It was doubtful that any generation of Earth's inhabitants has ever witnessed "such a perfect storm of global economic chaos, a war with global consequences, and an unwillingness or inability to find a consensus to deal with the catastrophe," the President of Ghana told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
Taking the rostrum at the annual United Nations General Assembly, Iran's President decried as a great injustice the "double standard" exhibited by Western nations towards what he described as his country's peaceful nuclear activities.
Libyan President Muhammad Yunus Al-Manfi told the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that as it moves towards building a State of institutions and establishing principles of democracy, his country has through a decade of "pain and hope".
Referring to a world in a state of turbulence, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on Wednesday called for multilateral cooperation and efforts to address intersecting crises, including climate change, food price inflation, conflict and migration.
Strongly denouncing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, United States President Joe Biden warned United Nations Member States on Wednesday that "if a nation can pursue imperial ambitions without consequences, then we put at risk everything this great institution stands for."
During a private meeting of Heads of State and Government, held on Wednesday at UN Headquarters in New York, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for more action and leadership to tackle the climate crisis, warning that efforts to keep the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels is "on life support".
The world is falling "far short" of commitments made three decades ago to protect minority communities, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, appealing for concrete action to counter this neglect.
The salvage of the ageing supertanker FSO Safer, off the Yemeni coast, can now begin, the UN said on Wednesday, after it announced that more than $75 million has been pledged to carry out the vital operation.
Since the Myanmar military launched its "disastrous" coup last year, UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said on Wednesday that conditions have worsened, "by any measure".
The number of people facing life-threatening levels of hunger worldwide without immediate humanitarian aid, is expected to rise steeply in coming weeks, the UN said on Wednesday, in a new alert about looming famine in the Horn of Africa and beyond.
From heart disease to cancer and diabetes, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) now outnumber infectious diseases as the "top killers globally," the UN health agency said in a new report, released on Wednesday, with one person under 70 dying every two seconds from an NCD.
On Wednesday, the UN announced the 2022 cohort of Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals, recognizing their efforts to bring about a fairer future for people and the planet.
