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Africa: Refugees and displaced face heightened threat from mpox outbreak

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Africa: Refugees and displaced face heightened threat from mpox outbreak 27 August 2024 © UNICEF/Jospin Benekire A one-month-old child receives treatment at the mpox isolation unit of the UNICEF-supported Kamanyola Hospital in South Kivu province, DR Congo. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday that the mpox outbreak could have devastating effects on refugees and displaced families…

Afghanistan: Condemnation for new Taliban ‘virtue and vice’ order targeting women

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Afghanistan: Condemnation for new Taliban ‘virtue and vice’ order targeting women 27 August 2024 OHCHR/UNAMA Women and girls, in particular, have seen rights and freedoms eroded since 2021. A new morality law enacted by the Taliban in Afghanistan, cements policies that “completely erase” women’s presence in public, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday, calling for it to be…

China: UN rights office reiterates need to review national security framework

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home China: UN rights office reiterates need to review national security framework 27 August 2024 © Unsplash/Grey Zhang 新疆，中国西北部的一个自治区。 China still has “many problematic laws and policies” regarding the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region two years after the UN human rights office, OHCHR, published a report on serious violations against the Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities, a…

In Gaza, evacuation orders threaten to uproot UN’s aid hub once again

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home In Gaza, evacuation orders threaten to uproot UN’s aid hub once again 27 August 2024 UN News Hospitals have not been spared from evacuation orders in Gaza, humanitarians say. The plight of Gaza’s people continues to worsen in the enclave where humanitarian operations are “ongoing where feasible” amid repeated evacuation orders from the Israeli military, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA,…

Guterres strongly condemns Burkina Faso terror attack; hundreds killed and injured

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres strongly condemns Burkina Faso terror attack; hundreds killed and injured 27 August 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. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the killing of around 200 people in the Burkinabe town…

UN upholds safety and efficacy of Gaza polio vaccine

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN upholds safety and efficacy of Gaza polio vaccine 27 August 2024 © UNICEF UNICEF is bringing 1.2 million doses of polio vaccine to Gaza. The United Nations has upheld the safety of the polio vaccine that will be administered to more than half a million Palestinian children during an inoculation campaign in Gaza. …

Flooding from Sudan dam collapse worsens humanitarian crisis

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Flooding from Sudan dam collapse worsens humanitarian crisis 27 August 2024 © UNICEF/Aymen Alfadil تأثر مئات الآلاف من الأشخاص في السودان بالأمطار الغزيرة والفيضانات المفاجئة منذ حزيران/يونيو الماضي. Around 20 villages in eastern Sudan have reportedly been “destroyed”, with 70 impacted overall, after floodwaters burst through a major dam, according to UN humanitarians – adding to the…

OFFICE OF THE UNSG’S ENVOY FOR TECHNOLOGY Press Conference

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home OFFICE OF THE UNSG’S ENVOY FOR TECHNOLOGY Press Conference 27 August 2024 Press Conference Announcement Global AI Governance Recommendations by the UN SG's High-level Advisory Body Carme Artigas, Co-Chair of the HLAB on AI and former Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, of SpainSeydina Moussa Ndiaye, Lecturer at Cheikh Hamidou Kane Digital University in Senegal

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

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of Canada Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 26 August 2024 Presentation of Credentials Peter MacDougall, the new Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to his appointment to…

Committee on the Rights of the Child Opens Ninety-Seventh Session and Signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on the Rights of the Child Opens Ninety-Seventh Session and Signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 26 August 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its ninety-seventh session, which is being held in Geneva from 26 August to 13 September, during which the Committee will review reports on the efforts of…