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From The Field: Story of an aid worker trying to survive in Gaza
28 January 2024
A humanitarian worker in Gaza has been documenting her struggles after being displaced on numerous occasions as she and her family flee ongoing bombardments by Israeli forces.
Tents for displaced people in southern GazaWhen war began on 7 October, life changed…
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UN chief urges countries to reverse UNRWA funding suspension
28 January 2024
Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed to the countries that suspended funding to the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees (UNRWA) to reconsider their decisions, to ensure continuity of its vital humanitarian operations.
In a statement on Sunday, the UN chief said that the Organization is…
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Remembering Holocaust victims, Guterres urges a stand against division
27 January 2024
In remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a call for global unity against the rise of hate and division, cautioning that intolerance is proliferating rapidly and that no society is exempt from its reach.
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Lifesaving programmes in peril, UNRWA chief urges countries to reconsider funding suspension
27 January 2024
The head of the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees (UNRWA) said on Saturday that some countries’ decisions to halt funding will jeopardize its lifesaving programmes, urging them to reconsider.
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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
26 January 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 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Health Organization. …
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UN world court calls for prevention of genocidal acts in Gaza
26 January 2024
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday declared that Palestinians had a right to be protected from acts of genocide, calling on Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent such actions and allow the entry of desperately needed humanitarian aid into the war-shattered enclave…
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Gaza: UN rights office condemns ‘chaotic’ Israeli mass evacuation orders
26 January 2024
Mass evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military to the people of Gaza continue to push them “into ever smaller areas” amid “ever-intensifying violence” in likely violation of international humanitarian law, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday.
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US: Türk voices regret over first ever execution by nitrogen suffocation
26 January 2024
The UN human rights chief has expressed deep regret over the execution of a prisoner in the United States on Thursday night through the country’s first ever use of nitrogen asphyxiation as a method of implementing the death penalty.
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UNRWA to investigate allegations ‘several’ staffers played role in 7 October attacks
26 January 2024
Secretary-General António Guterres has asked the head of the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, to “swiftly” investigate “extremely serious allegations” that several agency staffers were involved in the 7 October terror attacks in southern Israel.
Mr. Guterres has…
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World News in Brief: UNHCR chief on frontlines in Ukraine, 10 million displaced in Sudan, instability grows in Lebanon
26 January 2024
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has warned of dramatic humanitarian suffering throughout Ukraine and worsening conditions as war-affected civilians suffer through the harsh winter.
Wrapping up a week-long visit to the…
