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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 28 February 2025 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Trade and Development. Escalating attacks on education in HaitiGeetanjali Narayan, United Nations Children…

Haiti: Massive surge in child armed group recruitment, warns UNICEF

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: Massive surge in child armed group recruitment, warns UNICEF 28 February 2025 © IOM/Antoine Lemonnier People who fled their homes due to violence are now living in a school. The ongoing emergency in Haiti is crushing children’s chances of an education and a better future as scores of youngsters are recruited by heavily armed and violent gangs, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned…

Gaza: Unified Arab position will ‘help guide the way forward’

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Unified Arab position will ‘help guide the way forward’ 28 February 2025 © UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel Los gazatíes regresan a sus vecindarios devastados en el norte de Gaza. UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday stressed that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza must hold, urging all parties to honour their commitments and prevent a breakdown of the agreement…

US aid cuts will make world ‘less healthy, less safe and less prosperous’: Guterres

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home US aid cuts will make world ‘less healthy, less safe and less prosperous’: Guterres 28 February 2025 UN Photo/Manuel Elías Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to the press at the UN Headquarters, in New York. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday that severe cuts to humanitarian and development funding by the United States will have devastating consequences for…

Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps 28 February 2025 © IAEA/D. Calma Continuity of evidence is important to ensure chain of custody in any investigation that involves nuclear forensics. There were just under 150 incidents of illegal or unauthorised activity involving nuclear and other radioactive material reported last year, according to the…

Children already dying in Sudan’s stricken Zamzam camp: WFP

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Children already dying in Sudan’s stricken Zamzam camp: WFP 28 February 2025 WFP/Mohamed Galal Food aid is delivered to displaced people in Zamzam camp in North Darfur. UN humanitarians on Friday warned again that thousands of families could starve in the coming weeks inside the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur…

Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature 28 February 2025 © WWF-International/Suyash_Kesh A tiger at Bandhavgarh National Park, India. Governments on Friday reached agreement on a strategy to raise an additional $200 billion each year to better protect the world’s flora and fauna by 2030…

‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief 28 February 2025 © UNICEF/Minzayar Oo Rains lash an internally displaced persons camp in northern Myanmar. (file) Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday, describing conditions there as “a litany of human suffering…

UN Secretary-General meets with the Joint Inspection Unit

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN Secretary-General meets with the Joint Inspection Unit 28 February 2025 Press Release The JIU Chairperson, Carolina Fernandez Opazo and JIU Executive Secretary, Uren Pillay met with the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, 26 February 2025. The Secretary-General expressed his appreciation for the work of the JIU and committed the organization to the implementation of the Unit’s recommendations.He…

Packed with promise: Wisam’s journey back to school in Sudan

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Packed with promise: Wisam’s journey back to school in Sudan 27 February 2025 © UNICEF/Ahmed Mohamdeen Elfatih Wisam is among many children returning to school in Port Sudan amid the ongoing war. Wisam sits in her classroom, absorbed in her work, her fingers gripping a blue-coloured pencil, carefully sketching a flower in her notebook, one of more than 100,000 displaced students in war-torn…