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Week in Review 11 October 2025

Catch up on this week's must-read stories as UN Headquarters hosted world leaders for UNGA80 The beginning of the end of over two years of brutal war between Israeli forces and Hamas militants seems finally to have arrived, thanks to the efforts of international brokers led by US President Trump. We covered the momentous events of Thursday live, and kept following every development in the humanitarian crisis, as we have done since the Hamas terror attacks of October 2023, and the devastating Israeli offensive that followed. As a fragile peace in and around Gaza took hold, we continued to report on the horrors in Haiti – where the US has also galvanised action through the Security Council-endorsed new force to tackle armed gangs there – Sudan, where besieged El Fasher continues to hold out, and Ukraine. The UN celebrated the Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Machado of Venezuela, a Nigerian woman prison officer whose motto is 'peace begins behind bars', the 'cosmic girls' who want to conquer Outer Space – and the millions of girls represented by their peers at UN Headquarters on Friday, who are bold, diverse and unstoppable. Read on, and have a great weekend. We'll be back next Saturday.  Stay informed – follow UN News online, on our app, and on social media for the latest updates in New York, Geneva, Nairobi and around the world.

Gaza: Aid teams repeat calls for unhindered access to stricken enclave As displaced Gazans jammed the main route leading north on Friday after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas reportedly came into effect, UN aid teams repeated their call to open all crossings into the devastated enclave to prevent famine spreading. Read more Peace and Security Peace begins behind bars: A corrections officer's fight for dignity inside Congo's prisons The offer sounded almost unreal. The UN was fishing around for someone with a knack for building prisons – preferably a woman – to join its mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Would she go? Read more Peace and Security Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado's values represent best hopes of Venezuelans: UN rights office The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday welcomed the Nobel Peace Prize committee's decision to name opposition leader Maria Machado as this year's laureate, in recognition of her work promoting the Venezuelan people's democratic hopes. Read more Human Rights Sudan: Türk 'appalled' by continued killing of civilians in El Fasher UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday condemned in the strongest terms the continued killing and injuring of civilians in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher. Read more Human Rights Bold, diverse and unstoppable: Girls speak out amid a world in crisis Adults were in the back seat at UN Headquarters on Friday as girls and young women from across the world took over the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber to speak up for their rights in the face of conflict, climate change, and other challenges.   Read more Women 'Never be afraid to ask for help': Ukrainians scarred by war find space to heal People in Ukraine who have suffered mental stress as a result of the war which continues in their country have found a space to heal in neighbouring Moldova. Read more Health Middle East LIVE: Israel-Hamas deal paves way for ceasefire, hostage release As people celebrated across Gaza and Israel at the news of an agreement that could hasten the end of the two-year war, UN aid teams on Thursday insisted that they were ready to deliver humanitarian relief supplies into the shattered enclave at scale. We'll be covering all news developments across the UN system throughout the day. UN News app users can follow live coverage here. Read more Peace and Security UN decries deadly Myanmar airstrike, amid mounting military attacks on civilians The United Nations has condemned a Myanmar airstrike that killed dozens of civilians, including children, calling it part of a "disturbing pattern" of indiscriminate attacks by the country's military. Read more Peace and Security Haiti: 'Unprecedented' number of children on the run The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has almost doubled in the past year, with 680,000 now uprooted from their homes, a new UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Child Alert report found. Read more Peace and Security Ministers from Europe and beyond commit to address housing emergency Across Europe and beyond, housing costs are rising faster than incomes and many families are spending up to half their salary just to have a place to call home. Read more SDGs Europe's health system under strain as doctors and nurses face mental health crisis One in 10 doctors and nurses in Europe experience suicidal thoughts, a new survey carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe has revealed. Read more Health Syria's search for truth is a 'collective effort', top UN investigator says Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years under the Assad dictatorship, including during 14 years of civil war which began in 2011. Read more Peace and Security India's Durga Puja, where worship meets social change India's eastern state of Bengal transformed this week into the world's largest public art festival - an immersive blend of worship, artistic expression, and social messaging, thanks to an annual Hindu festival known as Durga Puja. Read more Culture and Education

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