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World News in Brief: Menstrual hygiene day, Guterres condemns DPRK missile launch, conflict in Sudan
28 May 2024
UNICEF/Henry Bongyereirwe
Even further, 427 million children are unable to access sanitation services that are “single-sex and usable at school”; meanwhile one in five schools lacks sanitation services altogether.
Today marks Menstrual Hygiene Day and a joint report from the World…
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Guterres ‘heartbroken’ by images of deadly strikes on Rafah camp
28 May 2024
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Israeli air strikes on 26 May hit a camp for displaced people in Rafah, southern Gaza, reportedly claiming over 35 Palestinian lives, including women and children.
As fighting continues in Gaza, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday that he was “heartbroken” by images of people killed and…
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Gender equality, youth aspirations keys to sustainable peace, Security Council hears
28 May 2024
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
A wide view of the UN Security Council meeting on the role of women and youth in the maintenance of international peace and security.
Gender equality and the aspirations of young people are crucial for ensuring sustainable peace and security, the UN’s top political and…
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Indian peacekeeper is UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year
28 May 2024
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Major Radhika Sen, Indian military peacekeeper serving with the UN Organization Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), wins the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award.
An Indian peacekeeper deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), who…
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SIDS drowning in debt and ‘running on empty’, warns Guterres in Antigua
28 May 2024
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A view of Antigua and Barbuda, the host of the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4).
International financing is the fuel for sustainable development, but small island States are “running on empty”, drowning in debt and rising sea levels due to…
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Gaza: UN officials condemn Israeli airstrikes on camp for displaced
27 May 2024
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International Medical Corps Field Hospital in Rafah, Gaza.
Senior UN officials have condemned Israeli air strikes on Sunday that hit a camp for displaced people in Rafah, southern Gaza, reportedly claiming over 35 Palestinian lives, including women and children…
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Papua New Guinea landslide: 670 feared dead, says UN migration agency
26 May 2024
IOM/ Mohamud Omer
Hundreds were buried in a landslide in Yambali village, Papua New Guinea, on May 24, 2024
Friday’s landslide in the north of Papua New Guinea is likely to have been far more deadly than first thought, Serhan Aktoprak, the country head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said…
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In Antigua, island youth build ‘wall of commitment’ to turn tide against climate crisis
26 May 2024
UN News/ Matthew Wells
Delegates to the SIDS Global and Youth Action Summit including Adelaide Nafoi of Samoa (second from left) after completing their section of the “wall of commitment”.
It may be built out of recyclable cardboard boxes, but when world leaders officially open the Fourth…
