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World News in Brief: ‘Barbaric’ sexual violence in Sudan, Haiti’s transitional council in place, rights experts condemn Iran rapper’s death sentence

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: ‘Barbaric’ sexual violence in Sudan, Haiti’s transitional council in place, rights experts condemn Iran rapper’s death sentence 25 April 2024 © UNICEF/Spalton An aerial view of children and their families standing near temporary shelters at the Khamsa Dagiga site for displaced people in Zelingei Town, Central Darfur, Sudan. (file) The international community must take…

Senior UN aid official urges comprehensive response to Haiti crisis

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Senior UN aid official urges comprehensive response to Haiti crisis 25 April 2024 © UNICEF/Herold Joseph Thousands been driven from their homes in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. The ongoing crisis in Haiti is having a “massive” and “devastating” impact, with over half the population acutely food insecure and more than one million staring at emergency levels of hunger, a senior UN World…

UNRWA seeks $1.2 billion to meet urgent needs in Gaza and the West Bank

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home UNRWA seeks $1.2 billion to meet urgent needs in Gaza and the West Bank 24 April 2024 © UNRWA Children in Gaza are being exposed to deeply distressing events and trauma. The UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, launched a $1.2 billion appeal on Wednesday to address the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip and to respond to needs in the West Bank as…

Russia vetoes Security Council draft resolution on a weapon-free outer space

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Russia vetoes Security Council draft resolution on a weapon-free outer space 24 April 2024 © NASA A view of the Earth and a satellite as seen from outer space. Russia used its veto to quash a draft resolution aimed at keeping weapons out of outer space. The Security Council rejected the draft…

UN migration agency assists survivors of deadly shipwreck off Djibouti

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home UN migration agency assists survivors of deadly shipwreck off Djibouti 24 April 2024 © IOM/Alexander Bee Migrants sleep underneath a boat on the beach in Obock, Djibouti. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is offering medical care, food, shelter and psychosocial support to 33 migrants who survived a shipwreck off the coast of Djibouti on Monday, as local authorities continue…

New global campaign boosts lifesaving vaccines

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home New global campaign boosts lifesaving vaccines 24 April 2024 © 儿基会/Saleh Hayyan 也门的一名卫生工作者在社区宣传活动中为一名小男孩接种疫苗（资料图片）。 Two UN agencies alongside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the global vaccine alliance Gavi launched on Wednesday a campaign to scale up programmes to save lives, marking the start of World Immunisation Week, celebrated annually during the last week of April…

UN coordinator in Gaza announces new plan to deliver lifesaving aid

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home UN coordinator in Gaza announces new plan to deliver lifesaving aid 24 April 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Sigrid Kaag, UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, briefs the Security Council. A new mechanism for getting lifesaving aid into Gaza will start in the coming days, UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator Sigrid Kaag announced in a briefing to the…

Polluting rivers, beaches and the ocean: How can Trinidad solve its plastics problem?

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Polluting rivers, beaches and the ocean: How can Trinidad solve its plastics problem? 24 April 2024 UN News/ Brianna Rowe Plastic waste on Maraval River, Trinidad Plastic pollution blocks rivers, chokes oceans and makes its way into the food chain as microplastics. It’s a global environmental crisis, and Small Island Developing States are especially vulnerable, having to cope with detritus…

Healing page by page in earthquake-affected Türkiye

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Healing page by page in earthquake-affected Türkiye 23 April 2024 © IOM/Anıl Bahşi Over a year after devastating earthquakes, Muhammed is bringing life back to his hometown through the power of books. Book by book and page by page, Türkiye’s booklovers are bringing life back to cities ravaged by the deadly 2023 earthquakes through the power of reading, with help from cash grants from the UN…

From Dominica to Vogue: Big dreams on a small island

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home From Dominica to Vogue: Big dreams on a small island 23 April 2024 UN News/ Brianna Rowe Josiah Johnson has benefited from Work Online Dominica, a Government programme supported by the UN. Becoming a successful international fashion photographer is hard for anyone, but it’s particularly difficult if you grow up in Dominica, a small Caribbean country regularly hit by hurricanes. This hasn’t…