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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

Sep 18
4 min

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

Sep 17
4 min

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

Sep 16
6 min

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

Sep 15
5 min

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

Sep 14
4 min

UN News Today 01 November 2024

Gaza: polio vaccination campaign to resume in shattered north UNRWALebanon war sees 50,000 displaced in a matter of days UNOCHAMpox update from WHO for DR Congo and regio

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 04 November 2024

First famine, now cholera and dengue fever surge hits war-torn SudanGaza: polio vaccination successes achieved despite deadly weekend airstrikesWest Bank: mobile health c

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 05 November 2024

Gaza’s polio vaccination campaign in north nears targetMore than two billion people in cities face 0.5C rise warns UN HabitatWHO publishes first list of ‘top pathogens’ r

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 06 November 2024

The war in Lebanon has reached a ‘critical point’ with more than 3,000 confirmed dead: OCHAIn Gaza, specialist newborn care has been decimated, warns UNICEFRise in Afghan

Sep 13
3 min

UN News Today 07 November 2024

Ukraine nuclear security situation ‘highly challenging’ warns UN atomic watchdog chiefMyanmar’s Rakhine state is ‘a famine in the making’: UNDPCountries pledge to tackle

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 08 November 2024

Sudan’s displaced have endured ‘unimaginable suffering, brutal atrocities’: UNHCRUN’s rights chief Volker Türk demands justice for violations in Gaza and IsraelClimate cr

Sep 13
5 min

News in Brief 11 November 2024

COP29: UN envoy calls for countries to agree on new climate financing dealLebanon’s food insecurity ‘set to worsen’ amid ongoing conflict: WFPSouth Sudan election delay o

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 12 November 2024

Dead bodies lie in northern Gaza’s streets and people beg for bread: UNRWACOP29 update: Time is not on our side to save planet from climate crisis, says UN chiefUkraine b

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 13 November 2024

#COP29 renewable energy transition must not be a ‘stampede of greed’, warns UN chiefLebanon’s displaced are exhausted and face constant danger: UNHCRGaza: Markets are ‘in

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 14 November 2024

COP29 news: UN’s Guterres appeals for ‘robust’ net zero plansTorture is never justified, says UN human rights chiefIn Gaza: aid is still blocked from reaching desperate c

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 15 November 2024

1,000 days into Ukraine war, winter poses critical challenge for millionsIn Gaza: aid deliveries have reached a ‘low point’, displacement soaring: OCHAAt COP29 climate ta

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 18 November 2024

At least 16 children killed or injured in Ukraine every week: UNICEFGaza: Condemnation for deadly strike on apartment blockLebanon crisis: Culture experts meet in call fo

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 19 November 2024

Lebanon war: ‘Renewed intensity’ of exchanges of fire across Blue Line, warns UNIFILGaza: UN health agency alert for stricken hospital in besieged northHong Kong sentenci

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 20 November 2024

In the 2050s, eight times as many children globally will be exposed to heatwaves – UNICEFSudan: Rape and criminality stalk communities uprooted by warGaza: US delegation

Sep 13
4 min

UN News Today 21 November 2024

Acute hunger stalks one in four people in DR Congo, warn UN humanitariansCOP29 countdown: Failure on climate finance ‘not an option’, says GuterresMiddle East update: ICC

Sep 13
4 min