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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…

UN envoy calls again for removal of restrictions on Afghan women

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN envoy calls again for removal of restrictions on Afghan women 06 March 2024 UNAMA/Fraidoon Poya A family runs across a dusty street in Herat, Afghanistan. (file) The UN envoy for Afghanistan on Wednesday repeated her call for the Taliban to reverse its numerous restrictions on the lives of women and girls in violation of their human rights, warning that the longer they remain in place,…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 05 March 2024 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the Human Rights Council.…