Tom Fletcher, United Nations aid chief gives an update to media at the United Nations in Geneva, 11 March 2026. (Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

🚢UN urges 'exemptions' to get aid through Strait of Hormuz. UN aid chief Tom Fletcher warned that the hostilities around the shipping route were having a “a direct impact on our humanitarian supplies, including going to areas of key need in sub-Saharan Africa”.

♀️UN diplomats revel in US setback at women’s rights forum. The General Assembly erupted in cheers and applause from delegates after the US attempts to rewrite a progressive UN document on women's rights were struck down one after the other.

🇸🇻El Salvador’s mass arrest policy may have led to crimes against humanity, study shows. A group of NGOs, including the International Commission of Jurists and the International Federation for Human Rights, documented arbitrary detentions, torture, murder and other serious violations committed during a mass incarceration campaign without due process, launched four years ago to break up the rule of violent gangs.

🪖As aid stalls in Haiti, can attack drones and soldiers end gang violence? An expanded international military mission is getting ready to deploy in the hopes of containing gang violence gripping the Caribbean island country.

🇨🇭‘Diplomacy is also a craft’. Jürg Lauber, Switzerland’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva and an alumnus of the University of Zürich, speaks about his career and modern diplomacy as he prepares to step down from his post soon.