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• Myanmar: Military’s obstruction of humanitarian aid could be international crime

• Universal access to safer water, sanitation and hygiene could save 1.4 million lives: WHO

The cost-of-living crisis continues to affect the world’s poorest families, which is all the more reason to redouble efforts to push for grain and fertilizer to leave key Black Sea ports, top UN economist Rebeca Grynspan said on Tuesday.

In 2020 alone, over 30 million people were displaced from their homes due to weather-related events, mainly devastating droughts. But those who cross national borders to flee climate change-related disasters are not recognized as refugees under international law.

• Northeastern Nigeria: malnourished children fighting for their lives

• Top rights expert proposes legal status for millions displaced by climate change
• Limiting asylum access leads to rise in trafficking risks: rights expert

• Ukraine: Russian forces face new allegations of arbitrary detention, torture of civilians
• Sudan displacement higher than projected, humanitarian access thwarted
• Afghanistan: rise in suicide attacks against civilians since Taliban takeover

Close to 200 million people around the world are unemployed, and fears are rising that artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as Chat GPT will put even more people out of a job.

With security and humanitarian crises mounting across much of Africa, the international community is making a mistake by not engaging fully with South Sudan, which is at the centre of an increasingly volatile region.

• Stop stigmatizing drug users and focus on treatment, rehabilitation: Guterres
• Horn of Africa hunger emergency: 60 million food insecure
• Paths to regularization crucial so migrants can enjoy basic human rights