UN Women calls for a strong Gender Action Plan at COP30 to keep gender equality as a central pillar for climate action
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Media Advisory )UN Women is calling for the adoption of a transformative, well-funded, and accountable Gender Action Plan (GAP)
Briefing remarks on the situation of women and girls in Sudan
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Press briefing )From the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional DiUN call for the protection and prioritization of women and girls amid Sudan’s acute food insecurity.
Egypt becomes the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that Egypt has successfully eliminated trachoma as a public health problem.
At Chad’s fragile Sudan border, UN and partners redouble connectivity drive for refugees and hosts
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Press Release )Connectivity for Refugees initiative is making strides in bringing private and public partners together to facilitate digital inclusion for 20 million people.
How to end wars: Invest in the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Story )Twenty-five years since the world declared that peace requires gender equality, funds for peacebuilders are down and conflicts are on the rise.
UNHCR: Violence flares anew in northern Mozambique, forcing 22,000 to flee in a week.
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Briefing note )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned at the rapidly growing displacement in northern Mozambique as a conflict that is entering its eighth year appears to be intensifying again, forcing nearly 22,000 people to flee their homes in a single week
UNHCR calls for urgent international support to advance solutions for Sahel’s forcibly displaced.
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (News )About 4 million people are now displaced across Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and neighbouring countries.
WHO and the European Union launch collaboration to advance digitized health systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union (EU) announced today a new agreement to support the digital transformation of health systems and wider adoption of WHO’s Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN) in sub-Saharan Africa.
Republic of Congo reinforces measures to curb potential Ebola outbreak.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )The Republic of Congo has stepped up measures to rapidly detect and respond to potential Ebola outbreak as neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a new outbreak of the virus in Kasai Province in the central region of the country.
Gender equality remains a unifying force for the world – 2025 must be our turning point.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Speech )Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the High-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, UN headquarters, 22 September 2025.