December 3, 2025 UNHCR GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned as intensifying attacks on villages and the rapid spillover of the conflict into previously safe districts force tens of thousands of people to flee across northern Mozambique, with close to 100,000 displaced in the past fortnight alone. As needs rise at unprecedented speed, the capacity of humanitarian and government actors is not keeping pace, and collective efforts remain insufficient to mee

December 3, 2025 UN News Service The President of the UN General Assembly called on Tuesday for greater action to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people and a two-State solution with Israel.        Annalena Baerbock was speaking at an Assembly plenary meeting where countries debated a resolution that affirms the UN’s responsibility for the question of Palestine. “For 78 years the Palestinian people have been denied their inalienable rights – in particular, their right to

November 12, 2025 Hanifa Girowal There is growing international recognition that impunity for grave human rights violations in Afghanistan cannot be tolerated. In September, I briefed the United Nations Security Council , carrying with me the voices of thousands of Afghan women whose hopes and futures have been extinguished in silence. What I told the Council remains true today: Afghanistan faces one of the most profound human rights, humanitarian, environmental, and politica

November 11, 2025 Philippe Lazzarini After two years of brutal warfare in Gaza, a fragile ceasefire – the first phase of US president Donald Trump’s 20-point plan – offers some respite to an exhausted population. For my Unrwa colleagues on the ground in Gaza, the constant fear of being killed by bombs and guns may have abated, but there is still much to worry about – access to shelter, food and clean water remains challenging, and winter is approaching fast. Palestinians rid

November 11, 2025 Patrick Wintour   A coalition of states is needed to stop the international legal order falling apart, a distinguished international academic has warned. Oona Hathaway, the president-elect of the American Society of International Law and a former Pentagon legal adviser, said the core of the postwar global order – the prohibition on taking land by force – was under unprecedented challenge in a “scary moment” for the world. Oona Hathaway, a Yale professor, sai

November 10, 2025 Olivier de Frouville  and Julian Fernandez Published on November 7, 2025 Over the course of the war in Gaza, the press often portrayed international lawyers as “divided” when it came to what was going on inside the Palestinian territory. In response to this misleading depiction, a group of academics specializing in international law and international criminal law decided to organize a letter this summer that would outline the legal analysis upon which the i

November 8, 2025 Isabelle Jones The United States joined with the likes of Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Israel in voting against the resolution on autonomous weapons.

November 7, 2025 UN News Service From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it has also devastated natural resources such as water systems, farmland and forests.         The impacts affect livelihoods, and fuel displacement as well as ongoing instability.  Moreover, they can linger even after the fighting has ended. © IOM/Raber Aziz Members of a family displaced by drought and conflict rest outside their tent.

November 7, 2025 Joëlle Gergis As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop  – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has been emitted since 1990. Incidentally, 1990 was the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the

November 6, 2025 Rachael Mellor Dr. Norbert Stute Building on the legacy of the first summit held in Copenhagen in 1995, the primary goal of the second World Summit for Social Development is to advance global social development and bolster much-needed momentum for the Sustainable Development Goals  set out in the 2030 Agenda. This high-stakes event will be held November 4-6, 2025 in Doha, Qatar , and Better World Info  has carried out thorough research on the event. With just

September 9, 2025 Jessica Corbett As global outrage  over Israel's attack targeting Hamas ceasefire negotiators in Qatar began to mount...

September 6, 2025 UNHCR  Rival forces in Sudan are deliberately targeting the devastated nation’s civilian population, committing...

September 6, 2025 Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Spending more on defence will be pointless unless western governments also tackle the...

September 3, 2025 Kirsten Stade While recent heat waves were causing thousands of deaths , the Trump administration was busy dismantling...

August 31, 2025 Rajan Solomon Middle East Monitor The United States is once again demonstrating that it is unfit to serve as host of the...

August 28, 2025 Brett Wilkins Every member nation of the United Nations Security Council except the United States on Wednesday affirmed...

August 28, 2025 By Devika Hovell Imagine that, overnight, the President of the United States orders sanctions against sitting Supreme...

August 22, 2025 Famine has been confirmed in Gaza  City for the first time, a UN-backed body responsible for monitoring food security...

August 20, 2025 This paper is submitted in response to the UNODA call for papers on ‘the impact of the global increase in military...

August 20, 2025 UN News Service The small trickle of aid entering Gaza is totally insufficient to alleviate starvation and displacement...