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Haiti’s health system pushed to breaking point: UNICEF

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti’s health system pushed to breaking point: UNICEF 22 May 2024 © UNICEF/Georges Harry Rouzier A child is treated for malnutrition at a mobile health clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti’s health system is now “on the verge of collapse” UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Haiti Bruno Maes warned on Wednesday, amidst an alarming decrease in the number of hospitals still…

Gaza: Rafah aid situation increasingly desperate, UN teams warn

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Rafah aid situation increasingly desperate, UN teams warn 22 May 2024 © UNICEF/Media Clinic Children sleep in the open in al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip. Hostilities across Gaza reportedly continued on Wednesday, fuelling already alarming aid access problems and dire food insecurity as the main entrance routes for relief convoys remained closed or too dangerous to access…

Droughts and floods threaten ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ across southern Africa

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Droughts and floods threaten ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ across southern Africa 22 May 2024 © UNICEF/Karin Schermbrucker Drought conditions in Zambia have led to crop failure which has impacted people's health. Droughts and floods in southern Africa stemming from El Niño have left millions of people food insecure, warns World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain during a…

Stories from the UN Archive: Magic suitcases for 1960s midwives

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: Magic suitcases for 1960s midwives 22 May 2024 UN Photo In the city of Matadi in the Republic of the Congo in 1960, a 260-bed general hospital is staffed by a Danish medical unit, which includes four doctors, two nurses and one midwife. (file) Can a magic suitcase save lives…

Director-General's remarks on the occasion of International Biodiversity Day 2024

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Director-General's remarks on the occasion of International Biodiversity Day 2024 22 May 2024 Tatiana Valovaya International Biodiversity Day Celebration 2024 Wednesday, 22 May 2024 at 10.00 a.m. Room III, Palais des Nations Excellencies,Ladies and gentlemen,I would like to sincerely thank the Geneva Environment Network and the Convention on Biological Diversity for bringing us together to celebrate the Biodiversity Day 2024, and I am particularly pleased…

Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Commend Kuwait for Efforts to Advance Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment, Raise Questions on the Practice of “Honour” Killings and the Nationality Law

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Commend Kuwait for Efforts to Advance Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment, Raise Questions on the Practice of “Honour” Killings and the Nationality Law 21 May 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its consideration of the sixth periodic report of Kuwait with Committee Experts…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 21 May 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 United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Trade and Development. Situation in UkraineDr. Jarno Habicht, World Health…

INTERVIEW: Developing countries risk missing out on net-zero benefits, but fairer future is possible

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home INTERVIEW: Developing countries risk missing out on net-zero benefits, but fairer future is possible 21 May 2024 UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi A boy mines for copper mine in the town of Kipushi in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Inflation fears are subsiding, the “net-zero transition” to a clean economy could spell good news with the right policies in place and we are still dealing…

Gaza: WHO chief calls for end to latest hospital siege

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: WHO chief calls for end to latest hospital siege 21 May 2024 © WHO WHO delivers essential medical supplies during a UN mission to Al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza. As bombardments by the Israeli military reportedly continued overnight across Gaza, along with ground incursions and heavy fighting, the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued an alert on Tuesday for…

Accelerating extinction rate triggers domino effect of biodiversity loss

11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Accelerating extinction rate triggers domino effect of biodiversity loss 21 May 2024 © Wikimedia/Marty Aligata Gus, the oldest known gopher tortoise, lives at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Canada. While nearly one million species are currently at risk of extinction, the United Nations University (UNU) in Bonn is drawing attention to “co-extinctions”: the chain reaction…