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Toxic air threatens children’s lives across East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF warns

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Toxic air threatens children’s lives across East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF warns 06 February 2025 © UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin A kindergarten teacher helps a child with a face mask before outdoor activities in Nalaikh, Mongolia. More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned in a new analysis…

Syria: Assad’s armed forces must face accountability, says rights probe

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Syria: Assad’s armed forces must face accountability, says rights probe 06 February 2025 © UNOCHA/MohanadZayat More than two million displaced Syrians continue to live in temporary shelters. Widespread pillaging and the destruction of property in Syria by all parties to the conflict have largely gone unpunished and likely amount to war crimes, top independent rights investigators reporting…

‘Step Up the Pace’ and end female genital mutilation, UN says

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Step Up the Pace’ and end female genital mutilation, UN says 06 February 2025 Courtesy of State Department for Gender and Affirmative Action, Kenya Kenyans celebrate following the signing of commitments by councils of elders to end female genital mutilation in the Samburu and Mount Elgon regions. As the world marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation…

Sudan: Top aid official warns against escalating violence in two states

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: Top aid official warns against escalating violence in two states 06 February 2025 © UNOCHA/Ala Kheir Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan due to the ongoing conflict. South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan are on the brink of catastrophe as violence continues to escalate at an alarming rate, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on…

Iraq: How the world helped Mosul rise from the rubble of war

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Iraq: How the world helped Mosul rise from the rubble of war 06 February 2025 © UNESCO UNESCO helped support the reconstruction of Mosul, which has revived the once war-ravaged skyline of Iraq's second largest city. Terrorist fighters with ISIL/Da’esh invaded Iraq’s second city of Mosul in 2014, destroying centuries-old landmarks in a bid to erase its history and impose a bleak and…

‘She had a syringe, razor blade, and bandages’: Surviving genital mutilation

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘She had a syringe, razor blade, and bandages’: Surviving genital mutilation 06 February 2025 © Neuvième-UNFPA Djibouti Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, 24, a resident of Djibouti, survied female genital mutilation when she was 10. Now a volunteer for the “Elle & Elles” network, with the support of UNFPA, she canvasses her neighborhood and others to convince residents to end the [...] Some 230…

Gaza: UN health agency urges rapid scale-up of medevacs as thousands remain in critical condition

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: UN health agency urges rapid scale-up of medevacs as thousands remain in critical condition 06 February 2025 © WHO A WHO team visits a hospital in northern Gaza to assess damage. More than 12,000 critically ill and injured patients, including at least 5,000 children, urgently need to be evacuated from Gaza, amid the crumbling health system, the UN World Health Organization (WHO)’s top…

Gaza: More than a million receive food aid since the start of the ceasefire

3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: More than a million receive food aid since the start of the ceasefire 05 February 2025 © WFP A Palestinian family picks up food from a distribution point in Nusierat in Gaza. Over one million people in the Gaza Strip have received food assistance since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect nearly three weeks ago, UN aid coordination office OCHA said in an update on…

Clock ticking on South Sudan’s transition, Security Council hears

3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Clock ticking on South Sudan’s transition, Security Council hears 05 February 2025 © UNICEF/Mark Naftali Local community members visit a UN-supported health worker in rural South Sudan, where access to healthcare remains a major challenge. As South Sudan enters its extended transitional period this month, the UN’s top envoy to the country has warned that the clock is ticking to accomplish…

Explainer: How family planning saves lives

3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Explainer: How family planning saves lives 05 February 2025 © UNFPA/Abdul Razzaq Zakzouq Medical workers perform an emergency operation at the Idlib Maternity Hospital in Syria. Sakina Sani was married off when she was 12 years old amid conflict and food shortages in northern Nigeria. She became pregnant at 15 but miscarried and then had two children in rapid succession…