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Middle East crisis spirals amid mounting civilian deaths, aid blockade

4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Middle East crisis spirals amid mounting civilian deaths, aid blockade 21 March 2025 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Sigrid Kaag (on screen), UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process ad interim, briefs the Security Council. The Israel-Palestine conflict is descending further into violence, with mounting civilian casualties in the West Bank and a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza,…

‘The poison of racism continues to infect our world’, Guterres warns on International Day

4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘The poison of racism continues to infect our world’, Guterres warns on International Day 21 March 2025 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe The UN General Assembly meets to commemorate International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The United Nations commemorated the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday, calling on the global community to uphold its…

UNICEF condemns looting of lifesaving supplies for children in Sudan

4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UNICEF condemns looting of lifesaving supplies for children in Sudan 21 March 2025 © UNICEF/Ahmed Mohamdeen Elfatih The looting of critical supplies from a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, risks worsening the humanitarian crisis in the region. (file photo) The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday strongly condemned the looting of vital humanitarian supplies from Al Bashair Hospital in the…

WORLD WATER DAY: The ‘cold hard truth’

4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home WORLD WATER DAY: The ‘cold hard truth’ 21 March 2025 Climate Visuals Countdown/Turpin Samuel A fisher tries to prevent his net from being dragged down by an iceberg in the Greenland. Melting glaciers, climate crises and access to clean water are some of the messages emerging ahead of World Water Day and on the first ever World Day for Glaciers. UN News app users can follow our coverage here…

Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teams

4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teams 21 March 2025 © ЮНФПА Палестинские дети пробираются через завалы после авиаударов. Israel’s renewed bombing campaign and intensifying ground operation in Gaza are reversing gains achieved during the brief ceasefire, UN humanitarians inside the devastated enclave said on Friday…

Running to bomb shelters, nothing new for Ukraine’s schoolchildren

4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Running to bomb shelters, nothing new for Ukraine’s schoolchildren 21 March 2025 © UNICEF/Christina Pashkina A kindergarten at Chuhuiv, Ukraine, lies in ruins. Classes cut short by air raid sirens have become a routine part of school life for many Ukrainian youngsters in the three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, a new UN report published on Friday details…

Syria's humanitarian crisis: 16.5 million in need amid continuing conflict

4 weeks 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Syria's humanitarian crisis: 16.5 million in need amid continuing conflict 20 March 2025 © UNICEF/Khalil Ashawi A girl walks amid widespread destruction in Aleppo, Syria, left behind after 14 years of war. The legacy of the Syrian conflict, which saw the overthrow of the Assad regime in December last year, is that 16.5 million people are in dire need of assistance, making it one of the…

Gaza: ‘Bring them all home now’, freed hostage tells Security Council

4 weeks 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: ‘Bring them all home now’, freed hostage tells Security Council 20 March 2025 UN Photo/Evan Schneider Eli Sharabi, who was held captive by Hamas for nearly 500 days, addresses the Security Council. A senior UN political affairs official called for Israel and Hamas to restore the shattered ceasefire in Gaza on Thursday and release all remaining hostages, while one of those freed told…

Sudan: Civilians targeted as hostilities intensify in the capital

4 weeks 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: Civilians targeted as hostilities intensify in the capital 20 March 2025 © UNFPA/Karel Prinsloo Sudanese refugees at the Korsi camp in the Central African Republic. Dozens of civilians, including local humanitarian volunteers, have been killed by artillery shelling and aerial bombardment in the eastern part of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) reported on…

WHO gives clean bill of health to cities taking action on preventable diseases

4 weeks 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home WHO gives clean bill of health to cities taking action on preventable diseases 20 March 2025 Mtur/Jade Queiroz Fortaleza, Brazil. Three cities that share a healthy vision for their residents won UN World Health Organization awards on Thursday for their smoke-free parks, clean air initiatives and obesity-busting school lunch initiatives…