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Suriname is the most forested country in the world, but its pristine rainforests are being threatened, among others, by mining for gold, bauxite and kaolin.

COP28: Extraction of minerals needed for green energy must be ‘sustainable and just’, says Guterres

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday announced his plan to set up a panel aimed to ensure the move from fossil fuels towards renewable energy is just, sustainable and benefits all countries.

Children displaced by the conflict in Sudan (file).

World News in Brief: Engagement with Sudan, Red Sea vessel attacks, SDGs disabilities promise

Security Council members vote on the resolution to close the UN political mission in Sudan.

Security Council agrees to terminate UN mission in Sudan

A man takes his children across bombed land in the Gaza Strip during the temporary humanitarian pause. (file)

Shock and terror in Gaza as bombardment of shattered enclave resumes

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A boy waiting for his school bus in the Songinokhairkhan district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where air pollution levels are dangerously high.

Tackling health impacts of climate change and scaling up digital climate action in the spotlight at COP28

2 December 2023

Attendees at the Indonesia Pavilion during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

COP28: As ‘humanity’s fate hangs in the balance’, UN chief calls for urgent action to prevent planetary crash

1 December 2023

View of the iconic Al Wasl Dome at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which is hosting the UN climate conference COP28.

COP28 talks open in Dubai with breakthrough deal on loss and damage fund

30 November 2023

A man crosses parched farmland in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia

Science points to ‘climate collapse’ as UN chief calls COP28 to action

30 November 2023

UN Secretary-General António Guterres looks across the ice sheet at Frei Antarctica base.

In visit to Antarctica, Guterres appeals for action to end ‘climate anarchy’

24 November 2023

Climate change is contributing to drought conditions across the world.

Explainer: What’s COP28 and why is it important?

28 November 2023

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Unprecedented drought emergency demands urgent action

World News in Brief: Gaza aid, support for Afghan returnees, end modern slavery

Global agrifood systems are the climate solution, new FAO report highlights

World AIDS Day celebrates communities working to end the disease

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James Elder, Chief of Communications at United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Gaza: ‘Somehow their nightmare has just got that much worse’

A girl rests in a camp for displaced persons in Gaza.

First Person: Trauma, stress and sadness take root in Gaza

Ms. Achrekar, spoke with UN News as UNAIDS launched its latest report on Tuesday, Let Communities Lead.

Every single minute ‘a life is lost to AIDS,’ says UNAIDS deputy chief

Refugee activist and journalist Abdullahi Mire (left), the Global Laureate of the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, distributes books to refugee students at a secondary school in Dadaab, Kenya.

‘Milestone’ award will change refugee children’s lives: UNHCR prize winner

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Village health worker Timothy Mbene Masereka.

Fighting gender-based violence door-to-door with support of Ugandan men

Women A Ugandan man, who is employed as a village health worker, has told the UN how men and boys must play a critical role in eliminating gender-based violence to change their communities for the better.

Missile strikes have caused widespread destruction in Gaza.

First Person: ‘Severe shock’ as Gaza neighbourhoods are erased

An invaluable mobile app helping Kenyan pastoralists beat the drought.

Explainer: How AI helps combat climate change

Angela Muhindo in Kasese, western Uganda.

Ugandan woman advocates for her rights after ‘life of pain’

(from left) Paul Goodloe, meteorologist, The Weather Channel; Jake Dubbins, co-founder, Conscious Advertising Network, member of Climate Action Against Disinformation; Vanessa Nakate, climate activist, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador; Charlotte Scaddan, Senio…

Tackling climate mis/disinformation: ‘An urgent frontier for action’

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A farmer works in a rice field in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. (1982)

Veteran UN photographer who was ‘witness to troubled world’ leaves behind a priceless legacy

The former head of UN Photo, John Isaac, who photographed the work of the United Nations during three tempestuous, but also hopeful, decades at the end of the 20th Century has died aged 80.

Rafah crossing, aid ‘lifeline’ into Gaza

UN Secretary-General António Guterres travelled to the Rafah crossing on Friday.

Ukraine: Snapshots of a war

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, which is a World Heritage Historic Centre has been damaged by shelling.

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Residents of Gaza move their possessions during the temporary humanitarian pause.

World News in Brief: New relief window in Gaza, sexual violence in Sudan, new action against chemical weapons

Humanitarian Aid A last-minute extension of the pause in fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on Thursday offered hope that UN humanitarians and aid partners will be able to pursue their efforts to reach the enclave’s most vulnerable people.

File photo from May 2023 when Beledweyne town was flooded after the Shabelle River burst its banks.

Needs rise as flooding spreads in Somalia

Climate and Environment Deadly torrential rains and floods have affected more than two million people in several areas of Somalia, with over 100 killed and 750,000 displaced from their homes, the authorities and humanitarian partners said on Thursday in the capital, Mogadishu.

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