UN - Top Stories

1. A race for rights: How sport is helping protect girls in Uganda

   On a red running track in eastern Uganda, coach Zuena Cheptoek is doing more than training runners. For many girls in the Sebei subregion, she is also a confidante, a mentor and first line of protection against female genital mutilation, child marriage and abuse.

2. Rising nuclear risks put global security pact to the test at UN Headquarters

   At a moment of mounting nuclear danger and deepening global mistrust, governments from nearly every country will convene at the United Nations next week to confront a central question: will the world’s main barrier against the spread of nuclear weapons still hold?

3. World News in Brief: Airliner safety warning, drought in Somalia, solar boosts farming in Ethiopia

   The head of the UN’s civil aviation agency, ICAO, has called for immediate global action to protect commercial flights from escalating military threats, including missiles, drones, and GPS signal jamming.

4. For every generation, vaccines work and they have saved over 150 million lives: WHO

   Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives, as ordinary people chose to protect themselves, their children and their communities from diseases like measles, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, and rotavirus. 

5. As Gaza misery continues, shortages in Iran begin to bite

   Desperate and dangerous conditions in Gaza continue to hamper recovery efforts for the wartorn enclave's people, the UN health agency said on Friday, while demining experts warned that they’ve “barely scratched the surface” in assessing the level of contamination of unexploded ordnance.