The accord, which brought together Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, enshrines the voluntary commitment of these States not to develop, acquire, test or deploy […]
Category: Asia – Pacific
Earth Day: The battle to save a drowning Pacific island nation
In 2025, more than 90 per cent of Tuvaluans applied for a visa scheme to obtain residency or citizenship in Australia. Just before that, in […]
Record number of Rohingya refugees died at sea in 2025: UNHCR
Some 5,000 Rohingya refugees are believed to have drowned at sea over approximately the last decade. “This makes, sadly, the Andaman Sea and the Bay of […]
Middle East conflict chokes end of supply chain as lights go out in the Pacific
“We are at the end of the supply chain,” Tuya Altangerel, a senior UN Development Programme (UNDP) official in the Pacific region, told UN News “so […]
Myanmar: WFP reports fragile recovery one year after deadly earthquake
The World Food Programme’s (WFP) latest monitoring shows a fragile recovery from the disaster. In the affected regions of Sagaing and Mandalay, one in six households continue to face moderate to severe […]
Afghanistan: UN condemns deadly attack on rehab centre in Kabul
“A reported overnight strike on the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Facility in Kabul, managed by the Ministry of Interior, killed more than 400 people, and injured […]
Deepfakes, voice cloning and weaponised AI: Global wake-up call to organised fraud
“The scammer was extraordinarily believable,” Kim Sawyer, a former university professor in Melbourne, said. “He had a British accent, used all the right financial market […]
Myanmar at a ‘crossroads’: The world must not forsake civilians there, urges UN expert
Presenting his final report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the outgoing Special Rapporteur who examines conditions in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, urged governments […]
Humanitarian crisis ‘worsening’ in Afghanistan as war erupts in the Middle East
The conflict in the Middle East is adding further strain and instability to Afghanistan with commodity prices already rising in the “already fragile economy”, according […]
Radio Begum: A rare public space for women in Afghanistan
“They don’t come on their own by bus or taxi because it’s very complicated for a woman to move around the city, especially for young […]
