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The development follows months of hardship and distress for thousands of innocent seafarers and comes on the heels of the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States. The large-scale operation will be carried out in cooperation with Iran, Oman, other coastal States, the United States and the maritime industry. IMO had secured the … Read more

Resolution 2823 (2026) calls upon all relevant stakeholders to cooperate with the UN to facilitate the identification, investigation and prosecution of perpetrators without delay. The text was put forward by Denmark and Pakistan, two of the Council’s non-permanent members, and supported by more than 150 countries. Against impunity Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad of Pakistan introduced … Read more

The Breaking Barriers: Understanding Educational Exclusion in Crises report by Education Cannot Wait (ECW)the UN global fund for education in crises, paints one of the clearest pictures yet of the growing education emergency unfolding across some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. Among the children affected, 93 million are entirely out of school. Millions more … Read more

In a major keynote speech at London Climate Action Week, the UN chief highlighted how the world’s dependence on oil is driving both the climate crisis and an energy sovereignty crunch, the latter linked to massive shipping disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and the war involving Iran, Israel and the United States. “These crises … Read more

Speaking at a time of mounting humanitarian need and shrinking resources, the Pope warned that conflict continues to drive food insecurity around the world and stressed that food security must be treated as a matter of global security. “Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability,” he said. … Read more

At the High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDSheld every five years since 2001, speakers urged governments to recommit to ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 and adopt a new Political Declaration to guide the global response over the next five years. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed reflected on the extraordinary progress achieved through decades … Read more

The warning comes as most recent studies show that as generative AI has become part of everyday life for billions of people – from drafting emails to planning campaigns and creating presentations – inequalities are also being reinforced through discriminatory algorithms. In the United Kingdom alone, 88 percent of advertising and media agencies are already … Read more

Yet for the past 20 years, the UN Peacebuilding Fund (P.B.F.) has quietly been helping countries to avoid violence, recover from conflict and build more peaceful futures for their citizens. Today, it’s the UN’s main vehicle for investing in peace before crises spiral out of control. As the UN marks its first ever peacebuilding weekhere’s … Read more

Malaria wasn’t on Masaki Umeda’s mind when his drone startup, SORA Technology, launched in 2020 in Nagoya, Japan. Back then, he and his colleagues were focused on getting medical supplies to hard-to-reach parts of Africa but, after talking to health ministries, they realized their AI-powered solutions would be more useful in the fight against the … Read more

The initiative comes “at a time when securing the sustainability of news media is more urgent than ever to protect the future of journalism and safeguard information integrity,” the agency said. The text under consultation outlines disruptions to the media landscape, including decreased funding for public-interest journalism, the contraction or closure of local and community … Read more