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In battle for development ‘you can count on us’, Guterres tells Timor-Leste, marking 25 years of self-determination
30 August 2024
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told parliamentarians in Timor-Leste on Friday the world has much to learn from their inspirational struggle for self-rule, 25 years to the day since the historic referendum which paved the way for independence in 2002.…
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World News in Brief: Terror attacks in Pakistan and Burkina Faso, Yemen floods update, mass graves in Libya
30 August 2024
A UN independent human rights expert on Friday condemned recent terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, which resulted in approximately 200 deaths, and in Pakistan, where 28 civilians lost their lives.
Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Al-Qaeda-…
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UN provides emergency cash injection for global crisis hotspots
30 August 2024
The UN’s top relief official on Friday allocated $100 million from the Organization’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to bolster critically underfunded humanitarian operations in some of the world’s humanitarian hotspots.
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts in Yemen ($20…
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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 administrative…
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Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Congratulate Turkmenistan on Achievements in Child Rights, Raise Questions on Stateless Children and Military Schools
29 August 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its review of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Turkmenistan, with Committee Experts congratulating the State on all its achievements in child rights,…
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West Bank crisis: UN chief calls for immediate halt to Israeli strikes
29 August 2024
As the crisis in the West Bank continues to escalate alongside the ongoing war in Gaza, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an “immediate cessation” of Israeli military operations in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Mr. Guterres’s intervention late Wednesday comes amid…
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Security Council debates Gaza as WHO announces polio pauses for lifesaving vaccination campaign
29 August 2024
The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on the continuing crisis in Gaza and the occupied West Bank on Thursday. Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced agreement had been reached with Israel to allow a mass polio vaccination campaign to get underway through a series of humanitarian pauses beginning on Sunday. UN News app…
