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Could your brain data be used against you? UN calls for limits on neurotechnology

Presenting the Secretary-General’s report to the General Assembly on Thursday, senior human rights official Claudia Fuentes Julio said the technology could threaten privacy, freedom of thought and the right to a fair trial, particularly for marginalised people.Neurotechnology was once...

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Guterres urges faster action and financing to stop biodiversity loss

Guterres was speaking in Yerevan, Armenia, ahead of the opening of the COP17 UN biodiversity conference next week. “The food we eat, the water...

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Security Council LIVE: Yemen has fallen back into full-scale war, warns UN envoy

Cross-border missile and drone strikes on Saudi airports and energy infrastructure have continued this week, while Government forces say they have recaptured the port city of MochaFighting between Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-backed Government forces is intensifying around Taiz, and...

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Amid heartache of Nepal flooding disaster, fear remains

At least 1,400 people were killed, including 84 children, and nearly 5,300 people are still missing, after a mountain of glacial ice and rock collapsed into the Bhotekoshi, Upper Trishuli and Narayani-Gandak rivers in late August, unleashing a massive torrent that washed away bridges and hom...

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Sustaining livelihoods amid crisis in Gaza

Following the devastation of the past three years, productive capacity in Gaza has been severely damaged, markets disrupted and the cost of basic goods has risen sharply.Their experiences reflect different parts of the same challenge: sustaining livelihoods that still exist, helping b...

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Djibouti shipwreck: Death toll rises to 139 as 84 remain missing

The toll rose from 109 after the bodies of 30 more people were recovered. Search and rescue efforts are continuing.The boat was carrying 305 people from Djibouti towards Yemen when it went down near Guehere, north of Obock, in the early hours of Friday. About 82 people survived.

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Yemen: Houthi siege, cholera outbreak and aid cuts put civilians in the crosshairs

Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city, has been a major battleground between the Iran-backed Houthis and the internationally recognised Saudi-backed Yemeni government since the start of the war in 2014. The Houthis have besieged the city since 2015 but tightened their blockade at the start...

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Yemen: WFP warns of potential ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as fighting blocks aid delivery

“We are critically concerned about the escalating conflict, but even more so about the growing number of people we can no longer reach because of it,”

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Gaza: 340 children killed despite ceasefire agreement - UNICEF

For families “mourning the loss of their children, those terrible statistics do not equate with a ceasefire”, stressed spokesperson Ricardo Pires.He added that in the last two weeks in Gaza alone, five boys and two girls have been reported killed and at least 33 children seriously inj...

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Testing and monitoring underway in suspected Russia plague death

“A woman who worked at the laboratory in Irkutsk oblast has died, and the authorities are looking into whether pneumonic plague caused her death,” WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told reporters in Geneva.  

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