News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 3
‘The water comes up to our knees’: Climate hazards shut millions of children out of school in 2025
- UN News
When the creek beside Taudibura Garo's school in Papua New Guinea floods, the water doesn't stop at the gate. It rises through the pit toilets – making the school unsafe – sending the 16-year-old and her classmates home without being able to finish.
Flood-ravaged Nepal calls for climate justice
- UN News
Nepal’s call for financial compensation following recent deadly floods underlines the need to help countries that contribute the least to climate change – but are increasingly grappling with its most lethal consequences, the top UN official in the country said on Wednesday.
Plight of Afghans going ‘from bad to worse’, but the world is looking away: Türk
- UN News
Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, the plight of Afghans has only deteriorated, with millions impoverished while authorities violate basic human rights daily.
UN hails Libya election deal as Security Council urges Libyans to seize the moment
- UN News
The UN Security Council has welcomed a breakthrough agreement between Libya's rival political blocs, calling it ‘an important step’ towards the country's first national elections in over a decade – while pressing all sides to move quickly from paper to practice.
Guterres urges leaders to invest in peace as conflicts deepen
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General appealed on Wednesday for world leaders to invest in peace as violence, division and conflict exacerbate suffering worldwide.
Record number of attacks on education, global fund warns
- UN News
While September traditionally marks the start of the school year across the northern hemisphere, a staggering 93 million children are not in class at all amid an unprecedented number of attacks on learning, education experts warned on Wednesday.
FAO and the Global South: Advancing Agrifood Transformation through South-South and Triangular Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
ROME, September 8 (IPS) - The world’s agrifood systems are under mounting pressure from economic uncertainty, climate change and persistent inequalities. Farmers, rural communities and the most vulnerable are bearing the heaviest burden. We must act faster and scale practical, proven solutions.
What 1.5°C Overshoot Means for Small Islands
- Inter Press Service
CASTRIES, Saint Lucia, September 8 (IPS) - The world is now expected to breach the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limit that small island states have spent years defending as a threshold for survival.
Trump’s “Comprehensive” Gaza Peace Plan a Cover for Genocide
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, September 8 (IPS) - It is nearly a year since the UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2803 on 17 November, 2025, endorsing President Trump’s 20-point framework ostensibly designed to end the war in Gaza and create a roadmap for long-term stability. It is not clear what progress has been made. In August 2026 The Jerusalem Post reported “the IDF continues almost daily strikes in Gaza”, killing more than 1,200 Palestinians since the US-brokered ceasefire deal came into effect, seizing more territory, and continuing to restrict the movement of people and goods into and out of Gaza. Nickolay Mladenov, the UN High Representative on the Board of Peace, wrote in early August 2026 that “two days of strikes across Gaza have killed civilians and destroyed medical supplies that people depend on”. Ironically, this genocidal strike happened only a few days after a US-brokered Hamas disarmament deal, which Trump called, “a monumental step” towards peace and security.
Ships and seafarers increasingly caught in the crossfire of unrelated wars
- UN News
The global shipping industry is facing a "genuinely unprecedented" convergence of maritime crises, with vessels and seafarers increasingly used as “leverage” in conflicts that have nothing to do with them.
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