The world we share
News and context on the challenges shaping lives around the world, and the efforts helping communities move forward.
A UNFCCC survey shows 73 % of maternal health workers see more heat‑linked complications, while 81 % fear worsening outcomes, prompting calls to embed pregnancy care in climate adaptation and mobilise $1.3 trillion annually for vulnerable nations.
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In three weeks more than 3,700 Yemeni refugees arrived in Djibouti while over 20,000 Ethiopians trekked toward Yemen, stretching the Horn of Africa nation’s limited humanitarian capacity.
Humanitarian aid
UN officials report over 5,700 casualties from Haitian gang warfare, five seafarers killed in a Somali rescue, and 11.7 million women and girls facing new food insecurity as Middle‑East tensions rise.
Climate & resilience
A 2025 UN University study inspired a film that sparked online talks, a local seminar and policy‑level screenings, linking climate risk research with the lived experience of Xochimilco’s chinamperos.
Climate & resilience
UN Environment Programme warns that food waste contributes up to ten percent of global greenhouse‑gas emissions—five times the output of the entire aviation sector—while low‑cost solutions such as waste‑picker integration and black‑soldier‑fly recycling are already being deployed.
Humanitarian aid
UN High Commissioner Volker Türk warns that 676 million women and girls lived within 50 km of active fighting in 2024, yet they remain essential leaders in crisis response and peacebuilding.
Health
WHO data show global life expectancy at 73.3 years in 2023, almost matching 2019, while healthy life expectancy lags and non‑communicable diseases now account for three‑quarters of deaths.
Health
With only Kerem Shalom open for supplies and winter approaching, the WHO warns that delays in medicines, prosthetics and shelter risk disease outbreaks for nearly two million Gazans.
Health
Decades after 67 US nuclear tests, Marshallese families still face cancer and stigma, while Ukraine’s war has killed nearly 1,400 civilians and crippled health services, and new breast‑cancer centres bring advanced diagnostics to the West Bank.
Humanitarian aid
The UN High Commissioner reports over 15,000 civilians killed or injured in Ukraine this year, a 55% rise from 2025, alongside surging sexual violence, drone attacks and collapsing basic services.
Children & education
UNHCR reports that 13.1 million refugee children were of school‑age in 2025, yet 5.8 million remain out of school. Cuts threaten progress in primary, secondary and higher education, with enrollment gaps and gender disparities widening.
Humanitarian aid
Flash floods that killed over 1,450 people in northern Nepal have disrupted livelihoods far beyond the flood zone, threatening 21,400 workers, informal earners and a trade corridor that carries about a fifth of Nepal’s imports from China.
