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Gaza power cut impacts safe water access for hundreds of thousands

1 month 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza power cut impacts safe water access for hundreds of thousands 10 March 2025 © WFP A family gathers in a damaged building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Severe water shortages in Gaza have reached critical levels, with only one in 10 people currently able to access safe drinking water, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Monday.…

Afghanistan: Top UN envoy calls for ‘a moment of realism’, as Taliban’s isolation grows

1 month 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Afghanistan: Top UN envoy calls for ‘a moment of realism’, as Taliban’s isolation grows 10 March 2025 人道协调厅/Charlotte Cans 阿富汗超过2300万人需要人道主义援助。 The top UN envoy for Afghanistan on Monday underscored the need for realistic engagement with the country as humanitarian and human rights crises deepen amid growing international isolation…

Drug traffickers running routes through war zones, top UN official warns

1 month 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Drug traffickers running routes through war zones, top UN official warns 10 March 2025 UNODC/Ioulia Kondratovitch There have been a record number of seizures of amphetamine-type stimulants. A “new black market” for synthetics and drug trafficking through war zones are fuelling instability around the world, the chief of the UN drugs and crime office said on Monday…

Women, girls bear brunt of cyberbullying against persons with disabilities

1 month 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Women, girls bear brunt of cyberbullying against persons with disabilities 10 March 2025 © UNICEF/Raphael Pouget Social networks and online apps should be more inclusive of the needs of all people in society, the Human Rights heard, in a debate covering digital and assistive technologies. States must do more to prevent cyberbullying and overcome unequal access to assistive technology which…

New Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

1 month 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 10 March 2025 Presentation of Credentials António da Conceição, the new Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to his appointment…

Ukraine reels from one of the deadliest days of war

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Ukraine reels from one of the deadliest days of war 09 March 2025 © UNOCHA A humanitarian convoy delivered aid to residents of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region in January. Attacks across Ukraine on Friday reportedly left 21 civilians dead and scores injured, making it one of the deadliest days this year, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country said in a statement issued on…

UN rights chief raises alarm over escalating violence in Syria

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights chief raises alarm over escalating violence in Syria 09 March 2025 © UNOCHA/Ali Haj Suleiman Parts of northwestern Syria lie in ruins following nearly 14 years of conflict. The killing of civilians in coastal areas in northwest Syria must cease immediately, the UN rights chief said on Sunday following a series of coordinated attacks reportedly launched by elements of the former…

Explainer: The Commission on the Status of Women and why it matters

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Explainer: The Commission on the Status of Women and why it matters 09 March 2025 © UN Women/Ryan Brown Women in East Java, Indonesia, discuss how they can contribute to peace in their communities. Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN…

Special Commemoration of International Women’s Day 2025

1 month 2 weeks ago 08 March 2025 Intergenerational Dialogue on Beijing +30…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 07 March 2025 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the representatives and spokespersons of the United Nations Refugee Agency, UN Women, the International Labour Organization and the World Meteorological Organization.Urgent support needed as 1 million displaced in north-west Syria yearn for home Celine…