Gloves are off in fight against online drug sales, says anti-narcotics body
Drug dealers aren’t afraid of using popular social media and e-commerce platforms to sell their narcotics which is why countries and internet giants should join forces to fight the disinformation they peddle, a UN-partnered International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) report said on Tuesday.
UNDP supports building homes and breaking stereotypes in Ukraine
Roughly two million homes have been damaged or destroyed in Ukraine, where the full-scale Russian invasion has entered a third year.
A recent UN-backed assessment estimated that overall reconstruction and recovery will cost $486 billion over the next decade.
UN agency for Palestinians is a lifeline in Gaza, says General Assembly President
Rights experts alarmed by reported violations against Palestinian women and girls
Climate change: Saving nature from rising temperatures and conflict around the world
Climate change has become such a major factor of global instability that even the UN Security Council has added it to its agenda.
At the UN Environment Assembly taking place in Nairobi this week, experts including Christophe Hodder, climate peace and security advisor to UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), have been meeting to discuss the complex link between climate change and conflicts.
We will never leave the people of Gaza, says UN’s top aid official
An all-out Israeli invasion of Rafah could force the closure of the aid lifeline from Rafah, “but we will never leave the people of Gaza”, UN emergency relief chief Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday.
His expression of solidarity with Gazans came amid deepening concerns among humanitarians and the international community about the fate of some 1.5 million civilians uprooted by more than four months of heavy Israeli bombardment in the enclave, sparked by Hamas-led attacks in Israel on 7 October.
World Radio Day interview: UN radio in South Sudan, a channel for peace
Radio Miraya has been broadcasting across South Sudan since 2006 and in that time its core message of peace hasn’t changed – and it must be a successful formula, since seven in 10 people in the country listen to it.
For World Radio Day, celebrated on 13 February every year, we caught up with Ben Dotsei Malor who’s just returned to UN Headquarters in New York from a posting to Juba, where Radio Miraya is based.
Here he is now, sharing his thoughts on his time there, with UN News’s Daniel Johnson.
UN and Egyptian Red Crescent join forces to bring aid to Gaza and Sudan
Sharing borders with Gaza, Israel, Libya and Sudan, Egypt has taken a lead role in providing lifesaving aid in the region. Since the outbreak of conflict in Sudan last April and the four-month-old war in Gaza, both the Government and the Egyptian Red Crescent Society have been key actors in helping to assist millions of civilians caught in the crossfire.
World’s migratory species in decline, UN report warns
Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline and the global extinction risk is increasing, a new UN report has revealed.
Some whale species, sea turtles and jaguars are among the animals at risk, according to the first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report, launched at the opening of a major UN wildlife conservation conference taking place this week in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.