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Gaza: Clean water crisis adds to new displacement misery, say aid teams
12 August 2024
Amid further evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military in Gaza, UN humanitarians delivered a fresh warning on Monday over the dire sanitary emergency there and the urgent need for a mass polio vaccination campaign in the embattled enclave.
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Youth jobless rate falls to 15-year low, says UN labour agency
12 August 2024
The number of young people unemployed globally is at a 15-year low but countries in Asia, the Pacific region and Arab States - and women in particular - “are not seeing the benefits” of this post-COVID economic recovery, the UN labour agency said on Monday.
“Demographic trends, notably the African…
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Stories from the UN Archive: Tumbling for peace and development
11 August 2024
The UN has long recognised the power and universality of sport, from forging alliances with athletic organizations small and large around the world to lending support for the ongoing Paris Olympics and messages of peace.
The UN uses that universality to unite individuals and groups through…
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‘Protect civilians’ amid clashes in famine-stricken El Fasher, Sudan: UN chief
11 August 2024
Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep alarm at the evolving situation in El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, where fierce fighting in the famine-stricken area has been reported, his deputy spokesperson said late Sunday.
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First Person: Stitching together a future following deadly siege
11 August 2024
A woman who fled her home following a terrorist attack on a city on the Filipino island of Mindanao in 2017 is pinning her future on sewing and selling bags as part of a close-knit women’s cooperative, supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP…
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‘Another day of horror’: UN rights office condemns Israeli strikes at Gazan school
10 August 2024
The UN Human Rights Office condemned on Saturday the increasing frequency of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) strikes on schools, where hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians have sought shelter, with the latest attacks killing dozens at a Gaza City school.
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Witness to the Nakba: A Palestinian teacher is still waiting for a solution 76 years after becoming a refugee in Lebanon
10 August 2024
Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Said remembers his birthplace and the ancestors who came before him. Sevent six years ago, the Palestinian refugee, who has devoted his life to teaching children, was forcibly displaced from his home village of Al-Birwa approximately 9 km northeast of Acre. It is well-known as the birthplace of the renowned poet…
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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING
09 August 2024
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the World Food Programme. El Niño drought emergency in southern AfricaValerie Guarnieri, Assistant…
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Indigenous Day celebrates ‘guardians of the environment’
09 August 2024
As countries celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Friday, the theme of " Protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact” is in the spotlight at the United Nations.
Indigenous Peoples represent around six per cent of…
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UN rights chief ‘shocked and appalled’ by Israeli minister’s comment on starving Gazans to death
09 August 2024
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, called on Friday for the Israeli authorities to monitor senior officials whose public statements on the Gaza conflict may promote war crimes.
OHCHR spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker…
