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Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use aid as ‘bait’

6 hours 59 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use aid as ‘bait’ 09 May 2025 UNRWA A displaced girl waits her turn to get some water for her family in the city of Rafah in Gaza. Israel’s plan to take control of relief assistance in Gaza would put civilian lives in danger and cause mass displacement while using aid as “bait”, UN humanitarians said on Friday…

Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat Press Conference

20 hours 59 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat Press Conference 09 May 2025 Press Conference Announcement Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions David Ogden, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm ConventionsChristine Fuell, Executive Secretary, ad interim, of the Rotterdam Convention

UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples

1 day 6 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples 08 May 2025 Unsplash/Arturo Rivera A street vendor in Antigua, Guatemala. The UN Human Rights Committee has found that Guatemala did not follow through on promises to resettle and compensate Mayan Peoples who remain forcibly displaced.…

Guterres welcomes election of Pope Leo ‘at a time of great global challenges’

1 day 6 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres welcomes election of Pope Leo ‘at a time of great global challenges’ 08 May 2025 UN News/Laura Quiñones St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the announcement of a new Pope on Thursday.  His Holiness Pope Leo XIV – born Robert Francis…

‘She cries in her sleep’: Deeper crisis looms beneath devastation from Myanmar quake

1 day 6 hours ago Breadcrumb Home ‘She cries in her sleep’: Deeper crisis looms beneath devastation from Myanmar quake 08 May 2025 © UNFPA Yu Yu, a midwife, provides care for a newborn baby and the mother after her delivery in an emergency. An estimated 3,800 people have died as a result of the devastating earthquakes that struck Myanmar on 28 March. Six weeks on, the situation in Myanmar remains dire, with whole…

World News in Brief: South Sudan urged to avoid slide to war, Türk calls on EU not to weaken landmark law, Ukraine and Mali updates

1 day 6 hours ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: South Sudan urged to avoid slide to war, Türk calls on EU not to weaken landmark law, Ukraine and Mali updates 08 May 2025 UNMISS/Nektarios Markogiannis Une famille a trouvé refuge dans une ancienne base de la MINUSS dans le sud-ouest du Soudan du Sud (Archives) The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) together with the African Union mission there, and other…

UN Security Council extends South Sudan mission amid rising instability

1 day 6 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UN Security Council extends South Sudan mission amid rising instability 08 May 2025 UN Photo/Evan Schneider Security Council adopts resolution 2779 (2025) extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 30 April 2026. The Security Council has extended the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for another year, as the world’s youngest nation…

Port Sudan: No let-up in drone attacks as UN chief urges peace

1 day 6 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Port Sudan: No let-up in drone attacks as UN chief urges peace 08 May 2025 © WFP/Abubakar Garelnabei أم تحمل رضيعها في بورت سودان، شرق السودان. Amid reports that renewed drone strikes on a key Sudanese aid hub were thwarted late Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres added his voice to increasingly urgent calls for serious peace negotiations to end more than two years of war in…

UNRWA condemns ‘storming’ of schools in East Jerusalem

1 day 6 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UNRWA condemns ‘storming’ of schools in East Jerusalem 08 May 2025 WFP Video Gaza faces severe shortages of food, water and medicine. (file) The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has strongly condemned the forced entry by Israeli security forces into three of its schools in occupied East Jerusalem, describing it as a violation of children’s right to education and safety…

Absent faces, destroyed homes – young students paint the pain of Gaza

2 days 6 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Absent faces, destroyed homes – young students paint the pain of Gaza 07 May 2025 UN News Fatima Al-Za’anin, a displaced Palestinian girl from Beit Hanoun (Gaza), speaks about her drawings in an art exhibition organized by UNRWA in Gaza City as part of its mental health and psychosocial support services. Students displaced by the war in Gaza have been channeling their anguish into art in…