Nairobi, 2 September 2026 – Global temperature rise is set to cross 1.5°C, likely within the next few years, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, but it is still ...

Today, 1 September, Dr Silviu Domente arrived in Kyiv to begin his work as the new WHO representative in Ukraine. He succeeds Dr Jarno Habicht, who led WHO in Ukraine for 8 years. We are pleased to ...

This thirty-eighth report by OHCHR on the human rights situation in Ukraine covers the period from 1 December 2023 to 29 February 2024.

India is critical in determining the success of the SDGs, globally. At the UN Sustainable Development Summit in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted, “Sustainable development of one-sixth of ...

At least 437 civilians were killed and 2,610 injured in Ukraine in July 2026.

Kyiv, 13 August 2026 – More civilians were killed or injured in July 2026 than in any month since March 2022, marking a new high in this year’s escalation of civilian harm, the UN Human Rights ...

Monica Juma, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) and Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), visited Ukraine as the representative of the ...

Kyiv, 22 August 2026 – A Russian attack on a crowded shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, on 21 August appears to constitute a breach of international humanitarian law, the UN Human ...

HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR UKRAINE, MATTHIAS SCHMALE, CONDEMNS THE DEADLY IMPACT ON CIVILIANS OF AN ATTACK BY THE ARMED FORCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON A BUSY SHOPPING MALL ON FRIDAY As Kyiv ...

The impact of the war continues to expand Four and a half years after the Russian Federation launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the civilian toll continues to rise, Under-Secretary-General ...

In a joint appeal today, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, renew their call for ...

Let me start with a very personal reflection. I was born in Botswana, in Southern Africa, before it gained its independence. At the time the country was in a period of transition from being colonized ...