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UN issues global alert over teacher shortage

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN issues global alert over teacher shortage 29 February 2024 UNICEF Ghana A teacher at a school in Ghana works alongside his pupils. The world urgently needs 44 million teachers by 2030 in order to make the Sustainable Development Goals a reality, a new report from UNESCO, the UN agency championing education, announced this week.…

UN chief ‘committed’ to Sudan as mission ends

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief ‘committed’ to Sudan as mission ends 29 February 2024 © UNICEF/Proscovia Nakibuuka Clashes and insecurity in Sudan continues to force people to flee their homes in search of safety. António Guterres expressed his strong commitment to the people of Sudan on Thursday as the UN assistance mission based there comes to an end, in line with a Security Council resolution terminating its…

At least one in eight people now obese

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home At least one in eight people now obese 29 February 2024 © UNICEF/Zhanara Karimova Snacks at a shop in Kazakhstan. At least one in eight people on Earth are living with obesity, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, citing a newly released global medical study. That’s one billion…

All parties to Gaza crisis may have committed war crimes: UN rights chief

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home All parties to Gaza crisis may have committed war crimes: UN rights chief 28 February 2024 UN News The Al-Shaboura neighborhood in Rafah, lies in ruins. All parties to the Gaza conflict have been responsible for “clear violations of international humanitarian law including possible war crimes”, according to the UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk…

Afghanistan: UN appalled at revival of public floggings, executions

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Afghanistan: UN appalled at revival of public floggings, executions 28 February 2024 © Unsplash/Mohammad Husaini Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. A revival of Taliban-ordered public executions by gunfire taking place in sports stadiums in several cities in Afghanistan “must cease immediately”, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Wednesday…

Wheat from war-torn Ukraine to feed families affected by conflict in Sudan

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Wheat from war-torn Ukraine to feed families affected by conflict in Sudan 28 February 2024 © WFP/Abubaker Garelnabei Emergency food aid from Ukraine arrives in war-torn Sudan. More than 7,000 tonnes of wheat donated by war-ravaged Ukraine will help to feed one million conflict-affected people in Sudan for a month, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday.…

World News in Brief: Air travel boom erases COVID dip, ‘disturbing’ new anti-LGBT bill in Ghana, rights abuses in Crimea

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Air travel boom erases COVID dip, ‘disturbing’ new anti-LGBT bill in Ghana, rights abuses in Crimea 28 February 2024 © Unsplash/John Oswald Madrid airport, Spain. The UN aviation agency on Wednesday announced that air traffic levels are operating at around two per cent above their high in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic grounded much of the world’s population in…

No medicine, no hope: Doctors describe life under Israeli attack in Gaza

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home No medicine, no hope: Doctors describe life under Israeli attack in Gaza 28 February 2024 UN News Part of the destruction that affected Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. No communications, no medicine and little hope. That’s what operating a hospital in a war zone has become in Gaza, according to a team of doctors trapped for weeks inside the besieged Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis…

Humanitarians launch $674 million appeal urging ‘increased solidarity’ with Haiti

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Humanitarians launch $674 million appeal urging ‘increased solidarity’ with Haiti 28 February 2024 © UNICEF/Herold Joseph Children are taken by their mothers for nutrition screening in the Delams neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Humanitarians are hoping that donors will robustly support a $674 million appeal for Haiti, where armed gangs continue to terrorize the population, a senior UN…

Stories from the UN Archive: Leap year events from UN history

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: Leap year events from UN history 28 February 2024 UN Photo/Evan Schneider UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (centre) briefing correspondents at UN Headquarters in 2004. (file) It’s leap year, which gives February a 29th day only once every four years. This #ThrowbackThursday, we’re looking at what has happened on 29 February in UN history…