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Getting children back to school in deadly gang-ravaged Haiti

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Getting children back to school in deadly gang-ravaged Haiti 07 April 2024 © UNOCHA/Giles Clarke A mother helps her child to study at the Delmas 4 Olympique Boxing Arena where they are now sheltering. Against the backdrop of a humanitarian crisis and gang violence in Haiti, UN agencies are warning that children are suffering not just from a lack of schooling but also through witnessing…

Planning the post-war reconstruction and recovery of Gaza

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Planning the post-war reconstruction and recovery of Gaza 06 April 2024 UN News A residential block in the Al-Shaboura neighborhood in the city of Rafah, lies in ruins. The destruction wrought across the Gaza Strip by Israel in the six months since the massacre of Israeli and other citizens by Hamas on 7 October 2023 makes for grim reading – over 33,000 people killed and, according to the…

Gaza: ‘Systematic dismantling of healthcare must end’ says WHO

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: ‘Systematic dismantling of healthcare must end’ says WHO 06 April 2024 UN News Footage of destruction of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, following the end of the latest Israeli siege. The World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated that hospitals must be respected and protected; they must not be used as battlefields. With the largest hospital in Gaza largely destroyed and out of action,…

First Person: The genocide survivor protected by a mass murderer

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: The genocide survivor protected by a mass murderer 06 April 2024 © Eric Eugene Murangwa A girls team at the Play2Remember tournament at the Togetherness Cooperative Centre in Kigali, Rwanda. When the Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda began in April 1994 Eric Eugene Murangwa was a footballer at one of the country’s top clubs. Although he is a Tutsi, he was protected by a…

Mother makes 200km emergency trip across rural Madagascar to save baby

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Mother makes 200km emergency trip across rural Madagascar to save baby 06 April 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson A premature baby is fed in a hospital incubator. A young mother in Madagascar has been describing how she was forced to make a 200km emergency journey on challenging rural roads to a specialist regional hospital after she experienced difficulties giving birth at home…

Gaza: Human Rights Council resolution urges arms embargo on Israel

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Human Rights Council resolution urges arms embargo on Israel 05 April 2024 UN News A child follows/watches the recovering of bodies from under the rubble of a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The UN’s top human rights body adopted a resolution on Friday condemning the alleged “use of starvation of civilians as a method of…

Sudan: Aid lifeline reaches Darfur region in bid to avert ‘hunger catastrophe’

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: Aid lifeline reaches Darfur region in bid to avert ‘hunger catastrophe’ 05 April 2024 © UNICEF/Antony Spalton Displaced people in Darfur camp collecting water. (file) Two aid convoys carrying lifesaving supplies have reached Sudan’s Darfurs for the first time in months, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, as humanitarians try to avert a “hunger catastrophe”…

Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change in military tactics

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change in military tactics 05 April 2024 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the media outside the Security Council on the situation in Gaza. Israel must make meaningful changes in the way it is fighting in Gaza to avoid civilian casualties while also undergoing “a true paradigm…

World News in Brief: Security Council condemns DR Congo attacks, cholera testing breakthrough, ‘my health, my right’ campaign

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Security Council condemns DR Congo attacks, cholera testing breakthrough, ‘my health, my right’ campaign 05 April 2024 © UNHCR/Blaise Sanyila One of the many sites for internally displaced people that have sprung up in North Kivu where 1.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes since March 2022. The UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned the latest…

Gaza: ‘No protection’ for civilians, aid workers, Security Council hears

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: ‘No protection’ for civilians, aid workers, Security Council hears 05 April 2024 © WFP/Arete/Abood al Sayd A boy carries a large bowl on his head at the Al-Qastal School in the Gaza Strip. Aid officials called on the Security Council on Friday to step in to stop the carnage in Gaza as the war enters its sixth month amid a man-made famine, Israel’s constant bombardment, targeted…