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Kyiv hospital struggles to care for patients amid air strikes

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Kyiv hospital struggles to care for patients amid air strikes 30 August 2024 © UNFPA Ukraine/Isaac Hurskin A family celebrates a birth outside the Kyiv Regional Perinatal Centre. Oksana, who is 26 weeks pregnant, described a harrowing scene in a Kyiv hospital in Ukraine during air raids, with staff scrambling to help patients and newborns into shelters…

Afghanistan: UN will ‘continue to engage’ with Taliban, following threat to withdraw cooperation

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Afghanistan: UN will ‘continue to engage’ with Taliban, following threat to withdraw cooperation 30 August 2024 © UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani A woman walks through a corridor in a village in Zindajan district, Afghanistan. (File) The United Nations will continue engaging with all stakeholders in Afghanistan, advocating for human rights and equality, the global body’s Spokesperson said on Friday,…

Sudan: ‘Dire consequences for survivors’ lacking medical and trauma services

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: ‘Dire consequences for survivors’ lacking medical and trauma services 30 August 2024 © UNICEF/Mohamed Zakaria An estimated 6.7 million people are at risk of gender-based violence in Sudan, with displaced, refugee and migrant women and girls particularly vulnerable. The devastating lack of adequate care for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Sudan, including sexual and…

Humanitarian pauses in Gaza pave way for polio vaccinations

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Humanitarian pauses in Gaza pave way for polio vaccinations 30 August 2024 © UNRWA Children collect water in the Gaza Strip. UN aid teams have reached a tentative agreement with parties involved in the war in Gaza for humanitarian pauses to allow 640,000 children to be vaccinated amid an outbreak of the virus, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday…

Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Congratulate Turkmenistan on Achievements in Child Rights, Raise Questions on Stateless Children and Military Schools

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Congratulate Turkmenistan on Achievements in Child Rights, Raise Questions on Stateless Children and Military Schools 29 August 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its review of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Turkmenistan, with Committee Experts congratulating the State on all its achievements in child rights,…

West Bank crisis: UN chief calls for immediate halt to Israeli strikes

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home West Bank crisis: UN chief calls for immediate halt to Israeli strikes 29 August 2024 © UNOCHA/Médecins Sans Frontières Aid workers assess the damage following a military raid on a refugee camp in Jenin. (file, July 2023) As the crisis in the West Bank continues to escalate alongside the ongoing war in Gaza, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an “immediate cessation” of…

Security Council debates Gaza as WHO announces polio pauses for lifesaving vaccination campaign

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Security Council debates Gaza as WHO announces polio pauses for lifesaving vaccination campaign 29 August 2024 © UNRWA Many Gazans are living in temporary shelters due to the conflict. The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on the continuing crisis in Gaza and the occupied West Bank on Thursday. Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced agreement had been…

Level of unprotected teenage sex ‘worryingly high’, WHO finds

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Level of unprotected teenage sex ‘worryingly high’, WHO finds 29 August 2024 © Unsplash/Sinitta Leunen Condom use among sexually active adolescents in Europe is on the decline. Condom use among sexually active adolescents has declined significantly since 2014, with rates of unprotected sex worryingly high, according to a new report from the World Health Organization’s Regional Office…

Guterres highlights Timor-Leste’s ‘growing international influence’

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres highlights Timor-Leste’s ‘growing international influence’ 29 August 2024 UN Photo/Kiara Worth UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and Xanana Gusmao, Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, answer questions from the media in Dili. The UN Secretary-General continued his historic visit to Timor-Leste on Thursday, emphasising the positive role the country can play on the regional…

Floods, landslides wreak havoc across South Asia

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Floods, landslides wreak havoc across South Asia 29 August 2024 © UNICEF/Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash Flood-affected residents construct makeshift bamboo rafts to navigate submerged streets in Feni district, southeast Bangladesh. Over 18 million people in Bangladesh have been affected by severe monsoon conditions, with more than 1.2 million families trapped as flash floods submerge vast areas of…