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Genocide prevention adviser warns of global threat posed by hate speech

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Genocide prevention adviser warns of global threat posed by hate speech 14 June 2024 UNICEF/Brown In this 2017 photograph, Rohingya refugees driven by brutal violence from their homes in Myanmar arrive in camps in Bangladesh. The UN’s top genocide prevention official warned on Friday that hate speech remains a significant threat to global peace and security, often targeting society’s most…

War in Ukraine should not be ‘new normal’, warns top humanitarian there

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home War in Ukraine should not be ‘new normal’, warns top humanitarian there 14 June 2024 © ЮНФПА в Украине / И.Херскин Харьков после обстрела. Фото из архива A surge of attacks by Russian forces on the Kharkiv area of Ukraine is causing significant civilian casualties, as well as the destruction of homes and crucial infrastructure, the top UN official in Ukraine said today, in a plea not to “…

‘Better late than never’: Gazans react to Security Council ceasefire resolution

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Better late than never’: Gazans react to Security Council ceasefire resolution 14 June 2024 UN News A child follows/watches the recovering of bodies from under the rubble of a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. A cautious welcome was given by civilians in Gaza to this week’s Security Council resolution endorsing a ceasefire for hostages…

Climate change fuels tensions in Nigeria

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Climate change fuels tensions in Nigeria 14 June 2024 IOM/Jorge Galindo Climate change impacts continue to fuel tensions and drive displacement in Nigeria. Despite its huge potential, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, continues to grapple with a host of challenges which are impacting people’s lives and triggering conflict over key resources, a senior UN official in the country said on…

Global efforts to end female genital mutilation undermined by ‘vacation cutting’

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Global efforts to end female genital mutilation undermined by ‘vacation cutting’ 14 June 2024 © UNICEF/Mulugeta Ayene The authorities in Ethiopia stopped the circumcision of a young girl after they were alerted. The global fight to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM) is being undermined by the movement of some girls across national borders and beyond to undergo the procedure, the UN…

Conflict and lawlessness hamper food aid delivery in Gaza: WFP

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Conflict and lawlessness hamper food aid delivery in Gaza: WFP 14 June 2024 © UNRWA Children collect water in the Gaza Strip. Escalating fighting in the south and centre of Gaza makes it near-impossible for humanitarians to deliver desperately needed food aid, the Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Carl Skau, said on Friday at the end of a two-day mission to the…

New Permanent Representative of the Federated States of Micronesia Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of the Federated States of Micronesia Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 13 June 2024 Presentation of Credentials Akillino Harris Susaia, the new Permanent Representative of the Federated States of Micronesia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the…

UN reports ‘shocking’ rise in violations against children in conflict in 2023

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN reports ‘shocking’ rise in violations against children in conflict in 2023 13 June 2024 © UNICEF/Tess Ingram A young boy recovers in hospital in Gaza after the shelter he was living in with his family was bombed. Violence against children caught in armed conflict reached “extreme levels” last year, with a “shocking” 21 per cent increase in extreme violations, UN Secretary-General António…

Gaza: 8,000 children diagnosed with malnutrition amid ongoing shelling

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: 8,000 children diagnosed with malnutrition amid ongoing shelling 13 June 2024 © UNRWA According to UNICEF, only two of three specialized nutrition stabilization centres for seriously undernourished youngsters in Gaza still open. Heavy shelling reported in the so-called safe zone of Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza on Thursday came despite the ongoing international push for a ceasefire and as…

Stories from the UN Archive: Nigerian Nobel Laureate condemns online hate

10 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: Nigerian Nobel Laureate condemns online hate 13 June 2024 UN Photo/Mark Garten Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet and Nobel Laureate, reads an original poem written for children at the General Assembly's high-level meeting marking the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2019. (file) This #ThrowbackThursday, when the…