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Gaza: Children are starving amid persistent aid access obstacles, warn UN agencies

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Children are starving amid persistent aid access obstacles, warn UN agencies 31 May 2024 © WFP/Jaber Badwan A man carries a parcel of high energy biscuits that just entered through the humanitarian maritime corridor. Far too little aid is reaching people in Gaza to the extent that children are now starving, UN humanitarians said on Friday, in a renewed appeal to Israel…

UN humanitarian flight takes vital medical supplies to Haiti

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN humanitarian flight takes vital medical supplies to Haiti 31 May 2024 © WFP/UNHAS WFP cargo flight at Port-au-Prince airport with crucial medical supplies for those most in need in Haiti. On Thursday, a humanitarian flight operated by the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) flew from Panama to Haiti – specifically the Port-au-Prince airport – for the first time in three months, according…

UN human rights chief sounds alarm over rising violence in Burkina Faso

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN human rights chief sounds alarm over rising violence in Burkina Faso 31 May 2024 © UNICEF/Frank Dejongh There has been a sharp rise in attacks against civilians in Burkina Faso. Pictured here, slippers outside a communal space at a camp for displaced persons. The UN’s top human rights official on Friday voiced serious concern over the dramatic deterioration of the situation in Burkina…

Situation in southern Gaza ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Situation in southern Gaza ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP 31 May 2024 © WFP/Ali Jadallah Thousands of Gazan families are evacuating Rafah City after Israeli airstrikes. Aid corridors in southern Gaza must be fully opened to allow the entry of food, fuel and other desperately needed relief items, a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday…

Global AI summit tackles misinformation and deepfakes with a little ‘bot’ of help

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Global AI summit tackles misinformation and deepfakes with a little ‘bot’ of help 31 May 2024 Служба новостей ООН/A. Успенский Фрагмент экспозиции саммита «ИИ во благо». The thorny issue of how to protect the unwary from deepfakes was just one of the key issues in the spotlight at a UN conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) held in Geneva this week, where a staggering 25,000…

World News in Brief: Updates on worsening crises in Gaza, South Sudan, DR Congo

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Updates on worsening crises in Gaza, South Sudan, DR Congo 31 May 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba Children in Gaza collect cardboard to light fires for cooking. Continued hostilities and evacuation orders in Gaza have led to the closure of key humanitarian facilities in Rafah, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Friday…

Sudan: ‘Noose of war’ tightens on civilians in El Fasher, UN official warns

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: ‘Noose of war’ tightens on civilians in El Fasher, UN official warns 30 May 2024 © UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani A mother walks with her children to their shelter at an IDP camp in North Darfur.  The top UN aid official in Sudan warned on Thursday that “the noose of war is tightening its stranglehold” on civilians in El Fasher, expressing her profound distress at the dire humanitarian…

AI for Good Summit: Digital and technological divide is no longer acceptable

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home AI for Good Summit: Digital and technological divide is no longer acceptable 30 May 2024 UN News/Anton Uspensky ITU's annual AI for Good Global Summit 2024, Geneva. With robots greeting delegates at the entrance to the venue, the AI for Good Global Summit opened on Thursday in Geneva, bringing together thousands of participants from all sectors around the world to discuss the hopes and…

Guterres honours service and sacrifice of UN peacekeepers

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres honours service and sacrifice of UN peacekeepers 30 May 2024 UN Photo/Mark Garten Secretary-General António Guterres (left) attends the wreath laying ceremony in honour of fallen Peacekeepers at the Peacekeeping Memorial at UN Headquarters. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday paid tribute to all peacekeepers serving under the UN flag and those who have died…

UN refugee chief urges Security Council to ‘step up’ for millions displaced by war

10 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN refugee chief urges Security Council to ‘step up’ for millions displaced by war 30 May 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Security Council Hears Briefing by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday called on the Security Council to prevent millions more people from being displaced by war, violence and persecution…