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WHO Press Conference
21 December 2023
Press Conference Announcement
Update on health situation in Gaza and on latest WHO visits to hospitals
Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative on the occupied Palestinian territory
Sean Casey, WHO Emergency Medical Teams coordinator
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Afghanistan: Taliban’s return to ‘international norms’ is non-negotiable says UN mission chief
20 December 2023
Lack of progress in resolving human rights issues is a key factor behind the current impasse between Afghanistan and the international community, the UN Special Representative for the country said on Wednesday in a briefing to the Security Council in New York.…
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UN’s Grandi welcomes EU deal overhauling regional migration system
20 December 2023
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Wednesday welcomed a key deal by members of the European Union (EU) to overhaul their joint migration system which promises a fresh and unified approach to deal with asylum claims.
Agreement in Brussels on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum…
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World News in Brief: WFP forced to halt some food aid in Sudan, DR Congo elections, peacekeeping chief visits CAR
20 December 2023
The World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Wednesday that it has temporarily suspended assistance in some parts of Al Jazirah State in Sudan as conflict has spread south and east of the capital, Khartoum.
WFP described the decision taken…
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INTERVIEW: Ukrainian children express ‘innocent hope for peace’
20 December 2023
The "innocent hope for peace" demonstrated by Ukrainian children and the determination of all citizens there to look to the future, is helping the country survive into a second winter of Russia’s full-blown invasion, according to the senior UNICEF representative based in Kyiv.
The deaths of over…
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COVID-19: WHO designates JN.1 ‘variant of interest’ amid sharp rise in global spread
20 December 2023
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is continuously monitoring the global spread of JN.1, a COVID-19 variant of interest, adding that current vaccines continue to offer protection against severe disease and death from this and other variants in circulation.…
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INTERVIEW: Destruction, displacement, and grief. Senior UNRWA official reflects on ‘unprecedented’ conflict in Gaza
20 December 2023
The scale of the conflict in Gaza is having an “unprecedented” effect on UNRWA, with staff operating under fierce bombardments, whilst grieving for colleagues killed in the fighting. Juliette Touma, Director of Communications at UNRWA, tells UN News that the agency, whose staff in Gaza are operating under fierce bombardments, whilst…
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Barely a drop of safe water to drink in Gaza, UN aid agency warns
20 December 2023
As the UN Security Council was slated to meet for a third consecutive day on Wednesday in a new push for consensus to pause the fighting in Gaza, the head of the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF warned that without safe water, “many more children” will soon die from disease.
“Access to sufficient…
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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
19 December 2023
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 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the World Meteorological…
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Ukraine: Türk calls on Russia to silence the guns in appeal for ‘a just peace’
19 December 2023
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva was briefed by High Commissioner Volker Türk on Tuesday who described “a litany of continuous suffering” in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s continuing invasion.
Since the onset of the invasion the UN human rights office (OHCHR) has…
