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Explainer: What is famine?

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Explainer: What is famine? 18 March 2024 © WFP Women feed their children at a nutrition site in South Sudan. Amid growing global concerns over alarming hunger spikes in conflict-affected communities and talk of intensifying levels of food insecurity possibly leading to famine, we looked into how – and when – a famine is classified…

Guterres urges disarmament now as nuclear risk reaches ‘highest point in decades’

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres urges disarmament now as nuclear risk reaches ‘highest point in decades’ 18 March 2024 UN Photo/Evan Schneider The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres (centre right) attends a Security Council meeting on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Almost 80 years after the incineration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons still represent a clear and…

World News in Brief: Haiti aid delivery continues, South Sudan violence, pandemic treaty talks near end, Guterres on Myanmar crisis

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Haiti aid delivery continues, South Sudan violence, pandemic treaty talks near end, Guterres on Myanmar crisis 18 March 2024 © UNICEF/Herold Joseph In the heart of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, escalating violence has become a grim reality, leading to the mass displacement of women and children. Aid workers continue to deliver assistance to people in Haiti’s…

24 million Sudanese children facing ‘generational catastrophe’

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home 24 million Sudanese children facing ‘generational catastrophe’ 18 March 2024 © UNICEF/Ahmed Elfatih Mohamdee Children displaced by the fighting and insecurity in Sudan, sheltering in Sennar in the Blue Nile state. As the war in Sudan enters its second year next month, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on Monday warned of a staggering toll of the crisis on children, with an…

UN relief chief calls for overhaul in humanitarian assistance delivery

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN relief chief calls for overhaul in humanitarian assistance delivery 18 March 2024 © UNOCHA/Iramaku Vundru Wilfred Over 25 million people require humanitarian assistance in Sudan. The UN’s emergency relief chief on Monday outlined the need for a fundamental shift in how humanitarian assistance is delivered, advocating for greater understanding of the needs of crisis-affected populations…

Iran: Repression continues two years after nationwide protests

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Iran: Repression continues two years after nationwide protests 18 March 2024 UN Human Rights Council Photo/Henri Van der Veken Sara Hossain, Chair of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, presenting a report to the Human Rights Council Iranian security forces shot hundreds of people who took part in widespread protests sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini while she was in the…

Imminent famine in northern Gaza is ‘entirely man-made disaster’: Guterres

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Imminent famine in northern Gaza is ‘entirely man-made disaster’: Guterres 18 March 2024 © UNICEF/Abed Zagout A mother prepares a meal for her children outside their makeshift home in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. (file) Amid reports that the Israeli military stormed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday in search of Hamas fighters, UN humanitarians warned that new food…

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

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of Rwanda Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 18 March 2024 Presentation of Credentials James Ngango, the new Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Before his appointment as Permanent Representative,…

UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in DR Congo

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in DR Congo 17 March 2024 MONUSCO/Kevin N. Jordan MONUSCO peacekeepers on a trip to North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. (file) The UN chief on Saturday condemned an attack which saw eight peacekeepers from the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, wounded during clashes between the powerful M23…

First Person: Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before they are born

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before they are born 16 March 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson Nodely Lehilaly regularly attends positive masculinity group sessions in his village in southern Madagascar. Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, sometimes…