Global IssuesNews headlines
Tensions escalating over DPR Korea, political affairs chief warns Security Council
- UN News
The UN’s top political affairs official on Wednesday expressed grave concern over rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, urging the Security Council to uphold the objective of preventing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) – more commonly known as North Korea – from becoming a nuclear armed State.
UN responds to cyclone in Mozambique, earthquake in Vanuatu
- UN News
Humanitarians continue to assess the impact of Tropical Cyclone Chido in Mozambique and to support affected families, the UN reported on Wednesday.
‘We must not normalise the war in Ukraine,’ warns country coordinator
- UN News
On Wednesday UN Resident Coordinator in Ukraine Matthias Schmale briefed the press after visiting the war-ravaged eastern Donetsk region, sharing harrowing accounts of human resilience amid the chaos of Russia’s ongoing invasion.
Occupied Palestinian Territory: Security Council hears of ongoing violence, ‘relentless’ Israeli settlement expansion
- UN News
The United Nations continues to voice major concern over hostilities and Israeli settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the Security Council heard on Wednesday.
Syria: UN envoy concludes talks in Damascus, citing hope for democratic future
- UN News
The UN Special Envoy for Syria concluded talks in Damascus on Wednesday, expressing optimism that the fall of the Assad regime could mark the start of a peaceful and democratic transition for the shattered country, while acknowledging challenges remain.
World News in Brief: Migrants Day, hunger in the Arab world, arbitrary arrests in South Sudan
- UN News
Migration patterns continue to be shaped by conflicts, climate disasters, and economic pressures, with 2024 marking record levels of internal displacement, the UN reported on Wednesday, marking International Migrants Day.
Winter rains and aid obstacles worsen ordeal for one million Gazans
- UN News
Nearly one million Gazans risk spending winter without adequate shelter as UN agencies struggle to provide cold weather assistance, amid ongoing Israeli bombardment, repeated evacuation orders and restrictions on aid deliveries, they warned on Wednesday.
My Father Was Arbitrarily Arrested and Convicted for Denouncing Government Corruption
- Inter Press Service
Dec 17 (IPS) - CIVICUS speaks with Ramón Zamora, son of Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, about restrictions on press freedom and the challenges of defending human rights in Guatemala.
A Most Heinous - Yet Unprosecuted - Crime: Inequality
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 17 (IPS) - Planet Earth is drying up, relentlessly. Over three-quarters of all lands have become permanently drier in the last three decades. This is not jut a statistic but a stark scientific fact. But while such an ‘existential crisis’ affects nearly every region, guess where -and who- are the most hit?
Interlinked Solutions Key to Tackling Biodiversity, Water, Food, Health and Climate Change, says IPBES
- Inter Press Service
WINDHOEK & BULAWAYO, Dec 17 (IPS) - Biological diversity is on the decline worldwide, and current approaches to address its loss have been piecemeal and ineffective in tackling the crisis facing nature—this is despite estimates that over half of global GDP (USD 58 trillion of economic activity in 2023) is generated in sectors that are moderately to highly dependent on nature, a new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) finds.
Powered by 
and 