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World News in Brief: Terror attacks in Pakistan and Burkina Faso, Yemen floods update, mass graves in Libya

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Terror attacks in Pakistan and Burkina Faso, Yemen floods update, mass graves in Libya 30 August 2024 © Asim Ahmed People gather outside a hospital in Quetta following the bomb blast in Mastung, Balochistan, Pakistan. A UN independent human rights expert on Friday condemned recent terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, which resulted in approximately 200 deaths, and in…

UN provides emergency cash injection for global crisis hotspots

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN provides emergency cash injection for global crisis hotspots 30 August 2024 © UNICEF/Frank Dejongh A UNICEF team delivers health and nutrition supplies, including vaccines, to communities in northeast Ethiopia. The UN’s top relief official on Friday allocated $100 million from the Organization’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to bolster critically underfunded humanitarian…

Kyiv hospital struggles to care for patients amid air strikes

8 months 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…