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Gaza: ‘Systematic dismantling of healthcare must end’ says WHO

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: ‘Systematic dismantling of healthcare must end’ says WHO 06 April 2024 UN News Footage of destruction of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, following the end of the latest Israeli siege. The World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated that hospitals must be respected and protected; they must not be used as battlefields. With the largest hospital in Gaza largely destroyed and out of action,…

First Person: The genocide survivor protected by a mass murderer

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: The genocide survivor protected by a mass murderer 06 April 2024 © Eric Eugene Murangwa A girls team at the Play2Remember tournament at the Togetherness Cooperative Centre in Kigali, Rwanda. When the Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda began in April 1994 Eric Eugene Murangwa was a footballer at one of the country’s top clubs. Although he is a Tutsi, he was protected by a…

Mother makes 200km emergency trip across rural Madagascar to save baby

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Mother makes 200km emergency trip across rural Madagascar to save baby 06 April 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson A premature baby is fed in a hospital incubator. A young mother in Madagascar has been describing how she was forced to make a 200km emergency journey on challenging rural roads to a specialist regional hospital after she experienced difficulties giving birth at home…

Human Rights Council Concludes Fifty-Fifth Regular Session after Adopting 32 Resolutions and Two Decisions

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Human Rights Council Concludes Fifty-Fifth Regular Session after Adopting 32 Resolutions and Two Decisions 05 April 2024 Meeting Summaries Council Urgently Establishes Group of Three Independent Experts on the Situation of Human Rights in Belarus, Extends 11 Country and Four Thematic Mandates  The Human Rights Council today concluded its fifty-fifth regular session after adopting 32 resolutions, and…

Human Rights Council Adopts Decision on Remote Participation Modalities for Hybrid Meetings, Appoints 14 Special Procedure Mandate Holders, and Concludes Fifty-Fifth Regular Session

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Human Rights Council Adopts Decision on Remote Participation Modalities for Hybrid Meetings, Appoints 14 Special Procedure Mandate Holders, and Concludes Fifty-Fifth Regular Session 05 April 2024 Meeting Summaries The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a decision on remote participation modalities for its hybrid meetings, appointed 14 Special Procedure mandate holders, adopted the session’s report…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 05 April 2024 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Food and Agriculture Organization.First aid in months reaches DarfurLeni Kinzli, for the World Food…

Gaza: Human Rights Council resolution urges arms embargo on Israel

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Human Rights Council resolution urges arms embargo on Israel 05 April 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. The UN’s top human rights body adopted a resolution on Friday condemning the alleged “use of starvation of civilians as a method of…

Sudan: Aid lifeline reaches Darfur region in bid to avert ‘hunger catastrophe’

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: Aid lifeline reaches Darfur region in bid to avert ‘hunger catastrophe’ 05 April 2024 © UNICEF/Antony Spalton Displaced people in Darfur camp collecting water. (file) Two aid convoys carrying lifesaving supplies have reached Sudan’s Darfurs for the first time in months, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, as humanitarians try to avert a “hunger catastrophe”…

Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change in military tactics

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change in military tactics 05 April 2024 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the media outside the Security Council on the situation in Gaza. Israel must make meaningful changes in the way it is fighting in Gaza to avoid civilian casualties while also undergoing “a true paradigm…

World News in Brief: Security Council condemns DR Congo attacks, cholera testing breakthrough, ‘my health, my right’ campaign

1 year ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Security Council condemns DR Congo attacks, cholera testing breakthrough, ‘my health, my right’ campaign 05 April 2024 © UNHCR/Blaise Sanyila One of the many sites for internally displaced people that have sprung up in North Kivu where 1.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes since March 2022. The UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned the latest…