The World Meteorological Organization and the UN's emergency relief chief asked for immediate help on Wednesday for communities already hit by El Niño. The WMO says this El Niño could be unprecedented in strength.
The UN Environment Programme's Emissions Gap Report 2026 says global warming will pass 1.5°C. It names the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement as one of two reasons its projections are worse than last year's.
Ben Saul, a Special Rapporteur, told the General Assembly's Third Committee that the killings amount to crimes against humanity. Other independent experts reported on displacement, migrant families and attacks on judges.
Independent experts appointed by the Human Rights Council say there is no information on where forcibly returned North Koreans are or how they are treated. They call on China to stop repatriating them and on North Korea to disclose their fate.
The World Health Organization is helping Nigerian authorities after a woman who travelled from Uganda tested positive. Nigerian authorities are monitoring 44 contacts.
The UN human rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory says the season has had an “ominous start” and has urged states and donors to act. The UN aid coordination office recorded at least 160 settler attacks linked to the harvest in the first two weeks of October.
Graciela Gatti Santana told the General Assembly that the Mechanism for the closed Rwanda and former Yugoslavia tribunals cannot carry out its strategic plan without Council authorization. Several states urged the Council to act.