Across Papua New Guinea, water sources are drying up, crops are failing and food prices are rising months before the worst agricultural impacts are expected. Behind those warning signs is an El Niño whose Pacific Ocean temperatures have already surpassed the equivalent measurements during the historic 1997 and 2015 events – part of an unfolding climate pattern being dubbed a «Super El Niño» by some climate watchers.

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The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of Kazakhstan, with Committee Experts welcoming commendable efforts by the State, while asking about women’s access to justice and legal aid. Elgun Safarov, Committee…

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Djibouti is facing «overlapping emergencies» as refugees fleeing the conflict in Yemen arrive on its shores while migrants continue to travel in the opposite direction, the UN migration agency (IOM) warned on Tuesday.

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The death of a lab worker in Russia’s Siberia region has sparked concerns over a possible plague case, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, adding that it was following the situation closely.

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The UN Secretary-General appealed on Tuesday for an end to the United States-Iran war and the toll it has taken on global trade, as he began an official visit to Pakistan.

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Intense fighting in Yemen has forced more than 184,000 people from their homes since the start of August, most of them since early September, the UN migration agency (IOM) said on Monday.

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The world is running out of time to put guardrails on artificial intelligence, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned Monday, as a «ruthless race» between companies and countries raises concerns about human safety and even humanity’s survival.

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Three years after Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups attacked Israel, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said nothing can justify the atrocities of 7 October – calling for an end to the suffering of Israelis and Palestinians alike.

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Antibiotics, malaria treatments, painkillers, opioids. More than 250 tonnes of medical products were seized over six years in Central Africa. Behind those numbers is an illicit market that thrives not simply despite the region’s fragile health systems, but in part because of them.

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The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is robbing children of their loved ones – with some succumbing to the deadly disease themselves, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday.

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Dastid Koreshi, the new Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Koreshi served as the Permanent Representative…

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The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its ninety-third session, hearing a statement from a representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and adopting its agenda for the session. During the session, the Committee will review the…

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The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was today briefed by representatives of civil society organizations on the situation of women’s rights in Kazakhstan, the Cook Islands, Kenya and the Republic of Moldova, the reports of which the Committee will review this week.…

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Should the world move away sharply from fossil fuels, or manage a slower, more careful retreat?

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Pregnancy and childbirth have become a «new fault line in the global climate crisis» as extreme heat worsens, the head of the UN climate action body (UNFCCC) warned on Monday, calling for maternal and newborn health to be built into countries’ climate plans.

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has made public four arrest warrants against senior Taliban figures, accusing them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan, which amounts to a crime against humanity.

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The World Food Programme (WFP) has strongly condemned a deadly airstrike on two clearly marked aid trucks in South Kordofan, Sudan, this past weekend.

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Representatives from governments, civil society and academia meeting in Muscat, Oman on Monday called for urgent action to address a global housing crisis affecting nearly 3.4 billion people.

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«Your mind follows the thread, one by one, row by row. You know? It’s like meditation. I don’t like machines.»

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Getting aid to people in the world’s most neglected emergencies takes more than money. It takes open roads, open borders and leaders willing to help it reach those in dire need.

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