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6 March 2025

Women in Brazil highlight the importance of access to sport.

One in four countries report backlash against women's rights in 2024

The basic rights of women and girls are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections -and less funding for programmes and institutions which support and protect women.

Women

Children and their families in central Gaza receive winter clothes.

UN emergency aid fund releases $110 million for neglected humanitarian crises

Amid deep cuts to global humanitarian funding, the UN's Central Emergency Response Fund, CERF, on Thursday allocated $110 million to neglected crises across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Humanitarian Aid

A woman living with HIV receives medication at a hospital in Zimbabwe.

Choose compassion, reject cruelty to end HIV, says top UN rights official

Global efforts to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic continue to remain insufficient, with deadly consequences, the UN Human Rights Council heard on Thursday.

Human Rights

Yemen: 'Fear of a return to full conflict is palpable', says UN envoy

After several years of fragile truce, there is a "palpable" fear of a return to all-out war in Yemen, said Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen Hans Grundberg on Thursday, briefing the Security Council.

Peace and Security

A mother and her two daughters walk past damaged buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

UN Assembly President calls for just and lasting peace in Ukraine

The President of the General Assembly on Thursday renewed his call for a just, lasting and comprehensive peace between Ukraine and Russia, in line with the UN Charter and the principles of sovereign equality and territorial integrity.

Peace and Security

WMO says the La Niña event is expected to be short-lived.

Climate change: La Niña fades, as global heat keeps rising

The weak but significant La Niña weather event that began in December is likely to be brief, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced.

Climate and Environment

Displaced families flee North Darfur's El Fasher town in search of safety. Across Sudan, more than 12 million people have been driven from their homes by the war between rival militaries that erupted in April 2023.

Sudan: Access to stricken Zamzam camp 'is nearly impossible'

Civilians sheltering in the vast Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan's North Darfur region are now "nearly impossible" to reach, the UN's top aid official in the country warned on Thursday.

Peace and Security