The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that at least 7,667 people died or went missing on migration routes in 2025, with sea crossings among the deadliest. Of these, 2,185 people were in the Mediterranean; 1,214 were on the Western Africa/Atlantic route. The figures are lower than the nearly 9,200 deaths recorded in 2024.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime today released an analysis showing illegal waste flows are causing economic, public-health and environmental damage, especially in low-income countries. It found that organized crime groups and corporations are involved in waste crime estimated to be worth billions of dollars.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the International Conference on the Global Partnership against Online Scams, held in Bangkok today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the eleventh session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, in Doha today:
The Security Council today debated the future of the United Nations residual war-crimes court, established in 2010 to complete the remaining work of the Rwanda and former Yugoslavia tribunals after their closure in 2015 and 2017, including proposals to transfer certain technical functions — such as archives management and support for national prosecutions — to the UN Secretariat.
In Sudan, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today called for urgent action to safeguard children and essential services in the country. UNICEF estimates that 10 million people have been displaced there; half of those 10 million are children. This is the highest level of child displacement in the world.
A new report from the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), titled “At Risk and Underfunded”, warns that sweeping aid cuts are jeopardizing the organizations essential to ending violence against women and girls.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Cybercrime Convention signing ceremony, held in Hanoi today:
On 25 July 2025, members of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) concerning Haiti received a briefing by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
As the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals nears the end of its mandate, speakers in the Security Council today called for enhanced cooperation from Member States to ensure justice for perpetrators of atrocities, war crimes and genocide committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, while some urge that the “outdated” instrument be shuttered.
