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Gaza: Unified Arab position will ‘help guide the way forward’
28 February 2025
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday stressed that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza must hold, urging all parties to honour their commitments and prevent a breakdown of the agreement.
Addressing journalists at UN Headquarters in New York, he announced that he will be travelling to the…
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US aid cuts will make world ‘less healthy, less safe and less prosperous’: Guterres
28 February 2025
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday that severe cuts to humanitarian and development funding by the United States will have devastating consequences for millions of vulnerable people worldwide.
“These cuts impact a wide range of critical programmes,” he told…
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‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief
28 February 2025
Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday, describing conditions there as “a litany of human suffering.”
Addressing the Human Rights Council on Friday, he detailed the devastating toll of the ongoing conflict…
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Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps
28 February 2025
There were just under 150 incidents of illegal or unauthorised activity involving nuclear and other radioactive material reported last year, according to the international nuclear energy watchdog’s monitoring database tracking these incidents.
New data released on Friday…
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Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature
28 February 2025
Governments on Friday reached agreement on a strategy to raise an additional $200 billion each year to better protect the world’s flora and fauna by 2030.
Delegates met in Rome this week for the resumption of the UN Biodiversity Conference to hammer out an agreement at COP16.2 after…
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Haiti: Massive surge in child armed group recruitment, warns UNICEF
28 February 2025
The ongoing emergency in Haiti is crushing children’s chances of an education and a better future as scores of youngsters are recruited by heavily armed and violent gangs, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday.
UNICEF’s representative in Haiti, Geetanjali Narayan, told journalists…
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Children already dying in Sudan’s stricken Zamzam camp: WFP
28 February 2025
UN humanitarians on Friday warned again that thousands of families could starve in the coming weeks inside the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed that it has had to pause the distribution of life saving food and nutrition assistance, due to…
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UN Secretary-General meets with the Joint Inspection Unit
28 February 2025
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The JIU Chairperson, Carolina Fernandez Opazo and JIU Executive Secretary, Uren Pillay met with the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, 26 February 2025. The Secretary-General expressed his appreciation for the work of the JIU and committed the organization to the implementation of the Unit’s recommendations.He…
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Gaza: Despite challenges, UNRWA says ‘unparalleled progress’ made during ceasefire
27 February 2025
Since the ceasefire began in Gaza on 19 January, “unparalleled progress” has been made in providing desperately needed aid to families across the devastated enclave, said UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, on Thursday.
Agency teams have worked around the clock to…
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$2.5 billion plan to deliver aid to 11 million people in DR Congo
27 February 2025
Humanitarians are calling for $2.54 billion to support operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid ongoing attacks by M23 rebels in the east and a severe funding shortfall.
The 2025 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for the DRC, announced on Thursday, aims to deliver…
