Author: News Desk

The development follows an Israeli cabinet decision from May 2025 and applies to Area C of the West Bank, which encompasses some 60 per cent of the territory.  This will mark the first time since the 1967 occupation that Israel will begin registering land as state property following approval announced by the cabinet on Sunday.  […]

  Two years ago, the Digital Services Act (DSA) entered into force. The DSA protects your fundamental rights online by regulating online services such as social media platforms, marketplaces, app stores, and online travel and accommodation services. Its goal has been to ensure a safer digital space by addressing issues like addictive design, illegal content, […]

“More people are killed and injured each year. Millions have only a few hours of electricity per day. Hundreds of thousands are suffering without heating in freezing temperatures,” said Danielle Bell, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). In 2025, the total number of civilian casualties was 31 per cent higher […]

Since 1945, more than 80 former colonies comprising some 750 million people have gained independence. However, 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories remain on the UN list, home to nearly two million people. They range from Western Sahara in Africa to small island territories in the Caribbean and Pacific. A core subject for the UN Opening the 2026 […]

Some families have survived in those harsh conditions for months. Among them, 17-year-old Doha and her brothers and sisters reached Tawila after a three-day long journey from El Fasher by foot and donkey cart, exhausted and frightened. Home in the key Darfur city had become too dangerous. Food was scarce. Health facilities were destroyed. School, […]

Across the world, a significant gender gap persists at all levels of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines due to lack of research funding, gender stereotypes, and discriminatory workplace practices.  UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the gap is particularly pronounced in technology, where women represent just 26 per cent of the workforce in data and artificial intelligence, and 12 per cent in cloud computing.   “Excluding women […]

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at the regular news briefing in New York that the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, had received additional reports of airstrikes, bombing, shelling – including from at sea – and shootings in residential areas. The violence, he said, “puts civilians in danger and adds to the immense hardship they […]

While there is no official estimate of how prevalent fraud is in the $195 billion global fisheries and aquaculture sector, empirical studies suggest that 20 per cent of the trade may be subject to some type of fraud, according to FAO. Menu of misinformation Some studies suggest that up to 30 per cent of seafood […]

  Urgent action is needed to protect children online, particularly from cyberbullying and online harassment. One in six children aged 11 to 15 report that they have been victims of cyberbullying and about one in eight admit they have bullied others online. The Commission has therefore announced a plan against cyberbullying on 10 February, Safer Internet […]

In a key address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Annalena Baerbock repeated her call to uphold multilateralism amid “trying times” globally.  She noted that just 40 days into 2026, the world has already seen crises around Venezuela, Iran and Greenland, on top of continuing devastation in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere. International order ‘under attack’  “The international order is not only under pressure, it is under attack,” she told lawmakers.   “And […]