The world’s water resources face growing pressure from climate change while emergencies involving the life-giving resource are increasingly impacting lives and livelihoods, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
During a year of escalating global turmoil – from widening wars and economic hardship to the relentless advance of the climate crisis – the United Nations has held its ground, working to promote peace, drive sustainable development, and ease human suffering.
Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a stark call to world leaders on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly’s high-level week, warning that a “global crisis” of war, climate change, inequality and technological risk demands urgent, coordinated action.
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning on [...]
Every year on 16 September, the UN celebrates the international [...]
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on [...]
More than 351 million women and girls could still be living in extreme poverty by the end of the decade if current trends persist.
The ongoing humanitarian response to the devastating Afghanistan earthquake disaster [...]
School meals are a crucial way out of poverty into [...]
More than 720,000 people commit suicide every year and many [...]
Global military spending reached an unprecedented $2.7 trillion in 2024 amid intensifying wars and rising geopolitical tensions worldwide.
For the first time in history, obesity has surpassed those [...]
A senior UN aid coordination official in Afghanistan on Monday [...]
The first jolt threw Dr. Abdul Mateen Sahak out of [...]
In the heart of Indonesia’s vast tropical landscapes, the province [...]
As billions continue to breathe polluted air that causes more [...]
Speaking to journalists in the capital of Papua New Guinea [...]
As the death toll from the Afghanistan earthquake disaster jumped [...]
The Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea is proof that embracing differences can be the world’s greatest strength, the UN Secretary-General said in a speech to parliamentarians in the capital, Port Moresby, on Wednesday.
Nearly four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and [...]
