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World News in Brief: UAE urged to free activists, mass school closures in Haiti, aid for Sudanese refugees in Libya
30 July 2024
The United Arab Emirates must immediately release 43 activists who have been sentenced to life imprisonment for terror offences, independent UN human rights experts said on Tuesday.
The defendants were part of the so-called “UAE 84” group who…
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Gazans need polio vaccines amid ‘deathly cycle’ of hunger, heat and disease, say UN aid agencies
30 July 2024
In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians on Tuesday repeated continuing international calls for a ceasefire to allow a mass vaccination campaign to get underway.
Almost 10 months of war and intense Israeli bombardment have shattered healthcare…
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UN rights office condemns forced evictions of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem
30 July 2024
The UN human rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory expressed concern on Tuesday over the forced evictions of over 80 Palestinian families in the Silwan area of occupied East Jerusalem.
These evictions are “facilitated by the unlawful application of discriminatory…
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Kazakhstan tightens laws to combat trafficking of newborns
30 July 2024
Babies are being sold for up to $4,500 in Kazakhstan, but the government is cracking down on traffickers with a new law adopted earlier this month.
To fight against trafficking newborns, the new legislation facilitates the criminal prosecution for such crimes as kidnapping, illegal deprivation of liberty…
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UN official describes Gaza situation as ‘absolutely catastrophic’ amid severe shortages
29 July 2024
The top UN humanitarian official for Gaza said on Monday that the situation in the war-ravaged enclave remains “absolutely catastrophic”, with Palestinian civilians enduring a “horrendous maelstrom of human misery.”
Recently returned from the Gaza Strip, Sigrid Kaag, the UN…
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Venezuela: Guterres calls for ‘complete transparency’ following disputed presidential election
29 July 2024
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has commended the people of Venezuela “for their determination to express their will peacefully through the ballot box,” his Spokesperson said on Monday.
Following hours of delays, incumbent Nicolás Maduro was formally…
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Gaza: Fresh evacuation orders compound misery for enclave’s displaced
29 July 2024
New forced displacements have continued in Gaza as regional tensions escalate after a deadly strike in the Syrian Golan Heights, where 12 youngsters were killed over the weekend, UN humanitarians have said.
Evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military have impacted …
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Healthcare in Sudan ‘hanging by a thread,’ warns UN agency
29 July 2024
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday strongly denounced the increasing attacks on healthcare facilities in Sudan, reporting over 20 such incidents in the last two months.
In one particularly appalling attack, a hospital was struck last Friday alongside residential areas and a livestock market…
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UN officials alarmed by civilian targeting amid renewed fighting in Myanmar
29 July 2024
Senior UN officials on Monday voiced alarm over the continued escalation in conflict in Myanmar, amid reports of direct targeting of civilians in aerial attacks, and the abduction and forced recruitment of children by armed forces.
Fierce fighting broke out in early July in eastern…
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Stories from the UN Archive: Pope Francis’s message to the world
29 July 2024
In 2015, His Holiness Pope Francis paid an historic visit to UN Headquarters, calling the United Nations “necessary”.
On the International Day of Friendship, marked annually on 30 July, we are looking back to the pontiff’s powerful speech in the General Assembly Hall when he suggested the UN could…
