilians are still trapped inside El Fasher and are being prevented from leaving,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk in a statement released on Friday. “I fear that the abominable atrocities such as summary executions, rape and ethnically motivated violence are continuing within the city.” The statement comes amid mounting reports from UN human rights watchdogs and other...

Battlefields to wastelands: UN warns conflicts are destroying ecosystems worldwide

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·November 7, 2025·2 min read

The impacts affect livelihoods, and fuel displacement as well as ongoing instability. Moreover, they can linger even after the fighting has ended. In Sierra Leone, for example, “when the guns fell silent in 2002 after a decade of conflict, our primary forests and savannahs also fell silent,” deputy foreign minister Francess Piagie Alghali told the UN Security Council on Thursday. “We witnessed loss of biodiversity, the...

New climate pledges do little to correct global warming projection, UN warns

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·November 5, 2025·2 min read

The warning comes in the latest Emissions Gap Report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), issued on Tuesday ahead of the COP30 climate conference which opens in Belém, Brazil, next week. Nearly a decade has passed since world leaders adopted the Paris Agreement, which aims to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and preferably to a 1.5°C threshold. Climate action plans...

FAO warns of ‘silent crisis’ as land degradation threatens billions

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·November 4, 2025·1 min read

The finding comes in the latest State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), released on Monday in Rome. “The report delivers a clear message: land degradation is not just an environmental issue – it impacts agricultural productivity, rural livelihoods and food security,” the UN agency said. Human activity driving degradation Land is the...

Workers face worsening inequality without urgent reforms, UN agency warns

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·November 2, 2025·1 min read

That is the warning outlined in a new assessment released on Friday by the UN International Labour Organization (ILO), which urges governments, employers and labour organizations to put dignity and workers’ rights at the centre of economic decision-making. “This report brings together the voices, experiences and proposals of trade unions...

UN warns Gaza’s displaced face freezing nights and food shortages

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·October 24, 2025·1 min read

Since the ceasefire on 10 October, the UN migration agency IOM has dispatched more than 47,000 relief items, including 2,500 tents, to help families rebuild amid devastation. “People in Gaza have endured unimaginable loss,” said IOM Director General Amy Pope. Shelter ‘not a luxury’ “Shelter isn’t a luxury; it allows...

UN envoy warns Libya’s transition at risk amid stalled political roadmap

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·October 15, 2025·2 min read

Hanna Tetteh, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, said that while some progress has been made toward implementing a UN-backed political roadmap, divisions between the House of Representatives and the High Council of State continue to block key steps needed ahead of long-awaited national elections. “The two institutions have yet...

Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns

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·October 13, 2025·2 min read

According to the agency’s latest surveillance report, antibiotic resistance rose in more than 40 per cent of the bacteria-drug combinations tracked between 2018 and 2023, with average annual increases ranging from 5 to 15 per cent. “Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide,”...

Thousands flee amid renewed fighting in northern Mozambique, UN warns

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·October 8, 2025·2 min read

The surge in displacement in late September marks a turning point in the conflict – now entering its eighth year – with more than 100,000 people already uprooted during 2025. The violence in Cabo Delgado began in 2017, led by armed groups locally known as al-Shabaab – unrelated to the...