At least 15 besieged Syrian civilians dead due to lack of medical care At least 15 civilians in urgent need of medical evacuation have died in the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta, the UN said on Wednesday. Humanitarian agencies called for Government forces besieging the suburb east of the capital Damascus, to allow around [...]

$4.4 billion appeal launched for over 5 million Syrian refugees A more than $4 billion appeal has been launched to support what one top UN official called on Tuesday "a lost generation" of Syrian refugees caught up in the ongoing conflict. Well over five million Syrians need help, according to the UN Refugee Agency's (UNHCR) [...]

International pledges to the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) stand at a "likely" record high, but due to "overwhelming" demand, some crises have seen their funding cut. That's according to Chief of CERF, Lisa Doughten, who said after last Friday's annual pledging conference for 2018 at UN Headquarters that a total of $383 million had [...]

Align financial investments with climate objectives: UN Secretary-General Finance will be the "decisive factor" between winning or losing the battle against climate change. That's the message UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered to world leaders at the One Planet Summit in Paris on Tuesday. The event was held on the second anniversary of the adoption of [...]

Scientific advances unforeseen in the 1975 international treaty outlawing biological weapons, have made it more important than ever that the global community remains committed to addressing the potential threat they pose. That's according to Dr Tom Inglesby from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who's been taking part in a meeting on disarmament [...]

Children exposed to dangerous "new risks" online: UNICEF Too little is being done to protect children from the "perils" of the digital world, according to a new flagship report published on Monday by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). The report, entitled The State of the World's Children 2017: Children in a digital world, presents UNICEF's [...]

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The international community needs to do much more to agree on practical solutions that will help the world's 22.5 million refugees, the UN said on Tuesday. In its push for a Global Compact on the issue, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is hosting a two-day Dialogue in Geneva. Challenges that need to be addressed include the detention [...]

  The UN Security Council has called for dialogue with major social media companies in order to limit terrorists' ability to recruit and operate online. To that end, last month saw the launch of the Tech Against Terrorism's Knowledge Sharing Platform, at UN Headquarters in New York, involving some major players in the field, including [...]

Bodies of Tanzanian peacekeepers killed in DRC arrive home on UN flight The bodies of the 14 Tanzanian peacekeepers killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Friday, have been returned home on a UN flight, according to Tanzania's Foreign Minister. Augustine Mahiga told UN News that the troops who were injured during [...]