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Amid Middle East crisis, ‘brutal and far-reaching’ war continues in Ukraine
31 October 2023
As the world’s attention focuses on the unfolding emergency in the Gaza Strip, a senior UN aid official on Tuesday urged the Security Council not to overlook the equally “brutal and far-reaching” crisis in Ukraine.
Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of the Coordination Division at the UN…
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Bangladesh, Maldives, DPR Korea make ‘tremendous’ strides toward disease elimination
31 October 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday hailed the elimination of several life-threatening diseases in developing nations as a major breakthrough for public health.
Visceral leishmaniasis – a parasitic disease spread by sandflies – has been wiped out in Bangladesh,…
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Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart, trapping workers in poverty: UN rights expert
31 October 2023
A UN poverty expert called on the CEOs of Amazon, DoorDash and Walmart on Tuesday to address allegations that wages at the US-based corporations are trapping workers in poverty, forcing them to rely on US Government benefits to survive.
In separate letters to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy,…
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New Permanent Representative of Malaysia Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
31 October 2023
Presentation of Credentials
Dato' Nadzirah binti Osman, the new Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
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Upcoming COP28 summit must ‘respond decisively’ to gaps in global climate action
30 October 2023
Next month’s UN climate summit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) must respond decisively to the gaps in the intranational community’s response climate crisis, Deputy-Secretary-General Amina Mohamed said on Monday.
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Tackling climate mis/disinformation: ‘An urgent frontier for action’
30 October 2023
Climate impacts are accelerating with every fraction of a degree of global warming, yet denial, distortion and falsehoods about well-established scientific facts are flooding the internet and media landscape, according to the participants of a panel discussion at UN Headquarters on mis- and disinformation relating to climate change…
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Gaza hospitals hanging on by a thread: UN humanitarians
30 October 2023
UPDATED: With the Israel-Palestine crisis in its fourth week, UN aid teams on Monday highlighted the mounting pressure on north Gaza hospitals where patients and health workers remain, amid reports of expanded Israeli ground operations.
The vicinities of Shifa and Al Quds hospitals in Gaza city and of…
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‘Stop the madness’ of climate change, UN chief declares
30 October 2023
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called on the world to “stop the madness” of climate change as he visited the Everest region in Nepal where melting glaciers are putting entire communities at risk of extinction.
Nepal has lost almost a third of its ice volume in 30 years, with glaciers…
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Immediate de-escalation ‘only antidote’ to conflict in Syria
30 October 2023
The UN Special Envoy for Syria on Monday warned that civilians there are facing the “terrifying” prospect of a potential wider escalation given the uptick in violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Briefing the Security Council, Geir Pedersen said the country had been in a “…
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UN Security Council meets on Israel-Palestine crisis; nowhere safe in Gaza
30 October 2023
Following four failed efforts to reach consensus on a Gaza resolution, the UN Security Council met in emergency session again on Monday afternoon (New York time) to discuss the ongoing crisis, amid continuing Israeli bombardment and reported ground incursions.
On Tuesday, the UN…
