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Gaza’s recovery must be built on more than steel and concrete: Guterres

1 month 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza’s recovery must be built on more than steel and concrete: Guterres 04 March 2025 © UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel Gazans continue to return to their destroyed homes. The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday stressed that the “true foundation” of recovery and reconstruction in Gaza must be based on a clear and agreed political framework, not just bricks and mortar…

US cuts mean ‘essential’ UN mental health teams in Ukraine risk closure

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home US cuts mean ‘essential’ UN mental health teams in Ukraine risk closure 03 March 2025 © UNFPA Ukraine UNFPA’s mobile psychosocial support teams travel across Ukraine, including to the front lines, offering immediate emergency interventions as well as access to longer-term assistance. Some 640,000 women and girls in Ukraine will be affected by cuts to psychosocial support, gender-based…

‘Naked struggle for power and resources’ leaves civilians paying unbearable price: UN human rights chief

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Naked struggle for power and resources’ leaves civilians paying unbearable price: UN human rights chief 03 March 2025 © UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel A boy sits amongst the destruction of the Al-Touam neighbourhood in the northern Gaza Strip. As 120 conflicts rage around the world from the DR Congo to Gaza and from Sudan to Ukraine, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Monday urged the…

DR Congo: Clean water ‘a lifeline’ for around 364,000 children a day in Goma

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo: Clean water ‘a lifeline’ for around 364,000 children a day in Goma 03 March 2025 © UNICEF/Jospin Benekire A child fills a container at a water tap installed by UNICEF in Kanyaruchinya near Goma, in the eastern DR Congo. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing lifesaving clean water supplies to 700,000 people a…

First Person: Voices of the forgotten in Haiti, ‘crying out in the silence of distress’

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Voices of the forgotten in Haiti, ‘crying out in the silence of distress’ 03 March 2025 © IOM/Antoine Lemonnier IOM staff member, Rose, supports displaced people as they pick up humanitarian supplies. Gang violence, political instability and economic turmoil have displaced over 700,000 people in Haiti, forcing families from their homes with nothing but what they can carry; some…

Oceans of opportunity squeezed dry by unsustainable use

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Oceans of opportunity squeezed dry by unsustainable use 03 March 2025 © UNICEF/Ashwa Faheem A stretch of severely eroded beach in Dhiffushi island, Maldives. The booming ocean economy sustains hundreds of millions of people, but it is being squeezed dry by overfishing, pollution, climate change and waste, UN economists warned on Monday, in a call for smarter, more concerted action to protect…

Nuclear energy watchdog chief raises ‘serious’ safety concerns over sites in Ukraine and Iran

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Nuclear energy watchdog chief raises ‘serious’ safety concerns over sites in Ukraine and Iran 03 March 2025 © IAEA/D. Calma IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi briefs the Board of Governors in Vienna. In his latest address to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors on Monday, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi warned of the escalating nuclear safety risks…

Food prices soar as Israel blocks aid into Gaza

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Food prices soar as Israel blocks aid into Gaza 03 March 2025 © WHO The UN delivers supplies to Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza. Israel’s move to prevent all aid from entering the Gaza Strip after Hamas reportedly refused to accept a plan to continue with phase one of the fragile ceasefire has had an immediate impact, including a 100-fold increase in the price of flour and vegetables…

‘Dangerous nuclear rhetoric and threats’ trigger stark wake-up call: UN chief

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Dangerous nuclear rhetoric and threats’ trigger stark wake-up call: UN chief 03 March 2025 ICAN/Tim Wright Demonstrators call for a ban on nuclear weapons. (file) Dramatically evolving geopolitical tensions amid “dangerous nuclear rhetoric and threats” are a stark wake-up call for States to take action to support the legally binding atomic weapon ban treaty, UN Secretary-General António…

Ukrainians continue to flee the frontline, as war stretches into fourth year

2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Ukrainians continue to flee the frontline, as war stretches into fourth year 02 March 2025 © UNICEF/Oleksii Filippov A teenage boy stands in front of a destroyed school in the village of Partyzanske close to the frontline. Communities on the frontline of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine are being killed, injured and displaced on a daily basis, as the war grinds on…