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World Braille Day 2024

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search World Braille Day 2024 18 January 2024 The Mezzanine, Building E, Palais des Nations, Geneva. UNOG…

UN agency urges ‘all possible support’ for Sudanese civilians

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search UN agency urges ‘all possible support’ for Sudanese civilians 17 January 2024 © UNICEF/Adriana Zehbrauskas Women and girls collect water for their families at a camp for displaced persons in Sudan. The head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday appealed for the international community to provide an urgent boost in funding and commitment…

UN coordinator for Gaza visits Egypt to ‘expedite all areas’ of aid

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search UN coordinator for Gaza visits Egypt to ‘expedite all areas’ of aid 17 January 2024 UN Sigrid Kaag, the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, visits Al-Arish in Egypt about 40 kilometres from the Rafah border crossing with Gaza. The UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza visited Al-Arish, Egypt, on Wednesday in…

World News in Brief: Rights chief calls for calm in Comoros, DR Congo update, northern Ethiopia beset by ‘multiple crises’

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search World News in Brief: Rights chief calls for calm in Comoros, DR Congo update, northern Ethiopia beset by ‘multiple crises’ 17 January 2024 MONUSCO/Nazar Voloshyn MONUSCO helicopters fly over Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (file) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has appealed for restraint in the wake of protests and…

Gaza health system collapsing, as UN agencies renew ceasefire call

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search Gaza health system collapsing, as UN agencies renew ceasefire call 17 January 2024 © WHO Wounded people wait to be treated at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The World Health Organization (WHO) is continuing to do all it can to deliver critical medicines, supplies and fuel to Gaza hospitals, where the health system is collapsing, an agency official said on Wednesday…

Gaza crisis: Back two-State solution urges UN chief, ‘once and for all’

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search Gaza crisis: Back two-State solution urges UN chief, ‘once and for all’ 17 January 2024 © UNRWA/Ashraf Amra Palestinians flee northern Gaza. Unremitting conflict in Gaza has already sparked regional insecurity and is clear evidence that the international community needs to throw its weight behind a two-State solution in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to resolve…

PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 16 January 2024 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, a representative of the World Health Organization and a spokesperson of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. New Secretary-…

Committee on the Rights of the Child Concludes its Consideration of the Report of the Republic of the Congo

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search Committee on the Rights of the Child Concludes its Consideration of the Report of the Republic of the Congo 16 January 2024 Meeting Summaries  The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of the Republic of the Congo.Irène Marie Cécile Mboukou Kimbatsa, Minister of Social Affairs, Solidarity and Humanitarian Action…

Europe: 1.4 million lives saved thanks to COVID-19 vaccines

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search Europe: 1.4 million lives saved thanks to COVID-19 vaccines 16 January 2024 © WHO/Khaled Mostafa Une femme âgée reçoit sa troisième injection de rappel COVID-19 dans un centre de vaccination à Lisbonne, au Portugal. COVID-19 vaccines saved at least 1.4 million lives in Europe – “irrefutable” proof of the power of these inoculations, the regional head of the World…

Cholera cases soar globally; Malawi, Haiti deadliest outbreaks, WHO reports

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search Cholera cases soar globally; Malawi, Haiti deadliest outbreaks, WHO reports 16 January 2024 © UNICEF/Thoko Chikondi A health worker at a camp in southern Malawi, talks to displaced people about cholera prevention measures. The world enters 2024 with soaring cases of cholera globally, with over 667,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths last year, UN agencies have…