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‘No time to spare’: Israel-Palestine ceasefire holds, but hunger, tensions mount

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘No time to spare’: Israel-Palestine ceasefire holds, but hunger, tensions mount 24 May 2023 UN News/Maher Nasser Nearly 600,000 people have visited the Holy Sites in Jerusalem since the beginning of Ramadan. Swift action is needed to prevent flare ups of Israeli-Palestinian violence and avert a looming food crisis, the top UN official in the Middle East told the Security Council on…

OHCHR hybrid press conference

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home OHCHR hybrid press conference 24 May 2023 Press Conference Announcement UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk press conference with Geneva-based journalists Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

WHO hybrid press conference

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home WHO hybrid press conference 23 May 2023 Press Conference Announcement Launch of the final report of the council on the economics of health for all Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General Mariana Mazzucato, Council Chair

PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 23 May 2023 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, International Federation of Red Cross and Red…

UNRWA hybrid press conference

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home UNRWA hybrid press conference 23 May 2023 Press Conference Announcement Health conditions of Palestine refugees in the Near East Akihiro Seita, UNRWA Director of Health 

Cyclone Mocha: urgent funding needed as hunger, diseases loom

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home Cyclone Mocha: urgent funding needed as hunger, diseases loom 23 May 2023 © UNOCHA/Pierre Lorioux Men repair a shelter damaged by Cyclone Mocha in Nget Chaung 2 IDP camp in Rakhine state in Myanmar. As a clearer picture emerges of the trail of destruction left by Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar and Bangladesh, humanitarians are continuing to provide life-saving assistance, and the need for an…

UN ‘determined’ to end backsliding on development goals, Guterres tells ECOSOC

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home UN ‘determined’ to end backsliding on development goals, Guterres tells ECOSOC 23 May 2023 © UNDP The Sustainable Development Goals are a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Despite going into reverse on more than 30 per cent of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it’s not too late to “turn the tide” said the Secretary-General on Tuesday, who told Member…

Uphold promise to protect civilians caught in conflict: Guterres

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home Uphold promise to protect civilians caught in conflict: Guterres 23 May 2023 © UNOCHA/Damilola Onafuwa Medina, 16, attends class in a space set up by Save the Children at Dalori camp, Maiduguri, Save the Children set up spaces and services for vulnerable children in communities and camps for displaced people across Nigeria. The world is failing to live up to its commitment to protect…

Gaza: Over a quarter of UNRWA centre patients needing mental health support

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Over a quarter of UNRWA centre patients needing mental health support 23 May 2023 © UNOG/Srdan Slavkovic Akihiro Seita (right), UNRWA Director of Health, addresses the media at UN Geneva. More than one in four patients screened in violence-afflicted Gaza at UN-run health centres, require mental health and psychosocial support, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (…

WFP plan aims to prevent further food aid diversion in Ethiopia

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home WFP plan aims to prevent further food aid diversion in Ethiopia 23 May 2023 WFP Ethiopia WFP convoy trucks delivering food and nutrition supplies to Adi Harush, Mai Aini, Mekelle and Shire in Tigray, Ethiopia. Following widespread diversion of lifesaving food aid in Ethiopia last month, the World Food Programme (WFP) has strengthened safeguards and controls in a bid to prevent further misuse…