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UN officials repeat calls for peace as Gaza polio vaccinations gets underway
01 September 2024
The first phase of a UN-led polio vaccination campaign has begun in the middle areas of Gaza. The operation aims to inoculate 600,000 children in the coming days.
Hundreds of Gazan families have been queueing to await the turn of their child to receive a polio vaccination since…
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Stories from the UN Archive: 1960s roots of ‘no justice, no peace’
31 August 2024
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, visited UN Headquarters in the 1960s to protest the Viet Nam conflict, the civil rights leader likened the anti-war movement to the struggle for equality for Black people in the United States, declaring then what has today become a slogan in the country’s continuing battle against racism…
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‘Giving help and giving hope’, an aerial lifeline to the world’s most isolated
31 August 2024
A humanitarian air service, which has been described by the World Food Programme chief as “giving help and giving hope” to the world’s most remote and disadvantaged communities, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year.
The WFP’s Executive Director Cindy McCain said the UN…
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Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Praise Mexico’s Progress in Decreasing Pregnancy in Girls, Ask about Measures to Protect Children from Violence, Organised Crime and Child Marriages
30 August 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined sixth and seventh periodic report of Mexico, with Committee Experts praising the State’s progress…
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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING
30 August 2024
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Jens Laerke, Deputy Spokesperson of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the International Labour Organization.Health situation in GazaDr. Richard Peeperkorn…
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WMO Press Conference
30 August 2024
Press Conference Announcement
Annual WMO Air Quality and Climate Bulletin
Embargoed until 0001 GMT 6 September for International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
Lorenzo Labrador, scientific officer, WMO
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Kyiv hospital struggles to care for patients amid air strikes
30 August 2024
Oksana, who is 26 weeks pregnant, described a harrowing scene in a Kyiv hospital in Ukraine during air raids, with staff scrambling to help patients and newborns into shelters.
“When the alarm went off, we were all rushed into the shelter,” she said. “Even the tiniest babies from the neonatal…
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Afghanistan: UN will ‘continue to engage’ with Taliban, following threat to withdraw cooperation
30 August 2024
The United Nations will continue engaging with all stakeholders in Afghanistan, advocating for human rights and equality, the global body’s Spokesperson said on Friday, amid the Taliban’s reported rejection of criticism by UN officials of a strict morality law.…
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Sudan: ‘Dire consequences for survivors’ lacking medical and trauma services
30 August 2024
The devastating lack of adequate care for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Sudan, including sexual and reproductive healthcare and psychosocial care, has had “dire” repercussions, independent UN experts said on Friday.
“The lack of care, stigma, and…
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Humanitarian pauses in Gaza pave way for polio vaccinations
30 August 2024
UN aid teams have reached a tentative agreement with parties involved in the war in Gaza for humanitarian pauses to allow 640,000 children to be vaccinated amid an outbreak of the virus, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
WHO Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories…
