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‘They destroyed us’: North Gazans flee homes in search of food and shelter

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home ‘They destroyed us’: North Gazans flee homes in search of food and shelter 07 March 2024 © UNOCHA Whole neighborhoods have been erased in northern Gaza. Life is rapidly being choked out of northern Gaza. After enduring nearly five months of bombing, starvation, illness, pain and suffering, many of the last survivors have finally had enough, according to some of the displaced who have been…

In Dialogue with Chile, Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend Measures to Promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Rights, Raise Issues Concerning the Police’s Response to Social Unrest in 2019 and 2020, and Conscientious Objection

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home In Dialogue with Chile, Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend Measures to Promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Rights, Raise Issues Concerning the Police’s Response to Social Unrest in 2019 and 2020, and Conscientious Objection to Performing Abortions 06 March 2024 Meeting Summaries The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the seventh periodic report of Chile on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant…

Allow more aid into Gaza now, pleads UN health agency chief

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Allow more aid into Gaza now, pleads UN health agency chief 06 March 2024 © WFP/Mostafa Ghroz Hot meals distribution in Gaza Much more lifesaving humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza where one in six children is dangerously malnourished in the north of the war-torn enclave, UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday…

11 months into Sudan war, ‘world’s worst hunger crisis’ looms

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home 11 months into Sudan war, ‘world’s worst hunger crisis’ looms 06 March 2024 © UNHCR/Aristophane Ngargoune Sudanese refugees shelter under trees in villages of neighbouring Chad. (file) Nearly 11 months since rival generals declared war in Sudan, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday that the conflict risks triggering “the world’s worst hunger crisis…

Path to low-carbon construction is clear as mud

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Path to low-carbon construction is clear as mud 06 March 2024 © Sindhoor Pangal Sindhoor Pangal (center) worked with Masons Ink and a team of women masons to create her mud home. The use of building materials such as cement and steel create a massive carbon footprint, and the industry overall is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global CO2 emissions, mainly in terms of production and…

Earth’s ‘life support system’ is being destroyed by global business paradigm, UN expert warns

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Earth’s ‘life support system’ is being destroyed by global business paradigm, UN expert warns 06 March 2024 © UNEP/Duncan Moore There are hundreds of landfill dumpsites spread across Kenya with the largest being Dandora dumpsite in Nairobi. The UN independent expert on human rights and the environment on Wednesday called for an urgent and radical shift in how business and the global economy…

Haiti: UN officials say ‘we are running out of time’ amid escalating crises

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: UN officials say ‘we are running out of time’ amid escalating crises 06 March 2024 © UNICEF/Herold Joseph Thousands been driven from their homes in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. Amid a mass prison breakout, expanding gang violence and rising hunger, the UN human rights chief on Wednesday urged the international community to act “swiftly and decisively to prevent the Caribbean…

Gaza: ‘Children are dying from hunger’, says UN aid coordinator

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: ‘Children are dying from hunger’, says UN aid coordinator 06 March 2024 © UNRWA A 50 per cent reduction in aid entering war-torn Gaza in February has led to sharp increases in malnutrition, hunger and starvation. “Hunger has reached catastrophic levels,” Jamie McGoldrick, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told journalists at UN Headquarters on…

World News in Brief, deadliest year for migrants, Syria refugee support crisis, Shamima Begum appeal

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief, deadliest year for migrants, Syria refugee support crisis, Shamima Begum appeal 06 March 2024 © UNICEF/Christopher Herwig A young Syrian refugee in Jordan studies at a UNICEF-supported centre. The UN migration agency (IOM) announced on Wednesday that last year was the deadliest on record for migrants worldwide…

Stories from the UN Archive: UN General Assembly’s first female president

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: UN General Assembly’s first female president 06 March 2024 UN Photo Indian delegate Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (left) speaks with her counterpart from Pakistan, Begum Ikramullah, in the UN Security Council Chamber before the opening of a meeting on Kashmir in 1953. (file) In 1953, UN Member States elected India’s political dynamo Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as the…