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World News in Brief: Burkina Faso, refugees and climate change, Afghan women deserve seat in Doha: CEDAW
28 June 2024
Resources are desperately needed to ramp up aid supplies for Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, which is staring at an “unprecedented humanitarian crisis”, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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Going back into ‘hell’: An aid worker’s journey through shattered Gaza
28 June 2024
Over and above the difficulty of actually getting into Gaza, aid teams now face the crushing realization that with a shortage of fuel and dwindling supplies, there is a limit to what they can do to help all those in need, UN aid worker Louise Wateridge told UN News on Friday.
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AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Hears that States Need to Expand International Solidarity Measures to Diminish Inequality and Marginalisation, and that the Backlash against Women’s and Girls’ Human Rights Is Intensifying
27 June 2024
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The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, and started an interactive…
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Famine risk is real for 14 areas of Sudan amid ongoing fighting
27 June 2024
The risk of widespread famine in Sudan caused by war there was confirmed on Thursday by leading hunger experts who warned that the country faces “the worst levels of acute food insecurity ever recorded”, with no less than 14 areas at the highest level of risk.
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Stories from the UN Archive: How the UN was founded amid the ashes of war
27 June 2024
Take a front seat to how it all began: the birth of the United Nations amid the ashes of the Second World War that devastated continents and communities around the world.
We are taking you back to the summer of 1945, when leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree upon an…
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World News in Brief: Trafficking victims need more support, deadly risks of inactivity, executions in Iraq
27 June 2024
Victims of people-trafficking need more countries to respect international law and protect them, but thousands continue to die along land and sea routes every year, a top independent human rights expert said on Thursday.
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Global leaders address security and peacekeeping challenges at UN Police summit
27 June 2024
Police chiefs and government leaders convened at UN Headquarters on Thursday for the opening session of UNCOPS 2024.
The summit, themed Advancing our Common Security: UN Policing for a New Era, began with a video highlighting the UN Police’s (UNPOL) mission to promote…
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UN mission boosts presence in Central African Republic’s conflict-stricken southeast
27 June 2024
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has expanded its presence in the country’s southeast to prevent further violence in areas heavily affected by conflict and systemic issues.
Briefing ambassadors at the Security Council on the situation in the…
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‘Fragility of peace’ depicted in giant new mural on UN tower in Vienna
27 June 2024
In a landmark art project for the Austrian capital Vienna, the UN building there has become a giant canvas representing the challenges of forging peace in a world that is still all too prone to conflict.
The artwork by Australian artist Fintan Magee is in support of the Sustainable Development…
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Road safety gets a boost with new UN fix for ‘pedal error’
27 June 2024
Have you ever been driving in your car and pressed the accelerator instead of the brake? It happens more than you might think and it’s a cause of serious accidents that UN road safety experts have found a fix to, they announced on Thursday.
Together with vehicle manufacturers and governments, the…
