Security Council: A sustainable future for Syria depends on ending the war

Senior UN officials warned the Security Council on Wednesday that the world cannot afford to lose focus on Syria, as the humanitarian and political crisis continues to wreak havoc on the country more than a decade after civil war erupted. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2024/08/1153681
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Security Council: A sustainable future for Syria depends on ending the war
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Syria ‘caught in a downward spiral’ UN relief chief tells Security Council 

15 Sep 2021

The UN humanitarian affairs chief warned on Wednesday that Syria, after more than a decade of war, remains “caught in a downward spiral” and that “the country will continue to be a place of tragedy, so long as the conflict continues.” 

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Drop coal or climate change will ‘wreak havoc’ across economy, Australia told

06 Sep 2021

Climate change will “wreak havoc” across the Australian economy if coal is not rapidly phased out, a senior UN official warned on Monday. 

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Nearly 300,000 Syrians displaced from Idlib since mid-December, Security Council hears

03 Jan 2020

Amidst concern for the safety and protection of more than three million civilians in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave, the UN’s most senior humanitarian and political affairs officials briefed the Security Council on Syria behind closed doors on Friday.