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World News in Brief: Haiti funding cuts bite, civilian suffering intensifies in Myanmar, Belarus deaths in custody alert

·July 17, 2025·2 min read

Ongoing violence is compounding the country’s food crisis, disrupting local food production in critical areas such as the commune of Kenscoff and the Artibonite department, often considered the breadbaskets of Haiti. While the UN and its partners are responding “wherever and whenever possible,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said this Wednesday...

World News in Brief: Inter-ethnic violence in Syria, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, global information security

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·July 14, 2025·2 min read

The violence erupted two days after a Druze merchant was abducted on the highway to Damascus. The incident marks the latest episode of sectarian bloodshed in Syria, where fears among minority groups have surged since Islamist rebels toppled former dictator Bashar al-Assad in December and installed a new caretaker Government,...

She fought for the girl the world left behind: Natalia Kanem’s UN legacy

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·July 11, 2025·6 min read

She returns, over and over, to a single image: that of a ten-year-old girl – standing on the edge of adolescence, her future uncertain, and her rights still in grave doubt. “Will she be able to stay in school, graduate, and make her way through the world?” Dr. Kanem wonders....

It’s time to finance our future and ‘change course’, Guterres tells world leaders in Sevilla

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·July 1, 2025·5 min read

António Guterres issued his clarion call noting that sustainable development powered by international cooperation, is now facing “massive headwinds.” Addressing the opening session of the 4th Financing for Development Conference (FFD4) in baking hot Sevilla, Spain – basking in record high June temperatures – the Secretary-General noted multilateralism itself is...

LIVE: World leaders in Sevilla launch ambitious push to finance the future

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·June 30, 2025·1 min read

From rising debt and shrinking investment, to the aid funding crisis and struggles to meet ambitious development goals, the global financial system is failing the people it’s supposed to serve: fixing that is the challenge facing world leaders gathered in Spain’s sweltering southern jewel of Sevilla this week, as the...

‘One Earth, One Health’: Yoga Day provides respite in a tumultuous world

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·June 22, 2025·3 min read

This powerful message of International Yoga Day, observed annually on 21 June, reverberated through UN Headquarters in New York on Friday as hundreds gathered to embrace the ancient, holistic practice. A familiar tradition now each year, the North Lawn once again transformed into an open-air yoga studio overlooking the East...

World Refugee Day: telling their stories

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·June 19, 2025·3 min read

While hotspots include Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Palestine, displacement affects every region of the world. In the lead-up to World Refugee Day, Friday, the UN is spotlighting the importance of solidarity with refugees through support, solutions, and the power of storytelling. Zahra Nader: Reporting from exile Ahead of World...

Shaping a better world at Expo 2025 in Japan

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·June 15, 2025·4 min read

The UN is taking part alongside more than 150 countries and organizations at the global gathering, which carries the forward-looking theme: Designing Future Society for Our Lives. The UN Pavilion is divided into four areas; a timeline in the first area explains the history of the UN and its agencies,...

World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism

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·June 14, 2025·3 min read

Between 1 January and 30 May, at least 2,680 people – including 54 children – were killed, 957 injured, 316 kidnapped for ransom, and many more subjected to sexual violence and child gang recruitment. “Alarming as they are, numbers cannot express the horrors Haitians are being forced to endure daily,”...

The world pledged to end child labour by 2025: So why are 138 million kids still working?

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·June 11, 2025·4 min read

There are 10,000 children in Madagascar who, like Tenasoa, work in the largely unregulated mica industry. The silicate is used in paints, car parts, and cosmetics – to add a “shimmer” effect. Alongside parents and grandparents, these children toil in dangerous conditions, inhaling harmful dust particles and entering structurally unsound...

UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution ‘alive’

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·June 9, 2025·1 min read

“It is absolutely essential to keep alive the two-State solution perspective with all the terrible things we are witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank,” Mr. Guterres told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York. He was responding to a question about his message to leaders gathering at a high-level...

World News in Brief: Women’s health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation

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·June 8, 2025·4 min read

It warned that without immediate support, women and girls will continue to pay the price of this crisis with their lives, as hundreds of thousands are being left without access to emergency obstetric care or support after rape. Often suffering complications from constant distress, malnutrition, and physical exhaustion, more and...