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Humanitarians call for urgent aid access to Gaza   

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home Humanitarians call for urgent aid access to Gaza    12 October 2023 WHO occupied Palestinian Territory Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. WHO warns that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are at a breaking point. Gaza is on the brink of running out of food, water, electricity and critical supplies, UN humanitarians warned on Thursday…

UN rights body extends mandate of Special Rapporteur on Russia

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights body extends mandate of Special Rapporteur on Russia 12 October 2023 UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré A general view of a Human Rights Council meeting. (file) The United Nations premier human rights body on Thursday extended the mandate of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Russia for a further year…

Explainer: How UN delivers life-saving aid amid crises

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home Explainer: How UN delivers life-saving aid amid crises 12 October 2023 © WFP/Ali Jadallah El Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) de la ONU distribuyó pan a las familias refugiadas de la violencia continuada en Gaza. What does it take to get food, medicine, emergency education, and shelter to record numbers of people in some of the most dangerous places on Earth? The UN does this around the…

UN teams ramp up aid after another earthquake strikes Afghanistan

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN teams ramp up aid after another earthquake strikes Afghanistan 11 October 2023 © UNICEF/Osman Khayyam People living in Herat Province, Afghanistan, are coming to terms with the devastation caused to property by the earthquake. UN teams have stepped up their response after another strong earthquake struck western Afghanistan early on Wednesday, just days after powerful earthquakes killed…

Iran: Rights experts ‘dismayed’ over continued imprisonment of Nobel Laureate Mohammadi

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home Iran: Rights experts ‘dismayed’ over continued imprisonment of Nobel Laureate Mohammadi 11 October 2023 © VOA Narges Mohammadi, winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. UN independent human rights experts on Wednesday called for the immediate release of Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering commitment to women’s…

UN chief urges immediate action to prevent Israel-Gaza conflict spillover

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief urges immediate action to prevent Israel-Gaza conflict spillover 11 October 2023 © UNRWA/Mohammed Hinnawi Families in Gaza are sheltering in UNRWA schools. UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday voiced grave concern over the escalating conflict in Israel and Gaza and stressed the need to prevent the violence from spreading into the wider region…

Sudan: Massive protection crisis continues warns UNHCR

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: Massive protection crisis continues warns UNHCR 11 October 2023 © UNICEF/Donaig Le Du Refugees from Sudan wait to collect aid items in a border village in Chad. The displacement crisis prompted by ongoing conflict in Sudan continues unabated with nearly six million people forced out of their homes and women and children making up nearly nine in 10 of those uprooted, the UN refugee…

World News in Brief: recovery efforts in Ukraine, human rights in Sudan and WHO report

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: recovery efforts in Ukraine, human rights in Sudan and WHO report 11 October 2023 © UNHCR/Anna Liminowicz A young girl from Ukraine plays at her temporary home at the Kapelanka hostel in Poland. By the end of 2022, the number of school-aged refugees globally jumped nearly 50 per cent. In Ukraine, a UN team on the ground is working closely with the Government, local…

In Iceland, UN deputy chief says all conflict – across regions and with nature – must end

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home In Iceland, UN deputy chief says all conflict – across regions and with nature – must end 11 October 2023 UN/Pier Paolo Cito Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed during a tour of Iceland's second-largest, and fastest melting, glacier, Langjökull, and its ice cave. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has wrapped up a three-day visit to Iceland, where she stressed the UN’s dual…

Colombia stepping up efforts achieve historic peace goals, UN envoy says

1 year 6 months ago Breadcrumb Home Colombia stepping up efforts achieve historic peace goals, UN envoy says 11 October 2023 UNVMC/Camilo Vargas The UN is supporting the reintegration of the families of former combatants in Colombia. As Colombia prepares to mark the seventh anniversary of the peace agreement that ended the decades-long conflict there, the Government has increased its efforts to realize the accord’s goals, the…