UN News Today

UN News Today 09 October 2026

• Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay • Nepal flooding disaster could happen again without international support -UNICEF • Gaza: Almost

UN News Today 08 October 2026

• Myanmar’s spiral into poverty: UNDP • On World Sight Day, cheap reading glasses still out of reach: WHO • 235,000 Gazans living hundreds of flood-prone sites

UN News Today 07 October 2026

• Two in three child migrants travel alone to Europe • Ebola alert: WHO chief voices solidarity with Kenya and Uganda after patient dies in Nairobi • Yemen health funding

UN News Today 06 October 2026

• “Nothing can justify” 7 October attacks: Guterres • In Pakistan, UN chief calls for end to US-Iran war • Ebola robs children of the people they depend on: UNICEF

UN News Today 05 October 2026

• Sudan: Driver killed in aerial attack on clearly marked aid trucks in South Kordofan • 3.4 billion people across the globe lack adequate housing, which the UN calls a c

UN News Today 02 October 2026

• Haiti emergency: Extortion, gang violence and hunger prevail, warns UN rights chief – OHCHR • Ukraine war threatens even greater regional disaster and must end: Türk •

UN News Today 01 October 2026

• Ebola transit centre set ablaze in DR Congo camp: OCHA • Ukraine winterization needs expected to intensify: WHO • Marshall Islands nuclear legacy in Human Rights Counc

UN News Today 30 September 2026

• UN refugee agency raises concern over Myanmar returns from Malaysia • Lebanon: one in five children goes to bed hungry, says UNICEF • New alcohol policy gives booze t

UN News Today 29 September 2026

• Worsening clashes in DR Congo hamper Ebola emergency response; WHO • Harsh reality of everyday life on Ukraine’s frontline: OCHA • Yemen escalation fuels fears of chol

UN News Today 28 September 2026

• Worsening clashes in DR Congo hamper Ebola emergency response • Funding shortages threaten clean water access in Zaatari refugee camp UNICEF • Forest and landscape res

UN News Today 25 September 2026

• Yemen violence deepens concerns over child hunger crisis: UNICEF • Sudan aid support hindered by lack of funding: FAO • South Hebron demolitions heighten ethnic cleansi

UN News Today 24 September 2026

• Yemen: deepening conflict and appalling impact on civilians; OHCHR • Gaza’s economic collapse has wiped out decades of development: UNCTAD • Colombia’s new drug laws ri

UN News Today 23 September 2026

• DRC Ebola deaths well over 3,700, young children at most risk • Hunger and malnutrition fears in Somalia: WFP • Forced sterilisation of Indigenous people called out: H

UN News Today 22 September 2026

• Guterres calls for a UN strong enough to build world as it should be • 130,000 now displaced by Yemen violence UNHCR • Nicaragua: democracy ‘dismantled’, political opp

UN News Today 21 September 2026

• Ebola vaccine trial gets under way in DR Congo • Venezuela: repressive apparatus ‘has remained entirely intact’ • ‘Nowhere is safe’ in Russia, independent rights expe

UN News Today 18 September 2026

• Yemen escalation continues to force thousands from homes: agencies • Sexual violence by Russian forces is widespread against Ukraine prisoners: OHCHR monitors • Sudan

UN News Today 17 September 2026

• Yemen escalation forces 57,000 children from homes: UNICEF • The world must wake up to water cycle changes: WMO • ‘Entire’ human rights treaty body system risks crumbl

UN News Today 16 September 2026

• SG’s report on reprisals against human rights activists covers 32 countries • Stop attacking merchant ships and seafarers, says IMO chief • Families feared buried in Ga

UN News Today 15 September 2026

• DR Congo: Ebola outbreak still needs massive funding boost to contain deadly spread – OCHA, WHO • Super El Niño already causing more misery in South Sudan: WFP • Belaru

UN News Today 14 September 2026

• ‘Alarming increase’ in enforced disappearances, warns Guterres • South Sudan: UNICEF reaches communities in Jonglei State cut off by war • Gaza: Another strike on UNRWA