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United Nations

February 2025

  • A woman cleaning a bathroom

    The Guardian view on women’s unpaid labour: attitudes have shifted, but the burden hasn’t

    Editorial: The Wages for Housework campaign asked a provocative question. More than 50 years later, it is still relevant

31 January 2025

  • Emily Damari speaks on a phone held by her mother

    Freed Gaza hostage told Starmer that Hamas held her in Unrwa premises, her mother says

    British-Israeli Emily Damari was taken on 7 October 2023 and says Hamas denied her medical treatment after shooting her twice
  • A Palestinian man cooks with children at an Unwra school being used as a shelter in Gaza City in November, 2023

    Israel’s ban on Unrwa in Gaza and the West Bank is inhumane

    Letters: Stephen McCloskey condemns the ban, while Bernie Evans condemns western leaders for not standing up to protect Palestinians
  • Dino Mahtani

    Another major war is looming – and western support for Rwanda is fuelling it

    Dino Mahtani
    Rwandan-backed M23 rebels are seizing control of areas within the DRC. This will only escalate unless western governments act, says researcher and writer Dino Mahtani

30 January 2025

  • US medical doctors with critical-care experience in Gaza Strip hospitals discuss rebuilding Gaza's health system at the UN in New York on Thursday.

    UN chief urges evacuation of 2,500 children from Gaza as doctors warn of ‘imminent risk’ of death

    António Guterres issues call after saying he was ‘deeply moved’ by meeting with US doctors who worked in Gaza
  • Backs of two people entering gatway with Unrwa health centre sign to the left and flags above

    International Unrwa staff leave as Israel’s ban on activity takes effect

    UN aid agency says work in West Bank and Gaza will continue as long as possible despite ban covering East Jerusalem HQ
  • composite image of man, TikTok notification on phone, rows of people in uniform, and hand signing document

    All the executive orders Trump has signed so far

    The president has signed orders to pardon January 6 rioters, scrap DEI policies and end ‘gender radicalism’ in military

29 January 2025

  • Building and palm tree behind fence

    US politics live
    Trump order to turn Guantánamo Bay into migrant detention center prompts outcry – as it happened

  • An M23 fighter stands guard at the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s La Corniche border crossing with Rwanda on 29 January 2025.

    The Guardian view on conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a disaster with many makers

  • Sudanese soldiers celebrate the liberation of an oil refinery in North Bahri

    Sudan’s army deserves the world’s support

  • A young girl stands in front of the rubble of destroyed buildings holding a sack of flour

    Unrwa closure imminent as last-bid attempts to stop Israeli ban fail

  • Cate Blanchett launches fund for refugee film-makers

  • ‘It will devastate people’: Palestinians despair at looming Unrwa closure

28 January 2025

  • A woman and child in front of a UN refugee agency location in Kenya.

    UN aid agencies cut back operations after Trump’s 90-day funding suspension

  • Displaced Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza

    The Guardian view on the future of Gaza: Trump is threatening already frail hopes

27 January 2025

  • Families walking towards buses.

    Rwandan-backed rebels M23 claim capture of eastern DRC city Goma

    Fighters enter city on border with Rwanda after lightning advance, raising risk of broader regional war
  • Rwandan security officers and soldiers escorting DRC troops who surrendered in Goma, eastern DRC.

    France seeks UN resolution naming Rwanda as backer of M23 rebels in DRC

    M23’s lightning advance into east DRC being supported by up to 4,000 Rwandan troops, say UN officials
  • A driver prays as aid trucks line up to enter Gaza in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday 26 January.

    Israel insists it is going ahead with Unrwa ban – what it may mean for Palestinians

    UN agency ordered to vacate HQ by Thursday – just as aid is being increased to Gaza after ceasefire

26 January 2025

  • Israel kills at least 22 Lebanese while they attempt to return to their homes – video

  • People return to their homes amid scenes of destruction, in Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village with Israel.

    Israeli troops kill more than 20 in Lebanon and one in Gaza as residents try to return

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