This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General on Saturday strongly condemned Russia’s latest wave of drone and missile attacks in Ukraine – reportedly the largest in over three years of war – warning that the strikes again jeopardised nuclear safety at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). In a statement issued […]UN chief condemns Russian strikes on Ukraine, warns of nuclear safety risk
July 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General on Saturday strongly condemned Russia’s latest wave of drone and missile attacks in Ukraine – reportedly the largest in over three years of war – warning that the strikes again jeopardised nuclear safety at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). In a statement issued […]UN chief ‘appalled’ by worsening Gaza crisis as civilians face displacement, aid blockades
July 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General is “appalled” by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as civilians face yet another wave of mass displacement with few safe places to go. Multiple attacks in recent days have killed and injured scores of Palestinians at sites hosting displaced people and others attempting […]The EIB reinforces global partnerships to boost food security and promote rural development, fight hunger and poverty
July 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced new partnerships and commitments to promote food security and sustainable agriculture around the world and to combat hunger and poverty and. These steps were taken during the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, Spain. The EIB […]Gaza: Access to key water facility in Khan Younis disrupted, UN reports
July 3, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. A key water reservoir serving Khan Younis in southern Gaza has become inaccessible following new Israeli displacement orders, sparking fears of a collapse in the city’s water distribution network and worsening already dire humanitarian conditions, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. According to the UN Office for […]Health disparities and inequalities: A huge burden to Africa
July 2, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Mr. Venuste Ishimwe is currently a 1st-year medical student at University of Rwanda College of Medicine and Health Sciences in Rwanda. He is affiliated with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to the […]Gaza: Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn
July 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services. “As humanitarian assistance and basic services dwindle, people in Gaza have been increasingly deprived of […]Gaza: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Strip
July 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair. “Amid ongoing Israeli military operations, scores of people have reportedly been killed and injured, including while waiting for food,” the UN Office for the […]Gaza: Health system crumbles amid growing desperation over food, fuel
June 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclave’s people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. “Definitely, people […]‘Our kids cry for food’: Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day
June 27, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners. The meals which families are able to […]‘Fuel for Gaza is a matter of life and death,’ UN warns
June 26, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday. “Israeli authorities continue to restrict the delivery of fuel into and throughout the Gaza Strip, effectively choking off life-saving services […]UN urges renewed diplomacy on Iran nuclear deal, hails Tehran-Tel Aviv ceasefire as ‘significant achievement’
June 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. A fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States between Iran and Israel appears to be holding, marking a tentative halt to a dangerous regional escalation that included airstrikes, retaliatory missile attacks and mounting civilian casualties. Amid this relative calm, the United Nations has renewed its call for […]Iran-Israel crisis: IAEA chief calls for access to damaged nuclear sites
June 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. After surprise US bombing raids on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities over the weekend, the head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog on Monday appealed for immediate access to the targeted sites to assess the damage that is likely “very significant”. Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy […]US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites ‘marks perilous turn’: Diplomacy must prevail, says Guterres
June 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday that massive overnight strikes by the United States on Iran’s nuclear facilities only increase the risk of a wider war and “serious damage to the international order.” After ten days of airstrikes […]UN warns of mounting humanitarian toll as Israel-Iran hostilities continue
June 20, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. As deadly missile exchanges between Israel and Iran enter a second week, the United Nations is sounding alarm over the growing toll on civilians, warning of mass displacement and regional instability. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday called for “maximum restraint” and reiterated […]In the Shadow of Conflict: Building Health and Hope Among Sudan’s Displaced
June 19, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Mr. Ibrahim Ibrahim Kharif is a passionate medical student, youth leader and health advocate from Sudan. He is affiliated with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to the writer and do not necessarily […]Guterres renews call for Israel-Iran ceasefire
June 19, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday he remains “profoundly alarmed” by the ongoing military escalation between Israel and Iran, as the sides continued to trade airstrikes. “I reiterate my call for immediate de-escalation leading to a ceasefire,” Mr. Guterres said in a statement in which he […]King Abdullah II of Jordan: “A shameful version of humanity is unfolding in Gaza”
June 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. On Tuesday, the King of Jordan, His Majesty Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, addressed MEPs during a formal sitting in Strasbourg. Welcoming King Abdullah II of Jordan to the hemicycle, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said: “Jordan is not only a great friend to this […]Israeli actions in Palestinian territories constitute war crimes, Human Rights Council hears
June 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The ongoing crises in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Sudan are in the spotlight this week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva. “The goal of the Israeli government is abundantly clear: the destruction of life in Gaza.” That’s how Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission […]Without urgent funding, global hunger hotspots are set to grow, UN warns
June 17, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people have fled to neighbouring South Sudan, seeking refuge from escalating violence that has displaced 12.4 million people and plunged over half the Sudanese population into food insecurity. But hunger has followed them. Over 57 per cent of […]Security Council meets in emergency session over Iran-Israel conflict, amid strikes and counterstrikes
June 16, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Israel’s strikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities mark a dangerous new escalation in the Middle East, a top UN official told the Security Council during an emergency session convened on Friday. The Council cleared its original schedule to address the rapidly evolving crisis, also hearing from […]GAZA LIVE: UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts resolution demanding immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire
June 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. That’s a wrap That’s it for our live coverage of the General Assembly’s emergency session on protection of civilians in Gaza, although the debate is set to continue. Prior to the vote, President Philémon Yang remarked that once again the Assembly was called upon to take the […]Rising hunger in Gaza highlights urgent need for ‘unfettered’ aid supplies
June 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the “very limited” volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday. Only around 6,000 tonnes of wheat flour have entered the war-torn enclave since Israel began to allow limited supplies back in last […]Israeli attacks on Gaza schools could be crimes against humanity: UN probe
June 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, a UN investigative body said on Tuesday, as humanitarian agencies warned of continued mass suffering across the Strip. The UN Human Rights Council-mandated Independent International Commission […]Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line
June 10, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached “unprecedented levels of despair,” the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites. Since the end of May, aid distribution in Gaza has been carried out by a […]Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA
June 10, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The global fertility slump isn’t down to young people turning their backs on parenthood – it’s due to social and economic pressures stopping them from having the children they want, says a new UN report. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) unveiled its flagship State of World Population […]Gaza: Women and girls struggle to manage their periods amid crisis
June 9, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Whether it’s their first time or a routine part of their life, menstruation has become a nightmare for women and girls in Gaza. The conditions they are forced to endure – displacement, overcrowded shelters, and lack of basic hygiene – have turned a natural biological process into […]In Gaza, daily food intake has fallen well below ‘survival’ level
June 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians “vulnerable to starvation”, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday. Latest data simulations from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) point to the average Gazan eating just […]US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza
June 5, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto – blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council. The text, co-sponsored by Algeria, […]Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub
June 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. UN human rights chief Volker Türk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday “trying to access paltry amounts of food” around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel. “Attacks directed against civilians constitute a grave […]Gaza: Guterres urges probe into killings at food distribution sites
June 3, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Secretary-General has condemned the reported killing and injury of Palestinians seeking food aid in Gaza on Sunday, calling for an investigation into the matter. More than 30 people were killed and over 100 wounded while waiting in the morning to get food from two sites […]Helpless in the face of hunger: Gaza families pray for deliverance – or death
June 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. “I stood helpless in the face of my son’s hunger. I cried a lot and told him to drink from our little water to satisfy his hunger,” said Zeenat, a young Palestinian woman speaking to UN News from the battered Gaza Strip. Zeenat and her husband, Moamen […]Desperate hunger drives crowd to storm UN food warehouse in Gaza
May 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Desperate hunger drove crowds of people to overrun a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday, reportedly leaving two dead and several injured in a chaotic scramble for food. UN agencies warn that the decimated enclave is teetering on the brink of further chaos […]UN aid teams plead for access amid reports Gazans shot collecting food
May 29, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. In Gaza, dozens of Palestinians have been reportedly injured and shot trying to collect aid from the new US and Israeli-backed aid distribution facility operating independently of the UN. Unverified footage from Rafah where the privately-run but Israeli military-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is based showed scenes of […]
