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Another month, another heat record broken: UN weather agency

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Another month, another heat record broken: UN weather agency 07 August 2024 © Unsplash/Timo Volz Temperatures have hit record highs across the world in 2024. Last month saw another extreme weather milestone with the world’s hottest day on recent record registered on 22 July – yet another indication of the extent to which greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are changing our…

WHO regional chief voices grave concern over Middle East escalation

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home WHO regional chief voices grave concern over Middle East escalation 07 August 2024 © UNRWA A family walks through an area where people are sheltering in the remains of a bombed building in Gaza. Recent developments in Gaza, the wider Middle East, and Sudan, have highlighted the complexities of emergencies in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) vast Eastern Mediterranean region, officials…

Zimbabwe faces worsening food crisis due to El Niño droughts

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Zimbabwe faces worsening food crisis due to El Niño droughts 07 August 2024 © WFP/Matteo Cosorich People wait for a distribution of food in Mazambara, Zimbabwe. A new report from the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) reveals that food insecurity levels in Zimbabwe are rapidly deteriorating after it was hit with historic droughts due to the El Niño weather pattern…

WHO chief convenes expert meeting on mpox spread

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home WHO chief convenes expert meeting on mpox spread 07 August 2024 © NIAID The mpox virus (orange) infects cells depicted in green. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called for an emergency meeting on mpox following its spread outside the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  In…

Sudan: Over a dozen more areas at risk of famine as fighting impedes aid

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: Over a dozen more areas at risk of famine as fighting impedes aid 07 August 2024 © UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal Fighting in and around Sudan's El Fasher has forced many families to flee in search of safety. With famine confirmed in the Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur, there are growing concerns that similar crises may be unfolding in other nearby camps, an official with…

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

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of Bangladesh Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 07 August 2024 Presentation of Credentials Tareq Md. Ariful Islam, the new Permanent Representative of Bangladesh 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…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 06 August 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 spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. COVID-19 updateDr. Maria Van…

UN rights office reports escalation in strikes on schools in Gaza

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights office reports escalation in strikes on schools in Gaza 06 August 2024 © WFP/Ali Jadallah Gazans gather at a site for displaced people that was struck in a bombardment. (May 2024) The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has expressed horror at the escalating pattern of Israeli Defence Force (IDF) strikes on schools in Gaza, which have killed at least 163 internally displaced…

UN chief warns of nuclear 'danger' as world remembers Hiroshima; urges elimination of weapons

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief warns of nuclear 'danger' as world remembers Hiroshima; urges elimination of weapons 06 August 2024 © Unsplash/Alessandro Stech The Peace Park in Hiroshima. The UN Secretary-General called for nuclear disarmament on Tuesday as the world marked 79 years since the bombing of Hiroshima, promising that the UN will “spare no effort to ensure the horrors of that day are never…

COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge

8 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge 06 August 2024 © WHO A woman is tested for COVID-19 (file) COVID-19 infections are surging worldwide - including at the Olympics - and are unlikely to decline anytime soon, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday. The…