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People search for water in Khan Younis city in the southern the Gaza Strip. (file)

Going back into ‘hell’: An aid worker’s journey through shattered Gaza

Over and above the difficulty of actually getting into Gaza, aid teams now face the crushing realization that with a shortage of fuel and dwindling supplies, there is a limit to what they can do to help all those in need, UN aid worker Louise Wateridge told UN News on Friday.

Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, briefs the Security Council meeting on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Top UN official calls for strict compliance with sanctions on DPR Korea

People flee the neighbourhood of Solino in Port-au-Prince following gang attacks there in May 2024.

Haitian capital’s crippled health system ‘on the brink’

Women attend a community meeting in Cameroon.

UN rights chief calls time on ‘economic violence’ against women and girls

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World getting a ‘failing grade’ on Global Goals report card

Security Council demands Houthis cease attacks in the Red Sea

Famine risk is real for 14 areas of Sudan amid ongoing fighting

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Globally, temperatures are reaching record levels.

‘Heatwaves will be more frequent because of human-made climate change’

Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, holds his last press conference as Emergency Relief Coordinator at UN Headquarters.

Relief chief pledges UN aid operation will continue across Gaza

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has been in prison for nearly five years, fighting a US extradition order.

Assange release ‘a very good outcome’: UN torture expert

An illustration shows the transition from the war on drugs to a more enlightened approach to the treatment of drug problems.

First Person: Moving from fear to hope after war on drugs in the Philippines

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Angelique attended the UNODC-supported Strong Families programme with her mother.

Feeling ‘90 per cent stronger’: Families in the Philippines help prevent drug abuse

Law and Crime Prevention A mother in the Philippines has explained how she feels “90 per cent stronger” after participating in a UN-supported programme which aims to build parenting skills and help children communicate more openly about difficult issues such as drugs.

The availability of solar energy has enabled farmers in north Sudan to continue farming

INTERVIEW: Sustainable energy offers ‘hope’ in fight against desertification and land loss

Nick Herd is a Canadian activist, actor and talk show host.

First Person: Guest editing UN News’s first live blog takeover

A teacher in India leads an awareness class about menstrual and general hygiene to her students. (file)

Explainer: What’s a dignity kit?

Workers construct barriers to combat sea erosion along the coastline of Tuvalu.

More climate funding needed to ‘transition from rhetoric to decisive action’

Photo Stories

Many Gazans who fled to Rafah are now on the move again.

Searching for safety in Gaza

Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are fleeing from escalating violence in the north and south in the seven-month-long war that has killed nearly 36,000 Palestinians, leaving behind a looming famine and trails of rubble in the besieged enclave.

PHOTO STORY: 6 months of Gaza conflict leaves many close to famine

On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Ukraine: War and restoring a sense of home

A single mother of three children is rebuilding her home with help from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

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Hiroshima, shortly after a nuclear bomb was dropped on this Japanese city in August 1945. (file)

Stories from the UN Archive: How the UN was founded amid the ashes of war

UN Affairs Take a front seat to how it all began: the birth of the United Nations amid the ashes of the Second World War that devastated continents and communities around the world.

The United Nations in Vienna and Calle Libre join forces to create a mural at the Vienna International Centre.

‘Fragility of peace’ depicted in giant new mural on UN tower in Vienna

Culture and Education In a landmark art project for the Austrian capital Vienna, the UN building there has become a giant canvas representing the challenges of forging peace in a world that is still all too prone to conflict.

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