Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns
Common infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – [...]
The ‘food heroes’ cultivating global change
People around the world who are transforming food systems in their local communities are being recognised and supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Can AI create a fairer future for persons with disabilities?
For millions of persons living with disabilities worldwide, artificial intelligence [...]
Europe’s health system under strain as doctors and nurses face mental health crisis
One in 10 doctors and nurses in Europe experience suicidal [...]
‘Never be afraid to ask for help’: Ukrainians scarred by war find space to heal
People in Ukraine who have suffered mental stress as a [...]
Ministers from Europe and beyond commit to address housing emergency
Across Europe and beyond, housing costs are rising faster than [...]
WHO says rebuilding Gaza’s shattered health system critical to a lasting peace
As indirect talks in Egypt seeking to end Gaza’s two-year [...]
Guterres urges countries to ‘seize this historic opportunity’ as renewable energy use grows
With clean energy on the rise, the UN Secretary-General renewed [...]
WHO: Despite smoking decline, tobacco still hooks one in five adults worldwide
Although there are fewer smokers now than 15 years ago, [...]
Haiti battles rabies with vaccines and vigilance
Health authorities in Haiti are turning deaths caused by rabies-infected [...]
Living in Space: The UN celebrates innovation, cooperation and the final frontier
Humanity is looking up – and beyond. This Saturday, World Space Week lifts off, inviting the world to imagine what life might look like beyond planet Earth.
Gaza health system overwhelmed as WHO reports 42,000 people have life-changing injuries
Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries [...]
World News in Brief: ‘Trust crisis’ impacts vaccine rollouts, Cyberspace must ‘serve the common good’, Türk calls for lasting truce in Lebanon
Immunisation experts at the UN World Health Organization (WHO) have [...]
Breathless in Gaza: Health crisis deepens as families burn plastic for fuel
Doctors in Gaza are warning of a surge in respiratory [...]
From crisis to community cure: A Haitian mother fights back against cholera
Faced with a deadly outbreak of cholera and a lack [...]
‘We don’t believe in giving up’ deputy UN chief tells New York festival crowd
Deputy UN Secretary-General Amina Mohammed thanked the crowd at New York’s Global Citizen Festival on Saturday for using their voice for justice and “refusing to give up on a better world.”
‘The extraordinary power of ordinary people’: World leaders spotlight youth as agents of progress
Young people are at the heart of the world’s most [...]
World News in Brief: New declaration on NCDs and mental health, Khartoum shelter crisis, WFP lifeline in Ukraine, South Sudan rights update
World leaders have thrown their weight behind the first-ever United Nations global [...]
Mental health takes centre stage at the General Assembly
For the first time, mental health is the focus of [...]
‘Africa’s voice is not heard’: Leaders issue call for equity, justice and courage
On the third day of the General Assembly’s high-level debate, African leaders delivered a resounding and unified message: the United Nations must undergo meaningful reform, and the global order must be reshaped to ensure fairness, equity, and representation for all nations.