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Global unemployment to increase in 2024, warns ILO report

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Global unemployment to increase in 2024, warns ILO report 10 January 2024 © ILO/Marcel Crozet Jobless workers wait for employment opportunities in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. Global unemployment is expected to rise this year, with growing inequality and stagnant productivity also a cause for concern on the economic horizon, the UN labour agency ILO said on Wednesday…

UPDATED: Aid relief arriving in Gaza but ‘too little, too late’, warns WHO

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home UPDATED: Aid relief arriving in Gaza but ‘too little, too late’, warns WHO 09 January 2024 © WHO A healthcare worker tends to wounded children in Gaza. With no let-up in fighting across Gaza, the UN health agency pleaded on Tuesday for better access across the enclave, where relief is arriving “too little...too late” to help civilians caught up in the ongoing conflict.…

World News in Brief: Time for climate justice urges UN chief, Ukraine war update, call for ‘free and fair’ elections

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Time for climate justice urges UN chief, Ukraine war update, call for ‘free and fair’ elections 09 January 2024 © UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin Children play on parched land in southern Pakistan. The European climate agency on Tuesday reported that record global heat last year showed an overall increase of 1.48°C above pre-industrial levels – just a fraction below the 1.5-degree…

General Assembly meets over Gaza veto by US in Security Council

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home General Assembly meets over Gaza veto by US in Security Council 09 January 2024 United Nations The UN General Assembly Emergency Special Session meets on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The immediate priority in Gaza must be saving civilian lives said the President of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, as Member States gathered to debate the use of the…

Gaza crisis: another hospital facing dire shortages, warns WHO

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza crisis: another hospital facing dire shortages, warns WHO 08 January 2024 © WHO People wounded in bombardments are treated at Al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City. On day 93 of the war in Gaza, amid reports of relentless and heavy Israeli bombardment, UN humanitarians issued new reports of “significant casualties, particularly among women and children” and pleaded for overwhelmed medical…

World News in Brief, Bangladesh democracy call, accountability for Israeli victims of sexual violence, plastic pollution in the Antarctic, powering Ukraine

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief, Bangladesh democracy call, accountability for Israeli victims of sexual violence, plastic pollution in the Antarctic, powering Ukraine 08 January 2024 © World Bank/KM Asad The Sodorghat port terminal in Dhaka, Bangladesh, The UN human rights chief on Monday called on the newly elected Government of Bangladesh to take steps to renew the country’s commitment to democracy…

Trans in Türkiye: The UN ‘breathed life back into my dreams’

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Trans in Türkiye: The UN ‘breathed life back into my dreams’ 06 January 2024 © IOM/Enver Mohammed Shiraz was referred to the migrant centre that provides comprehensive assistance to vulnerable individuals. Shiraz, a 23-year-old trans woman from Alexandria, Egypt, attempted suicide when she was not accepted by her family. Today, with support from the UN migration agency (IOM), she sees a…

Nearly 600 attacks on healthcare in Gaza and West Bank since war began: WHO

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Nearly 600 attacks on healthcare in Gaza and West Bank since war began: WHO 05 January 2024 © UNICEF/Abed Zaqout A mother cares for her daughter at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the south of Gaza. Hospitals and other vital medical infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank have been attacked nearly 600 times since war erupted in the enclave in response to the Hamas-led terror attack in…

World News in Brief: Gaza relief ‘an impossible mission’, COVID spreading fast again, food prices fall

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Gaza relief ‘an impossible mission’, COVID spreading fast again, food prices fall 05 January 2024 © UNICEF/Hafiz Al Asad A student hygiene ambassador demonstrates how to properly wash hands at a school in Makassar, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The UN’s relief chief on Friday warned that “Gaza has simply become uninhabitable” and demanded Israeli forces and…

Stories from the UN Archive: Stevie Wonder’s boost for World Braille Day

1 year 3 months ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: Stevie Wonder’s boost for World Braille Day 04 January 2024 UN Photo/JC McIlwaine “Someone being sighted doesn’t mean that they should be blind to those things in the world that we need to fix,” said Stevie Wonder. Music legend Stevie Wonder had a strong and powerful message marking the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with…