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Humanitarians launch $33 billion appeal for 2026
- UN News
The UN and partners are seeking $23 billion to provide lifesaving support next year to 87 million people worldwide affected by war, climate disasters, earthquakes, epidemics and crop failures.
One year after Assad’s fall, Syria’s future must be ‘free, sovereign and united’
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General has marked the first anniversary of the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, calling the moment “a day to honor [Syrians’] sacrifices and to renew the aspirations that fueled the historic change in the country.”
‘The system has failed’: Giles Duley’s mission to reframe disability in war
- UN News
Talking to journalists earlier this week on his final day as the first UN Global Advocate for Persons with Disabilities in Conflict and Peacebuilding Situations, Giles Duley said he felt he had failed in his core mission. More importantly, he added, the system itself has failed.
From ruins to rebuilding: Three Jamaican mothers face the future after hurricane
- UN News
Three women in Jamaica whose lives were upended by the destructive force of a hurricane which battered the Caribbean island are looking to rebuild their future
UNGA’s Long-Drawn Revitalization Efforts Need a Meaningful Outcome, not Another Repetitive Regularity of an Omnibus of Redundancy
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, December 5 (IPS) - From its inception, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has been engaged in improving its working methods, mindful of, as early as in 1949, “… the increasing length of General Assembly sessions, and of the growing tendency towards protracted debates”.
UN80 is Less a Reform Than a Survival Manual
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, December 5 (IPS) - Let’s just say the quiet part out loud: the UN is not reforming because it suddenly woke up one morning inspired by efficiency. It’s reforming because the Organization is broke. Not metaphorically broke. Not diplomatically broke. Actually broke. The kind of broke where arrears sit at $1.586 billion and everyone pretends that’s just an unfortunate bookkeeping hiccup instead of the fact that the lights are flickering.
In Zimbabwe, School Children Are Turning Waste Into Renewable Energy-Powered Lanterns
- Inter Press Service
SEKE, Zimbabwe, December 5 (IPS) - When going home after school, Monica Ben not only takes with her a pen and exercise books but also a lantern to light the dark room and completes her daily homework in Mashonaland East province.
Any Resumption of US Tests May Trigger Threats from Other Nuclear Powers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, December 5 (IPS) - President Trump’s recent announcement to resume nuclear testing rekindles nightmares of a bygone era where military personnel and civilians were exposed to devastating radioactive fallouts.
A fragile peace, a harsh winter: Gaza’s families struggle to rebuild
- UN News
Nearly two months after the latest ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on 10 October, a fragile calm has brought much-needed relief to families who have endured unimaginable suffering and repeated displacement.
Communities struggle to rebuild following Pakistan’s worst floods
- UN News
Extreme weather has battered Pakistan in recent months, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Lives have been lost, livelihoods destroyed, and millions displaced.
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