UN report charts path out of debt crisis threatening global development
27/6/2025: More than 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health or education. The UN's Expert Group on Debt has presented 11 options for discussion at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development.
Source: UN News
Guterres calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire
27/6/2025: The UN Secretary-General has reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, warning that the humanitarian crisis has reached “horrific proportions.” He also said that "the only sustainable path to re-establishing hope is by paving the way to the two-State solution."
Source: UN News
Twenty years of the UN’s Responsibility to Protect
26/6/2025: UN member states have reiterated their commitment to the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, known as the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, established 20 years ago. Implementation has been marked by inconsistency and hypocrisy of states, notably those holding a veto.
Source: Inter Press Service
Disappointing outcome to Bonn climate negotiations
26/6/2025: On the conclusion of the 2025 UN Bonn climate meetings, Oxfam has expressed concern at rich countries’ continued refusal to accept responsibility for climate costs in the Global South.
Source: Oxfam International
Countries must act fast to save the Sustainable Development Goals
25/6/2025: The 4th International Conference for Financing for Development will take place from 30 June to 3 July in Seville, Spain. It provides a unique opportunity to address financing challenges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Years of underinvestment by all states mean the majority of the SDGs are way off track from their 2030 target.
Source: Amnesty International
Price of first malaria vaccine to be slashed by more than half
25/6/2025: The price charged by drugmakers Bharat Biotech and GSK for the world’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S, will be reduced to less than $5 per dose in endemic countries by 2028. In low income countries supported by GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, prices will be cut even further.
Source: Devex
FEWS NET is back online
25/6/2025: The Famine Early Warning Systems Network is officially back, having been halted as the Trump administration slashed nearly all US foreign aid. Widely regarded as the world’s most reliable early warning system for food insecurity, FEWS NET is expected to shift fully to the US State Department in the coming weeks.
Source: Devex
Oxfam warns global development is “abysmally off track”
25/6/2025: A new Oxfam report contrasts the growing wealth of the world's richest 1% with the largest cuts to foreign aid since records began. Oxfam calls on governments to band together in new coalitions to oppose extreme inequality
Source: Oxfam International
Decades of progress on poverty at risk, warns UN poverty expert
25/6/2025: The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has warned that unprecedented cuts to global aid and intensifying attacks on multilateralism are undermining decades of progress. Official development assistance fell in 2024 for the first time in six years, with predictions estimating a drop of almost 20% for 2025.
Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN Refugee Agency estimates 2.5 million people need resettlement
24/6/2025: For 2026, the international community has set itself a goal to resettle 120,000 refugees, a small fraction of the 2.5 million refugees worldwide that need to be resettled. The largest groups are Afghans and Syrians.
Source: UN Refugee Agency