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Funding cuts are dismantling the frontline organisations working to end violence against women and girls, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Monday.

A new UN Women report, At Risk and Underfunded, based on a global survey of 428 women’s rights and civil society groups, finds that one in three have suspended or shut down programmes aimed at ending gender-based violence.

Together with Maharat Foundation, a women-led NGO in Lebanon that promotes freedom of expression, the UN in Lebanon hosted a one-day workshop to co-create a digital campaign on information integrity as a cornerstone for reforms in Lebanon.

Building on the earlier #InformationIntegrity campaign under the slogan “Information is a right, integrity is a responsibility,” the workshop aims to highlight the crucial role of journalists in promoting transparency, countering disinformation, and empowering citizens to hold institutions accountable. 

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged Israel and Hamas to “fully abide” by the ceasefire and hostage release deal, calling it a “desperately needed breakthrough” that must mark “the beginning of the end of this devastating war.”

Speaking to reporters at UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday, Mr. Guterres welcomed the agreement, based on a proposal by United States’ President Donald Trump, and said it must be “fully implemented.”

Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years under the Assad dictatorship, including during 14 years of civil war which began in 2011.

The Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria (IIMP), headed by Karla Quintana, was created to address one of the conflict’s most painful legacies, the widespread and ongoing disappearances affecting nearly every family in the country.

The explosive growth of AI tools around the world has yet to be matched by effective, internationally agreed rules on how this powerful technology is governed. A high-profile event at UN Headquarters on Thursday is designed to bring effective global AI governance a step closer to reality. 

Investment, optimism and anxiety: these are three of the big drivers of interest in artificial intelligence and its implications. 

The time has come to free the 48 hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza and to stop the bombing, massacres and displacement in the embattled enclave, French President Emmanual Macron told delegates in the UN General Assembly Hall on Monday. 

He was speaking at the resumption of the international conference co-chaired with Saudi Arabia focused on the question of Palestine and the two-State solution with Israel.

Music, memories and messages of peace filled the UN General Assembly Hall on Monday as the world body commemorated 80 years since its founding. 

The ceremony was held as world leaders arrived in New York for the annual debate in the historic chamber, which was darkened and bathed in blue light for the milestone event.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged world leaders to “get serious – and deliver” as they begin arriving in New York for the high-level week of the 80th General Assembly.

Speaking at a press conference at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday in New York, he warned that global divisions, conflicts and crises have taken the very principle of international cooperation to its most fragile inflection point in decades.

“Some call it the World Cup of diplomacy,” Mr. Guterres said.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) participated in the first edition of the AGRI Lebanon Exhibition, held under the patronage of H.E. Minister of Agriculture Dr. Nizar Hani. The event brought together farmers, agribusinesses, technology providers, and policymakers to showcase the latest innovations, foster sustainable practices, and drive economic growth across the agrifood sector.

Under the patronage and in the presence of H.E. Minister of Industry Mr. Joe Issa-El-Khoury, with the financial support of the European Union (EU), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), through its 2Circular Project, in collaboration with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) , launched the Green Industry Finance Forum on 16–17 September 2025 at the Mövenpick Hotel in Beirut.