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Unprecedented joint call to shield children on the move from violence

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Unprecedented joint call to shield children on the move from violence 24 May 2023 © UNICEF/Ahmed Elfatih Mohamdee Displaced Sudanese children at a temporary shelter.. The UN’s top advocate on ending violence against children, joined UN agencies on Wednesday in highlighting the urgent need to protect the rights of young people on the move, amid spiralling crises worldwide…

‘No time to spare’: Israel-Palestine ceasefire holds, but hunger, tensions mount

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘No time to spare’: Israel-Palestine ceasefire holds, but hunger, tensions mount 24 May 2023 UN News/Maher Nasser Nearly 600,000 people have visited the Holy Sites in Jerusalem since the beginning of Ramadan. Swift action is needed to prevent flare ups of Israeli-Palestinian violence and avert a looming food crisis, the top UN official in the Middle East told the Security Council on…

Cyclone Mocha: urgent funding needed as hunger, diseases loom

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Cyclone Mocha: urgent funding needed as hunger, diseases loom 23 May 2023 © UNOCHA/Pierre Lorioux Men repair a shelter damaged by Cyclone Mocha in Nget Chaung 2 IDP camp in Rakhine state in Myanmar. As a clearer picture emerges of the trail of destruction left by Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar and Bangladesh, humanitarians are continuing to provide life-saving assistance, and the need for an…

UN ‘determined’ to end backsliding on development goals, Guterres tells ECOSOC

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN ‘determined’ to end backsliding on development goals, Guterres tells ECOSOC 23 May 2023 © UNDP The Sustainable Development Goals are a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Despite going into reverse on more than 30 per cent of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it’s not too late to “turn the tide” said the Secretary-General on Tuesday, who told Member…

Uphold promise to protect civilians caught in conflict: Guterres

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Uphold promise to protect civilians caught in conflict: Guterres 23 May 2023 © UNOCHA/Damilola Onafuwa Medina, 16, attends class in a space set up by Save the Children at Dalori camp, Maiduguri, Save the Children set up spaces and services for vulnerable children in communities and camps for displaced people across Nigeria. The world is failing to live up to its commitment to protect…

Gaza: Over a quarter of UNRWA centre patients needing mental health support

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Over a quarter of UNRWA centre patients needing mental health support 23 May 2023 © UNOG/Srdan Slavkovic Akihiro Seita (right), UNRWA Director of Health, addresses the media at UN Geneva. More than one in four patients screened in violence-afflicted Gaza at UN-run health centres, require mental health and psychosocial support, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (…

WFP plan aims to prevent further food aid diversion in Ethiopia

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home WFP plan aims to prevent further food aid diversion in Ethiopia 23 May 2023 WFP Ethiopia WFP convoy trucks delivering food and nutrition supplies to Adi Harush, Mai Aini, Mekelle and Shire in Tigray, Ethiopia. Following widespread diversion of lifesaving food aid in Ethiopia last month, the World Food Programme (WFP) has strengthened safeguards and controls in a bid to prevent further misuse…

Protecting civilians in times of crisis

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Protecting civilians in times of crisis 23 May 2023 Credit: UNOCHA/Giles Clarke Mohammed, 16, lives in Al Saberi area in Benghazi. He, his parents, and four siblings fled their home which was bombed during the war in 2015. Civilians continue to bear the brunt of conflict-related violence and destruction, and during the Protection of Civilians (PoC) Week 2023, observed from 22 to 25 May, the…

Biodiversity Day: Protecting humanity’s ‘life-support system’

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Biodiversity Day: Protecting humanity’s ‘life-support system’ 22 May 2023 Unsplash/Justin DoCanto Healthy ecosystems are crucial for humanity's survival. The theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity, observed on Monday, centres on moving from talk to action: build back biodiversity…

Ghana peacekeeper named UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year

1 year 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Ghana peacekeeper named UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year 22 May 2023 UNISFA UNISFA Ghanaian Engagement Platoon Commander, Captain Cecilia Arzua, is t, the UN's Military Gender Advocate of the Year for 2022.distributes sweets to children in Abyei. A Ghanaian peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) will receive the 2022 United…