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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

2 days 19 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 09 May 2025 UN Geneva Press Briefing  Rolando Gómez of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme,…

Costa Rica’s refugee lifeline at breaking point amid funding crisis

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Costa Rica’s refugee lifeline at breaking point amid funding crisis 09 May 2025 © UNHCR/Carolina Fuentes Lillian and her four children at their home in Cartago, Costa Rica who fled Nicaragua six years ago. Costa Rica’s long-standing commitment to protecting refugees is under threat as severe funding cuts cripple support for surging numbers of Nicaraguan asylum seekers, the UN refugee agency…

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

2 days 22 hours 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…

UN warns copper shortage risks slowing global energy and technology shift

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UN warns copper shortage risks slowing global energy and technology shift 09 May 2025 © ILO/Bobot Go A worker in the Philippines installs a new electric cable atop a pylon. High-tension power lines made of copper are the backbone of electricity infrastructure worldwide. A looming global copper shortage could stall the world’s transition to clean energy and digital technologies unless smarter…

More than 50 million in West and Central Africa at risk of hunger

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home More than 50 million in West and Central Africa at risk of hunger 09 May 2025 © WFP/Lena von Zabern Oumalis Abdraman and her six-month-old baby arrived from Western Darfur in Koulbus where they received WFP treatment against for malnutrition. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that millions of people in West and Central Africa are facing record hunger as conflict, displacement,…

UNFPA calls on US to reconsider ban on future funding

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UNFPA calls on US to reconsider ban on future funding 09 May 2025 UNFPA Myanmar A UNFPA staff member distributes relief supplies to a woman affected by the March earthquakes in Myanmar. The United States’ decision to halt future funding to the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, will slash critical health services for women and girls worldwide, the agency warned on Friday…

Haiti: Displaced families grapple with death ‘from the inside’ and out

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: Displaced families grapple with death ‘from the inside’ and out 09 May 2025 © UNICEF/Herold Josep A child displaced by violence in city of Mirebalais, Haiti, draws a picture of their new home. Shattered by her husband’s death during the rising tide of gang violence in Haiti last year, Christiana and her six children fled 223 kilometres from their hometown to the city of Mirebalais,…

World News in Brief: ‘Massive’ needs in Sudan, DR Congo aid shortfall, support for Congolese refugees and Angola cholera relief

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: ‘Massive’ needs in Sudan, DR Congo aid shortfall, support for Congolese refugees and Angola cholera relief 09 May 2025 © UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal Families that fled fighting in Zamzam and El Fasher in North Darfur, seek refuge in Tawila. UN humanitarian teams have completed a mission to the Sudanese town of Tawila to provide life-saving assistance for civilians recently…

Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat Press Conference

3 days 12 hours 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

3 days 22 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.…