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DR Congo: Clean water ‘a lifeline’ for around 364,000 children a day in Goma

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo: Clean water ‘a lifeline’ for around 364,000 children a day in Goma 03 March 2025 © UNICEF/Jospin Benekire A child fills a container at a water tap installed by UNICEF in Kanyaruchinya near Goma, in the eastern DR Congo. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing lifesaving clean water supplies to 700,000 people a…

First Person: Voices of the forgotten in Haiti, ‘crying out in the silence of distress’

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Voices of the forgotten in Haiti, ‘crying out in the silence of distress’ 03 March 2025 © IOM/Antoine Lemonnier IOM staff member, Rose, supports displaced people as they pick up humanitarian supplies. Gang violence, political instability and economic turmoil have displaced over 700,000 people in Haiti, forcing families from their homes with nothing but what they can carry; some…

Oceans of opportunity squeezed dry by unsustainable use

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Oceans of opportunity squeezed dry by unsustainable use 03 March 2025 © UNICEF/Ashwa Faheem A stretch of severely eroded beach in Dhiffushi island, Maldives. The booming ocean economy sustains hundreds of millions of people, but it is being squeezed dry by overfishing, pollution, climate change and waste, UN economists warned on Monday, in a call for smarter, more concerted action to protect…

Nuclear energy watchdog chief raises ‘serious’ safety concerns over sites in Ukraine and Iran

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Nuclear energy watchdog chief raises ‘serious’ safety concerns over sites in Ukraine and Iran 03 March 2025 © IAEA/D. Calma IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi briefs the Board of Governors in Vienna. In his latest address to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors on Monday, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi warned of the escalating nuclear safety risks…

Food prices soar as Israel blocks aid into Gaza

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Food prices soar as Israel blocks aid into Gaza 03 March 2025 © WHO The UN delivers supplies to Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza. Israel’s move to prevent all aid from entering the Gaza Strip after Hamas reportedly refused to accept a plan to continue with phase one of the fragile ceasefire has had an immediate impact, including a 100-fold increase in the price of flour and vegetables…

‘Dangerous nuclear rhetoric and threats’ trigger stark wake-up call: UN chief

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Dangerous nuclear rhetoric and threats’ trigger stark wake-up call: UN chief 03 March 2025 ICAN/Tim Wright Demonstrators call for a ban on nuclear weapons. (file) Dramatically evolving geopolitical tensions amid “dangerous nuclear rhetoric and threats” are a stark wake-up call for States to take action to support the legally binding atomic weapon ban treaty, UN Secretary-General António…

Human Right Committee Opens One Hundred and Forty-Third Session

1 month 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Human Right Committee Opens One Hundred and Forty-Third Session 03 March 2025 Meeting Summaries Committee Elects New Chairperson and Bureau, Five New Members Make Solemn DeclarationThe Human Right Committee this morning opened its one hundred and forty-third session, during which it will examine the reports of Albania, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Mongolia, Montenegro and Zimbabwe on their implementation of the provisions of the…

Ukrainians continue to flee the frontline, as war stretches into fourth year

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Ukrainians continue to flee the frontline, as war stretches into fourth year 02 March 2025 © UNICEF/Oleksii Filippov A teenage boy stands in front of a destroyed school in the village of Partyzanske close to the frontline. Communities on the frontline of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine are being killed, injured and displaced on a daily basis, as the war grinds on…

Guterres urges parties to find a way forward on next phase of Gaza ceasefire

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres urges parties to find a way forward on next phase of Gaza ceasefire 01 March 2025 UN Photo/Loey Felipe UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the situation in the Middle East. As the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal concludes, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is closely following developments in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian…

‘This is our land’ – Building Gaza’s future from the wreckage of war

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘This is our land’ – Building Gaza’s future from the wreckage of war 01 March 2025 UN News Sufyan Al-Majdalawi inspects the rubble of his home in Jabalia in northern Gaza. At night he sleeps under a tarpaulin sheet on the ruins of his family home. Like others returning to northern Gaza after months of being displaced by war, Sufian Al-Majdalawi clings to whatever he can find…