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• ‘End slavery’s legacy of racism’: UN chief

• Greece: Rights experts condemn “racist violence” against asylum-seekers

• UNEP touts wastewater’s untapped potential for climate solutions

• Afghanistan’s Taliban responsible for revenge killings, torture of officials
• DRC: Millions face hunger as funding dries up: WFP
• Generative AI likely to augment rather than destroy jobs: ILO

• UN chief honours survivors of terrorism working for peace
• Hurricane Hilary update: UN weather agency on ‘widespread’ US floods
• Sudan: UN deplores intensified fighting, displacement in Kordofan states

The UN is standing by the people of Niger as border closures increasingly impact the movement of lifesaving supplies into the country which has been wracked by the fallout from last month’s military takeover.

• Niger: Türk calls for immediate restoration of constitutional order
• Cape Verde: UN support activated after deadly boat accident
• A scorching ‘new normal’ as world buckles under extreme heat: WMO

The parents of an American teenager killed in one of the nation’s worst school shootings are hoping the international community will do more to end gun violence.

Since the beginning of the brutal military showdown in Sudan, 18 aid workers have been killed, while the impact of the war on civilians has been exacerbated by the climate crisis, and major food insecurity.

• Aid worker casualties show no sign of abating in 2023: OCHA
• WHO summit aims to unlock power of traditional medicine through science: Tedros 
• Somalia: FAO works to protect vulnerable communities from potential flood of the century

• Africa can become new force in global supply chain: UNCTAD
• Libya: UN Mission calls for end to deadly Tripoli violence
• Haiti: dangerous makeshift sites spell more suffering for displaced: IOM

• Sudan: Humanitarians urge immediate action for peace and aid access 
• Afghanistan: on Taliban takeover anniversary Türk advocates for human rights 
• Jordan’s new cybercrime law unduly restricts freedom of expression: OHCHR