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Australia and 157 other nations have voted in favour of an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.

This year, escalating gang violence has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands of people in Haiti from their homes.

The new climate finance goal was announced at the end of the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference — COP29.

Over the next two weeks, representatives from around 200 countries will discuss plans to tackle climate change.

Israel has banned the UN agency responsible for providing aid to Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, and has classified it a terror group.

The UN Chief described the conflict in Sudan as living in a “nightmare” of hunger, disease, displacement, and “mass ethnic violence”.

This week, both Tuvalu and the UNEP called on Australia to strengthen its climate policies to avoid the worst case scenario.

Australia abstained from a UN vote urging Israel to end its occupation of Palestine, which was overwhelmingly supported.

The United Nations human rights chief said he’s “horrified” at violent raids in PNG that has killed 26 people, mostly children.

Over half the African country’s population will likely experience high levels of “acute food insecurity” between June and September 2024.

An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza has killed 40 people who were hiding out inside a United Nations-run school, according to local authorities.

Australia has restored funding to UNRWA in Gaza after a temporary pause, over allegations UN workers were linked to Hamas.

It comes as more than 100 people in Gaza were killed on Thursday while trying to access aid. Hamas and Israel have provided differing accounts of what happened.

Staff working at a UN human rights agency have been ordered to leave Venezuela after the UN expressed concerns about a detained activist.

Countries at last year’s UN climate conference made a “historic” agreement to set up a fund to compensate poorer countries for climate-related extreme weather events.

The death toll from a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan has climbed above 2,400.

Australia has the most expensive bottled water in the world. The average Australian spent $575 on bottled water in 2021.

A report commissioned with support from the United Nations has found that weakened areas of the ozone layer could be fully recovered by 2066.