Browse by Category
Ukraine Recovery Conference: UN sounds alarm over humanitarian funding | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
The UN is becoming increasingly concerned over falling levels of humanitarian funding for civilians across war-torn Ukraine, the head of...
World Oceans Day event highlights immediate action to protect oceans | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
UN World Oceans Day, celebrated on Friday at UN Headquarters in New York, focused on “opening minds, igniting senses, and inspiring...
There is an exit off ‘the highway to climate hell’, Guterres insists | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
“It’s climate crunch time” when it comes to tackling rising carbon emissions the UN Secretary-General said on Wednesday, stressing that...
UPDATING LIVE: Guterres to lay out hard hitting truths on need for climate action | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
Welcome to our live coverage of one of the most important speeches on climate change that António Guterres has made since becoming...
World leaders demand ‘surge in action’ for sustainable development | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
UN Secretary-General António Guterres convened Heads of State and Government in New York on Wednesday to advance efforts to get...
New UNICEF report reveals severe child food poverty amid world crises | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a new report on Thursday that highlights alarming levels of child food poverty due to inequity,...
World News in Brief: Aid breakthrough for Haiti, police violence in Chicago, celebrating ‘pedal power’ | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
UN humanitarians said on Monday that they have finally been able to deliver truckloads of food to highly vulnerable people in Haiti’s...
Global AI summit tackles misinformation and deepfakes with a little ‘bot’ of help | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
The thorny issue of how to protect the unwary from deepfakes was just one of the key issues in the spotlight at a UN conference on...
AI for Good Summit: Digital and technological divide is no longer acceptable | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
With robots greeting delegates at the entrance to the venue, the AI for Good Global Summit opened on Thursday in Geneva, bringing together...
COVID-19 eliminated a decade of progress in global level of life expectancy | UN News – Global perspective Human stories
Data crunched by the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that the COVID-19 emergency reversed more than a decade of gains in...