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Syria: UN scales up aid deliveries as regional fighting continues

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Syria: UN scales up aid deliveries as regional fighting continues 26 February 2025 © UNICEF/PAC Trucks carrying essential humanitarian supplies travel from Türkiye through the Bab al-Salam border crossing, into northwest Syria. UN humanitarians on Wednesday reported a scaling up of humanitarian aid into northwest Syria, even as hostilities continue to impact civilians and limit access in…

Human Rights Council: Gaza ceasefire must hold, Türk insists

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Human Rights Council: Gaza ceasefire must hold, Türk insists 26 February 2025 UN Human Rights Council/Marie Bambi Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, presents his latest report on the obligation to ensure accountability and justice in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. UN human rights chief Volker Türk issued a strong appeal on Wednesday for the fragile ceasefire…

New report flags severity of US funding cuts to global AIDS response

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home New report flags severity of US funding cuts to global AIDS response 26 February 2025 © UNICEF/Olivier Asselin In Côte d’Ivoire, a woman living with HIV holds three pills she takes daily as part of antiretroviral therapy. Shuttered clinics and health workers laid off around the world reflect the widespread, negative toll the United States funding freeze is taking on the global AIDS response…

HRC Press Conference

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home HRC Press Conference 26 February 2025 Press Conference Announcement Launch of the latest report by the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua. Jan-Michael Simon, Chair of the Group of Human Rights Experts on NicaraguaAriela Peralta Distefano, Member of the Group of Human Rights Experts on NicaraguaReed Brody, Member of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua

Director-General remarks at the Opening of the exhibition “The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Through the Eyes of Young People”

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Director-General remarks at the Opening of the exhibition “The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Through the Eyes of Young People” 26 February 2025 Tatiana Valovaya  Opening of the exhibition “The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Through the Eyes of Young People”Wednesday, 26 February 2025 at 1.00 p.m.3rd floor, Exhibition gallery, Palais des Nations Minister Locatelli [Italian Minister for Disabilities],Ambassador…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 25 February 2025 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rolando Gómez of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization. Update on the health situation in GazaDr. Rik Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said the WHO polio campaign in Gaza was currently…

‘We’re afraid to return home’: Uprooted again, Congolese civilians face hunger and more insecurity

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘We’re afraid to return home’: Uprooted again, Congolese civilians face hunger and more insecurity 25 February 2025 © WFP/Michael Castofas Timusifu is one of around 700,000 people who fled Goma. Around 700,000 people were forced to leave Goma, one of the biggest cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) when it fell in January to rebels, known as M23. With the conflict spreading,…

Success for polio campaign in Gaza while West Bank tensions continue

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Success for polio campaign in Gaza while West Bank tensions continue 25 February 2025 © UNICEF/Omar Al-Qattaa Two women cross the road in the center of Gaza City. (file) UN humanitarians reported on Tuesday that aid workers in Gaza supporting local health authorities have now managed to vaccinate nearly 550,000 children under 10 – nearly all those it aimed to reach…

Ukraine: Post-war reconstruction set to cost $524 billion

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Ukraine: Post-war reconstruction set to cost $524 billion 25 February 2025 © Relief Coordination Centre A building in Izyum, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine lies in ruins after being struck by a missile. The total cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine is estimated at $524 billion (€506 billion) over the next decade, according to a new study published on Tuesday.…

UN rights chief decries substantial rise in death penalty executions

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights chief decries substantial rise in death penalty executions 25 February 2025 Unsplash/Maria Oswalt A protest against the death penalty outside the Supreme Court in Washington DC in the United States. (file) International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN human rights chief Volker Türk decried a substantial…