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World News in Brief: Haiti aid response, strikes across Lebanon’s Blue Line, UNEP welcomes Iran prisoner release, healthcare for the displaced
08 April 2024
UN humanitarians on Monday made clear the emergency response in Haiti’s capital continues despite ongoing insecurity caused by months of gang-led violence there.
Since early March, the World Food Programme (WFP)…
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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Opens its One Hundred and Twelfth Session in Geneva
08 April 2024
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The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its one hundred and twelfth session, during which it will review anti-discrimination efforts by Albania, Mexico, Qatar, Republic of Moldova and San Marino. The Committee heard four newly elected members…
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Ecuador-Mexico: ‘Cardinal principle’ of diplomatic inviolability must be upheld says UN chief
07 April 2024
The decision by Ecuador to forcibly enter the Mexican Embassy on Saturday and arrest a former vice president of the Andean country on corruption charges represents a breach of international law, the UN Secretary-General has said.
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Hope grows for UN mission to ‘flood’ Gaza with food, despite fears of imminent Rafah invasion
07 April 2024
The UN’s overriding mission in Gaza to ‘flood the place with food’ and avert famine has moved forward this week thanks to Israel’s public pledge to increase the flow of aid, despite signs on Sunday that the feared invasion of Rafah is imminent.
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Getting children back to school in deadly gang-ravaged Haiti
07 April 2024
Against the backdrop of a humanitarian crisis and gang violence in Haiti, UN agencies are warning that children are suffering not just from a lack of schooling but also through witnessing violence.
Students in the capital Port-au-Prince have missed hundreds of hours of class time over the past year…
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Planning the post-war reconstruction and recovery of Gaza
06 April 2024
The destruction wrought across the Gaza Strip by Israel in the six months since the massacre of Israeli and other citizens by Hamas on 7 October 2023 makes for grim reading – over 33,000 people killed and, according to the World Bank, over one million Palestinians are without homes, close to 90 per cent of health facilities have been damaged or wrecked and schools have been destroyed or turned into…
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First Person: The genocide survivor protected by a mass murderer
06 April 2024
When the Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda began in April 1994 Eric Eugene Murangwa was a footballer at one of the country’s top clubs. Although he is a Tutsi, he was protected by a member of the notorious Interahamwe, responsible for killing hundreds of thousands. Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the genocide, marked on 7 April, Mr. Murangwa shared his extraordinary story with UN News…
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Gaza: ‘Systematic dismantling of healthcare must end’ says WHO
06 April 2024
With the largest hospital in Gaza largely destroyed and out of action, access to healthcare has now become “totally inadequate” following six months of brutal fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday.
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Mother makes 200km emergency trip across rural Madagascar to save baby
06 April 2024
A young mother in Madagascar has been describing how she was forced to make a 200km emergency journey on challenging rural roads to a specialist regional hospital after she experienced difficulties giving birth at home.
“I thought I was going to lose my baby and die on the journey to…
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Human Rights Council Concludes Fifty-Fifth Regular Session after Adopting 32 Resolutions and Two Decisions
05 April 2024
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Council Urgently Establishes Group of Three Independent Experts on the Situation of Human Rights in Belarus, Extends 11 Country and Four Thematic Mandates The Human Rights Council today concluded its fifty-fifth regular session after adopting 32 resolutions, and…
