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First Person: Water and electricity ‘will save us from famine’

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Water and electricity ‘will save us from famine’ 02 March 2024 © FAO Madagascar/Tojotiana Randrianoavy A solar hub in southern Madagascar uses 72 solar panels to generate around 25 kilowatts of electricity, enough to power new opportunities in the village of Fenoaivo. An initiative to rapidly develop villages in some of the most drought-prone and poorest rural areas of…

Committee on Enforced Disappearances Closes Twenty-Sixth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Cambodia, Burkina Faso and Honduras

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on Enforced Disappearances Closes Twenty-Sixth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Cambodia, Burkina Faso and Honduras 01 March 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon closed its twenty-sixth session after adopting its concluding observations on the periodic report of Cambodia, and on additional information submitted by Burkina Faso and Honduras.Juan Pablo Albán…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 01 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 United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Meteorological Organization, the Interparliamentary Union, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the Human Rights Council.UNHCR warns…

OHCHR Press Conference

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home OHCHR Press Conference 01 March 2024 Press Conference Announcement Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan (period September 2023 to January 2024) Richard Bennett, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concludes Seventy-Fifth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Mauritania, Romania and Sweden

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concludes Seventy-Fifth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Mauritania, Romania and Sweden 01 March 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its seventy-fifth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland,…

Gaza: Worst famine fears realised as 10th child reportedly ‘starves to death’

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Worst famine fears realised as 10th child reportedly ‘starves to death’ 01 March 2024 © UNICEF/Abed Zagout An 8-year-old child waits her turn to receive food in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Repeated warnings from humanitarians over desperate food insecurity and imminent famine in Gaza came into focus on Friday amid reports from the enclave’s authorities that a tenth child had…

UNHCR assists thousands fleeing armed group violence in northern Mozambique

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UNHCR assists thousands fleeing armed group violence in northern Mozambique 01 March 2024 © UNHCR Mozambique UNHCR staff carry out a needs assessment with some of those arriving to Namapa, in Nampula province, after fleeing recent attacks by non-state armed groups in Cabo Delgado. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has voiced deep concern over the escalating humanitarian crisis in the restive…

World News in Brief: Another month of extreme heat, Sudan exodus continues into Chad, Zero Discrimination Day

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Another month of extreme heat, Sudan exodus continues into Chad, Zero Discrimination Day 01 March 2024 © UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin Children play on parched land in southern Pakistan. February saw more extreme heat and unusually high temperatures in both hemispheres, the UN weather agency (WMO) said on Friday…

Myanmar: Unbearable levels of suffering and cruelty

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Myanmar: Unbearable levels of suffering and cruelty 01 March 2024 © UNICEF/Patrick Brown Rohingya refugees arrive by boat from Myanmar on the Bay of Bengal to Teknaf in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh. (file) The crisis in Myanmar is a “never-ending nightmare” for the country’s people happening far away from the international spotlight, UN rights chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights…

Student gastronomes plan recipe for Madagascar’s future

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Student gastronomes plan recipe for Madagascar’s future 01 March 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson Pupils at the Beabo Primary School in Ambovombe compete in a culinary competition aimed at improving nutrition. As the world celebrates the Africa Day of School Feeding, school children in southern Madagascar are learning how to cook nutritious meals which ultimately may contribute to the longer-…