Myanmar

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published their 2025 Myanmar Opium Survey, and that report found that poppy cultivation is at a 10-year high in the country. The survey analyses data collected in Myanmar during the fourth growing season since the military takeover.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are deeply saddened over the tragic capsizing of a boat off the coast of Malaysia and Thailand carrying up to 70 people from Myanmar, including Rohingya. Some 13 people were brought ashore by Malaysian authorities; at least 21 people died.

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.

In Gaza, UN partners report that many people are unable to leave the north due to insecurity, and are struggling to survive amid severe food and shelter shortages. Today, the UN Satellite Centre published a preliminary analysis showing damage to 83 per cent of structures in Gaza City alone.

The World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that rising violence by gangs in Haiti’s capital is restricting humanitarian access and pushing families deeper into hunger as extreme funding shortfalls force WFP to slash rations and suspend programmes.

As the Rohingya flee brutal attacks and persecution in Myanmar, speakers at the General Assembly today called for safe zones, sustained international support and justice, including by referring the situation to the International Criminal Court.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today called on the country’s de facto Taliban authorities to immediately and fully restore nationwide Internet and telecommunications access. Since 16 September, Internet access has been interrupted or cut in many parts of Afghanistan, without prior notice.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, delivered by Chef de Cabinet Courtenay Rattray, for the UN High-level Conference on the Situation of Human Rights of Rohingya and other Minorities in Myanmar, in New York today:

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report showing that the overall human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has not improved over the past decade, and in many instances, has degraded, bringing even more suffering to the population.

In the Central African Republic, United Nations peacekeepers have handed over a newly constructed court building to national authorities in N’délé, in the country’s north-east. This marks a first for the town, which until now had no judicial infrastructure meeting minimum standards.