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‘Protect civilians’ amid clashes in famine-stricken El Fasher, Sudan: UN chief

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Protect civilians’ amid clashes in famine-stricken El Fasher, Sudan: UN chief 11 August 2024 © UNICEF A six-month-old baby is screened for malnutrition during a visit to the hospital in Blue Nile state, Sudan. Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep alarm at the evolving situation in El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, where fierce fighting in the famine-stricken area has been…

First Person: Stitching together a future following deadly siege

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Stitching together a future following deadly siege 11 August 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson A cooperative member sews a garment at Olango Sindaw Ko Kauyagan Producer cooperative in Piagapo, village. A woman who fled her home following a terrorist attack on a city on the Filipino island of Mindanao in 2017 is pinning her future on sewing and selling bags as part of a close-knit…

‘Another day of horror’: UN rights office condemns Israeli strikes at Gazan school

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Another day of horror’: UN rights office condemns Israeli strikes at Gazan school 10 August 2024 © UNRWA An UNRWA-run school, which was converted into a shelter, was severely damaged by previous strikes. (file) The UN Human Rights Office condemned on Saturday the increasing frequency of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) strikes on schools, where hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced…

Witness to the Nakba: A Palestinian teacher is still waiting for a solution 76 years after becoming a refugee in Lebanon

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Witness to the Nakba: A Palestinian teacher is still waiting for a solution 76 years after becoming a refugee in Lebanon 10 August 2024 UN News/Ezzat El-Ferri Mahmoud Al-Said goes through some of his family photos gathered over 76 years of refuge in Lebanon. Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Said remembers his birthplace and the ancestors who came before him. Sevent six years ago, the Palestinian refugee,…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 09 August 2024 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the World Food Programme. El Niño drought emergency in southern AfricaValerie Guarnieri, Assistant…

Indigenous Day celebrates ‘guardians of the environment’

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Indigenous Day celebrates ‘guardians of the environment’ 09 August 2024 © UNEP/Florian Fussstetter Francisca Arara, the head of Acre’s Indigenous Peoples Secretariat, says Indigenous groups are providing a “service to the world” by countering deforestation, seen as crucial to limiting climate change. As countries celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on…

UN rights chief ‘shocked and appalled’ by Israeli minister’s comment on starving Gazans to death

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights chief ‘shocked and appalled’ by Israeli minister’s comment on starving Gazans to death 09 August 2024 UNIS Vienna Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action +30 Symposium. The UN human rights office, OHCHR, called on Friday for the Israeli authorities to monitor senior officials whose public statements on…

Evacuation orders this week affect thousands in north and south Gaza

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Evacuation orders this week affect thousands in north and south Gaza 09 August 2024 © UNRWA لقد تم تدمير جزء كبير من قطاع غزة خلال الصراع. At least 60,000 Palestinians have moved towards western Khan Younis in Gaza in the past 72 hours following three evacuation orders this week, the UN and humanitarian partners reported on Friday.…

Sudan’s displaced millions face escalating hardship amid war and floods

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan’s displaced millions face escalating hardship amid war and floods 09 August 2024 © UNHCR/Ayem Alfadil Displaced women carry their belongings through a flooded gathering site near Kassala, Sudan. Millions of displaced people in Sudan, already suffering from the devastating impact of a nearly 16-month-long war, are now grappling with worsening conditions due to heavy seasonal rains and…

World News in Brief: Ukraine attacks condemned, new cybercrime treaty, ‘alarmingly high’ executions in Iran

8 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Ukraine attacks condemned, new cybercrime treaty, ‘alarmingly high’ executions in Iran 09 August 2024 © UNOCHA/Saviano Abreu Denise Brown, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, speaks to alocal community leader in Chasiv Yar Town in Donetsk Region in October 2023. The outgoing UN senior humanitarian official in Ukraine condemned a deadly Russian attack on Friday…