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WHO continues to urge China to share data five years after COVID-19

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home WHO continues to urge China to share data five years after COVID-19 31 December 2024 © UNICEF/Érico Hiller Nurses at a health centre in Baturité, Ceará state, Brazil pack COVID vaccines for distribution. (file) The World Health Organization (WHO) this week reflected on COVID-19, and ongoing efforts to understand the disease, five years after its emergence…

UN support continues in Syria and Lebanon

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN support continues in Syria and Lebanon 30 December 2024 © UNOCHA/Bilal Alhammoud UN vehicles pause during a journey through Aleppo in Syria. The UN Special Envoy for Syria continues to uphold the need for a Syrian-led transition in his ongoing talks on the way forward for the country. …

Gaza: Hospitals closed, aid denied, civilians trapped

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Hospitals closed, aid denied, civilians trapped 30 December 2024 UN News A family sits outside a makeshift shelter in Gaza. Essential services that sustain life - healthcare, emergency aid, and humanitarian access - are being systematically dismantled in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA…

In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this road to ruin’

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this road to ruin’ 30 December 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Summit of the Future high-level event at United Nations Headquarters. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for making 2025 “a new beginning” in his message for the New Year, issued on Monday…

The inspiring female engineer breathing new life into Yemen’s ancient capital

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home The inspiring female engineer breathing new life into Yemen’s ancient capital 30 December 2024 UNESCO/Yemen Harbiya al-Hamiry, a Yemeni heritage engineer who embarked on a mission to revive Yemen’s historical buildings. Harbia Al-Himiary  has a special connection to Sana’a, whose war-damaged buildings she is helping to restore, as part of a UNESCO-supported initiative…

UN chief hails ‘peacemaker, human rights champion’, former President Jimmy Carter

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief hails ‘peacemaker, human rights champion’, former President Jimmy Carter 30 December 2024 UN Photo/Teddy Chen President Jimmy Carter addressing delegates in the General Assembly Hall at UNHQ in New York. (1977) The UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday expressed his deep sadness at the passing of former United States President Jimmy Carter, who has died aged 100, at his…

UN official warns against further escalation amid attacks in Yemen, Israel and the Red Sea

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN official warns against further escalation amid attacks in Yemen, Israel and the Red Sea 30 December 2024 UNOCHA/Charlotte Cans The Faj Attan neighbourhood in Yemen is regularly hit by airstrikes. Most of the population has left. A senior UN official appealed on Monday for an end to the hostilities between Israel and Houthi rebels in Yemen which have taken “an escalatory turn” in recent…

2024 to become the hottest year on record

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home 2024 to become the hottest year on record 30 December 2024 © Unsplash/Nikola Ancevski 2024 is set to be the warmest year on record. The year 2024 is set to be the warmest on record, capping a decade of unprecedented heat fuelled by human activities, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).…

The climate crisis: 5 things to watch out for in 2025

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home The climate crisis: 5 things to watch out for in 2025 29 December 2024 © UNICEF/Truong Viet Hung A student in Viet Nam presents a seedling. The Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, will be the global focus of efforts to tackle the climate crisis in November 2025, when it hosts one of the most significant UN climate conferences in recent years.…

Sudan conflict: ‘There cannot be a military solution to this war’

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan conflict: ‘There cannot be a military solution to this war’ 29 December 2024 联合国难民署/Reason Moses Runyanga 逃离苏丹冲突的家庭抵达南苏丹乌韦勒的一个转运中心。 Sudan’s civil war, which began in April 2023, continues to inflict misery on the country’s population, fuelling a massive humanitarian disaster and driving over 12 million people from their homes.…