Integrating family planning and maternity services reduces maternal mortality
3/11/2025: Overall global maternity mortality declined by 41% between 2000 and 2023. New research provides clear evidence that this decline in maternal deaths has been driven by improvements in both family planning and maternity care.
Source: World Health Organization
How US-UAE ties weaken Washington’s voice on Sudan
31/10/2025: Pressure applied by Washington on the United Arab Emirates to halt supplies to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan is seen as potential leverage to stop the fighting and atrocities. But the US is partnering with the UAE to secure its supply chain for critical minerals to use in semiconductors and defense technologies. And The New York Times has reported how the US relationship with the UAE has expanded the Trump family’s private crypto and real estate businesses.
Source: PassBlue
As civil society is silenced, corruption and inequality rise
31/10/2025: A research partnership between over 20 organizations tracking civic freedoms finds that civil society is under attack in 116 of 198 countries and territories. When civil society attempts to expose corrupt relationships within authoritarian regimes, it becomes a target.
Source: Inter Press Service
Green Climate Fund hits record in project finance for 2025
31/10/2025: Total climate finance approvals for 2025 of $3.26 billion represent a record high for the Green Climate Fund, welcome news amid declining official development assistance and tightening global budgets. The Fund was established in 2010 to serve the Paris Agreement by increasing access to climate finance for developing countries.
Source: Devex
US strikes in Caribbean and Pacific breach international law, says UN rights chief
31/10/2025: US airstrikes against alleged drug trafficking boats has drawn sharp criticism from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Commissioner asserts that illicit drug trafficking is a law-enforcement matter, for which the use of lethal force is lawful only as a last resort.
Source: UN News
Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives every year
29/10/2025: The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveals that heat-related mortality has increased 23% since the 1990s, while droughts and heatwaves in 2023 are linked with an additional 124 million people facing moderate or severe food insecurity.
Source: World Health Organization
Shortfall in climate finance for adaptation threatens lives and economies
29/10/2025: Climate adaptation finance needs in developing countries are 12 times the current amount of international support, according to the latest Adaptation Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme. International public adaptation finance flows to developing countries were $26 billion in 2023: down from $28 billion the previous year.
Source: UN Environment Programme
Sudan’s real-time genocide draws comparison to Bosnia and Rwanda
29/10/2025: A group of human rights and humanitarian aid workers claim that satellite images reveal a scale of violence in Sudan unseen since the mass killings of civilians in Bosnia, Srebrenica, and an earlier wave of genocide a generation ago in Darfur. In the conflict betweeen the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces, both sides have committed atrocities but the RSF is accused of a more systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing against Darfur’s Black tribes.
Source: Devex
Global inequality exposed in carbon pollution of the richest
28/10/2025: New Oxfam research finds that a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year. If everyone emitted like the richest 0.1%, the global carbon budget would be used up in less than 3 weeks.
Source: Oxfam International
Guterres calls for urgent reform of the Security Council
24/10/2025: UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the “fragile” legitimacy of the Security Council could endanger global peace if it remains gridlocked. The body’s structure is viewed by many countries as unrepresentative and its veto system has often stalled action and sparked criticism.
Source: UN News