Friday’s Daily Brief: Day of the Girl Child, mayors lead on climate emergency, Turkey Syria offensive, new statelessness pledges, extremism in social media
Our top stories for Friday: Day of the Girl Child [...]
Tuesday’s Daily Brief: UNICEF child health report, Peacekeeping operations end in Haiti, Syria-Turkey latest, Haitian migrants deported from Bahamas
A recap of Tuesday’s stories: Millions of children undernourished and [...]
Reducing disaster risk is a good investment, and ‘the right thing to do’, says Guterres
There is a strong economic case for climate resilience and [...]
UN chief praises Japanese climate resilience, as Typhoon Hagibis cleanup begins
With Typhoon Hagibis causing destruction and loss of life in [...]
After this year’s Climate Action Summit, what happens next?
People across the world need to embrace “fundamental change” in [...]
UN migration agency launches $10 million appeal to support hurricane recovery in The Bahamas
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched a $10 [...]
Monday’s Daily Brief: ‘Waste to wealth’ campaign, nuclear power and climate change, ‘dangerous nationalism’ a threat, Hammarskjöld latest
A recap of Monday’s stories: New UN-Habitat campaign converts waste [...]
Ramp up nuclear power to beat climate change, says UN nuclear chief
Without significantly increasing the use of nuclear power worldwide, it [...]
Thursday’s Daily Brief: UN chief remembers former Assembly President, Council on Africa’s Great Lakes, FAO data shows stable food prices
A recap of Thursday's stories: Guterres addresses climate emergency in [...]
UN commits to help Pacific island agriculture adapt and survive climate crisis
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) pledged on Friday [...]
UN’s Guterres: Broad climate ‘movement’ has begun, but there’s a long way to go
When it comes to the climate emergency, “we have a [...]
Delhi Declaration: Countries agree to make ‘land degradation neutrality’ by 2030, a national target for action
A major UN conference on fighting desertification agreed on Friday [...]
UN staff support youth-driven global action on climate crisis
Staff at UN Headquarters in New York joined untold numbers [...]
Ahead of UN summit, leading scientists warn climate change ‘hitting harder and sooner’ than forecast
Top climate scientists issued a report on Sunday showing that [...]
Nauru President warns of possible climate change ‘economic Armageddon’
Climate change is putting Pacific tuna fish stocks at risk, [...]
‘We may be small islands, but no man is an island’, Papua New Guinea youth tells world leaders
“All of us from small islands can relate to the [...]
Treat climate crisis with ‘greatest urgency’, Bahamas leader tells UN Assembly
Hurricane Dorian, one of the most destructive Atlantic storms ever [...]
Human Rights Briefing: Updates on Egypt, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia
Here’s a roundup of human rights news this Friday: UN’s [...]
Countries violate rights over climate change, argue youth activists in landmark UN complaint
The failure of governments to act on the climate crisis, [...]
Earth’s oceans and frozen spaces paying price for ‘taking the heat of global warming’
Our oceans and frozen spaces have been “taking the heat” [...]