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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

2 months 3 weeks 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

2 months 3 weeks 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

2 months 3 weeks 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…

Guterres calls for full Gaza ceasefire, rejecting ‘ethnic cleansing’

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres calls for full Gaza ceasefire, rejecting ‘ethnic cleansing’ 05 February 2025 UN News Children in Gaza stand on debris from a destroyed building. UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to continue pushing for a full ceasefire and the release of all hostages in Gaza, and “to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing” in the enclave, in a speech in New York…

DR Congo: UN mission offers protection to ‘vulnerable populations’, despite huge challenges

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo: UN mission offers protection to ‘vulnerable populations’, despite huge challenges 05 February 2025 UN News A man carries water in a camp for displaced people in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda-backed M23 rebels continued to consolidate their hold over North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Wednesday, despite declaring a ceasefire…

‘The new generation is different’: In Djibouti, activists lobby to end female genital mutilation

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘The new generation is different’: In Djibouti, activists lobby to end female genital mutilation 05 February 2025 © UNFPA-UNICEF Women and girls in a village in Djibouti’s Tadjourah region, where a community-led movement has successfully lobbied to abandon female genital mutilation. “I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down,” said Hawa’a Mohamed Kamil, a peer educator in…

World News in Brief: US executive orders continue, killings in Sudan, breast cancer alert in Africa, human rights in Tunisia

2 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: US executive orders continue, killings in Sudan, breast cancer alert in Africa, human rights in Tunisia 05 February 2025 © OHCHR The UN Human Rights Council meeting on the human rights situation in Ukraine. New executive orders issued by the White House are set to further impact the cooperative, multilateral work of the United Nations, two weeks since the United States…