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More climate funding needed to ‘transition from rhetoric to decisive action’
29 May 2024
Climate action taken so far to help fund efforts in cash-strapped small island developing States (SIDS) “does not measure up to what has been said” in the wake of COP28 in Dubai last year.
That was the strong message from President of the Western Pacific nation of Palau Surangel Whipps…
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Stories from the UN Archive: Keeping the peace over decades
29 May 2024
UN Member States have been deploying “Blue Helmets” (or peacekeepers) since 1948, so on the occasion of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, marked annually on 29 May, we’re spotlighting operations over the decades, from monitoring buffer zones in Asia to escorting aid trucks into Israeli exclaves in the Middle East…
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UNICEF reports surge in violence against children in Africa’s central Sahel
29 May 2024
Violence against children in the central Sahel region of Africa surged dramatically in the last quarter of 2023, skyrocketing by 70 per cent over the previous three months, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Wednesday.
The agency revealed that in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger,…
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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING
28 May 2024
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the International Organization for Migration, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/World Weather…
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World News in Brief: Menstrual hygiene day, Guterres condemns DPRK missile launch, conflict in Sudan
28 May 2024
Today marks Menstrual Hygiene Day and a joint report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) highlights the lack of access millions of schoolgirls have to products, services and appropriate facilities.
Specifically, the report…
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Guterres ‘heartbroken’ by images of deadly strikes on Rafah camp
28 May 2024
As fighting continues in Gaza, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday that he was “heartbroken” by images of people killed and injured in airstrikes on Sunday that hit tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah.
Mr. Guterres repeated his longstanding call for a ceasefire…
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UN supports response as Cyclone Remal batters communities in Bangladesh, India
28 May 2024
UN teams are working alongside authorities and relief partners to assist communities battered by a tropical cyclone that lashed coastal parts of southern Bangladesh and eastern India.
At least 16 people are reported to have been killed as the region was hit by Cyclone Remal on Sunday…
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Gender equality, youth aspirations keys to sustainable peace, Security Council hears
28 May 2024
Gender equality and the aspirations of young people are crucial for ensuring sustainable peace and security, the UN’s top political and peacebuilding official told the Security Council on Tuesday.
Addressing ambassadors at the Council’s open debate on the role of women and youth…
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Indian peacekeeper is UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year
28 May 2024
An Indian peacekeeper deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), who helped establish networks for local people to voice their security and humanitarian concerns, is the winner of the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award, announced on Tuesday.
Major Radhika…
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UN hub reaches remote Pacific islanders: A UN Resident Coordinator blog
28 May 2024
The communities of thousands of tiny Pacific islands are the frontline gamechangers tackling the climate crisis, and a hub based in Micronesia now hosts more than a dozen UN agencies that together are helping address some of their most pressing needs as they battle existential threats like rising sea levels…
