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End ‘collective amnesia’ over COVID-19, says UN health agency WHO

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home End ‘collective amnesia’ over COVID-19, says UN health agency WHO 09 October 2024 © WHO/Khaled Mostafa Une femme âgée reçoit sa troisième injection de rappel COVID-19 dans un centre de vaccination à Lisbonne, au Portugal. Our “collective amnesia” about how bad the COVID-19 pandemic was should not prevent us from protecting ourselves and our loved ones from the ongoing spread of respiratory…

‘No end to hell’ in northern Gaza, warns UN aid agency chief

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘No end to hell’ in northern Gaza, warns UN aid agency chief 09 October 2024 © UNOCHA Northern Gaza resident Ahmed Abu Aita gestures towards his house in northern Gaza which has been reduced to rubble. The prospect of all-out war in Lebanon appeared undiminished on Wednesday as the head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that there was “no end to hell” in northern Gaza,…

Director-General's remarks at the Opening of the high-level plenary of the 2024 GESDA Summit "The Great Scientific Acceleration"

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Director-General's remarks at the Opening of the high-level plenary of the 2024 GESDA Summit "The Great Scientific Acceleration" 09 October 2024 Tatiana Valovaya  Opening of the high-level plenary of the 2024 GESDA Summit "The Great Scientific Acceleration"Wednesday, 9 October 2024, at 1.00 p.m.Auditorium A, CERN Science Gateway Excellencies,Ladies and Gentlemen,It is a great honour to join you today at the 2024 GESDA Summit convened under the theme “…

Artificial intelligence: rooting out bias and stereotypes

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Artificial intelligence: rooting out bias and stereotypes 08 October 2024 UN Women/Geno Ochieng Girls attend a robotics bootcamp in Rwanda. As online tools using various forms of artificial intelligence become increasingly common, calls are growing for more action to ensure that they do not create or perpetuate stereotypes and gender bias…

Explainer: How UN peacekeepers meet the challenge of escalating conflict in Lebanon

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Explainer: How UN peacekeepers meet the challenge of escalating conflict in Lebanon 08 October 2024 © UNIFIL/Pasqual Gorriz UNIFIL peacekeepers patrol between Ras Naqoura and Labounieh along the Blue Line in southwestern Lebanon. (file) The UN peacekeeping mission UNIFIL has been operating along the “Blue Line” which separates Lebanon and Israel since the 1970s, and its mandate was just…

Fears grow that Lebanon may become another Gaza

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Fears grow that Lebanon may become another Gaza 08 October 2024 © UNICEF/Dar al Mussawir/Ramzi Haidar A woman walks past a destroyed building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese capital. UN humanitarians in Lebanon on Tuesday described the massive challenge of trying to reach some 1.2 million people who have fled heavy Israeli bombardment and evacuation orders, driven by the fear…

‘Indescribable’ pain following year of war in Gaza

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Indescribable’ pain following year of war in Gaza 08 October 2024 © UNOCHA/Themba Linden A woman cleans the floor of a destroyed building in Gaza. A Palestinian man living in a refugee camp in northern Gaza has talked of the ‘indescribable’ pain he has experienced over the past year as the conflict in the beleaguered enclave continues…

Israel: New law blocking UNRWA ‘would be a catastrophe’, Guterres warns

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Israel: New law blocking UNRWA ‘would be a catastrophe’, Guterres warns 08 October 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the situation in the Middle East. Two bills before the Israeli parliament could put a halt to the lifesaving operations of UN Palestine relief agency, UNRWA, which has been indispensable and irreplaceable “more than ever” over…

‘Families ran for their lives’: Syria receives 250,000 refugees fleeing Lebanon

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Families ran for their lives’: Syria receives 250,000 refugees fleeing Lebanon 08 October 2024 © UNHCR/Houssam Hariri Families flee into Syria following airstrikes in Lebanon. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has concluded an urgent visit to Syria, highlighting the plight of 250,000 people who have crossed into the country fleeing airstrikes in Lebanon. …

‘Alarming’ situation in Great Lakes Region of DR Congo

6 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Alarming’ situation in Great Lakes Region of DR Congo 08 October 2024 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Great Lakes region. The situation in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, in particular the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has remained “alarming” amid ongoing…