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Committee against Torture Concludes Eighty-First Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Cameroon, Jordan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Namibia and Thailand

5 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Committee against Torture Concludes Eighty-First Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Cameroon, Jordan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Namibia and Thailand 22 November 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee against Torture this morning closed its eighty-first session after adopting its concluding observations on the reports of Cameroon, Jordan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Namibia and Thailand on their…

World News in Brief: Mpox update, Haiti violence, deadly strikes in Ukraine, Pakistan attack condemned

5 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Mpox update, Haiti violence, deadly strikes in Ukraine, Pakistan attack condemned 22 November 2024 © UNICEF/Mirindi Johnson A young patient is receiving treatment at the UNICEF-supported mpox isolation and treatment unit at Kavumu Hospital in South Kivu province, DR Congo, on 10 September 2024. The mpox outbreak continues to constitute a public health emergency of…

Children and amputees bear brunt of Myanmar’s deadly landmine epidemic

5 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Children and amputees bear brunt of Myanmar’s deadly landmine epidemic 22 November 2024 © UNICEF/Minzayar Oo A 14-year-old boy in eastern Myanmar who lost his right leg and suffered deep injuries to his left leg and both hands, after stepping on a landmine while searching for his family’s injured cow. Myanmar has become the world’s deadliest country for landmine and unexploded ordnance…

WFP requires $16.9 billion in 2025 as hunger reaches alarming highs

5 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home WFP requires $16.9 billion in 2025 as hunger reaches alarming highs 22 November 2024 © WFP/Eulalia Berlanga En Rupchai (estado de Unity), Sudán del Sur, la gente recoge alimentos lanzados desde un avión. The World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday called for some $16.9 billion to address the escalating global hunger crisis – or roughly what the world spends on coffee in just two weeks…

Middle East crisis: Live updates for 22 November

5 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Middle East crisis: Live updates for 22 November 22 November 2024 © UNRWA/Ashraf Amra People queue for bread at a bakery in Khan Younis, Gaza. The crisis in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel continues unabated as people struggle to live in the midst of conflict. Follow this live blog for the latest updates from humanitarians on the ground, our colleagues in Geneva and at UN Headquarters in New York.…

Lebanon crisis: Intensifying violence is deadliest in decades, warn aid agencies

5 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Lebanon crisis: Intensifying violence is deadliest in decades, warn aid agencies 22 November 2024 © UNHCR/Ximena Borrazas A plume of smoke caused by the impact of a missile strike is visible over the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut, Lebanon, on 15 November. The past two months of intensifying Israeli bombardment in Lebanon have been the “deadliest and most devastating” in decades as…

COP29 draft deal proposes wealthy nations give $250 billion in climate finance

5 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home COP29 draft deal proposes wealthy nations give $250 billion in climate finance 22 November 2024 UNFCCC/Kiara Worth Civil society groups at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, advocate for climate financing initiatives that are in line with the Paris Agreement. A new draft finance deal delivered to harried negotiators in Baku on Friday – the final scheduled day for the UN climate talks that have been…

WFP scales up operations to reach millions in Sudan

5 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home WFP scales up operations to reach millions in Sudan 22 November 2024 WFP Displaced Sudanese people wait to receive food from WFP. A World Food Programme (WFP) convoy arrived in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur, Sudan, on Friday – the first since famine was declared there three months ago, the UN agency has reported.…

2024 deadliest year ever for aid workers, UN humanitarian office reports

5 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home 2024 deadliest year ever for aid workers, UN humanitarian office reports 22 November 2024 © UNOCHA/Themba Linden A shredded UN flag flies over a destroyed school building in Khan Younis. The death toll of humanitarian workers in 2024 has become the “deadliest on record”, with 281 killed globally, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, reported on Friday.…

Acute hunger stalks one in four people in DR Congo, warn aid agencies

5 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Acute hunger stalks one in four people in DR Congo, warn aid agencies 21 November 2024 UN News/George Musubao Esther Josephine, a refugee in Goma, DR Congo selling beans, a small business after being given cash assistance by WFP. UN humanitarians warned on Thursday that one in four people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo suffers from “crisis or worse” levels of hunger that affects a…