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Lebanon: UNHCR chief issues urgent aid appeal to stem humanitarian catastrophe
06 October 2024
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees called on Sunday for greater international support to stem the “humanitarian catastrophe” now engulfing Lebanon following a massive escalation in Israeli airstrikes and a “limited” ground invasion there targeting Hezbollah militants.
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Guterres urges global community to repeat ‘utter condemnation’ of 7 October Hamas terror attack
05 October 2024
In a message to mark one year since the Hamas-led terror attack during which more than 1,250 Israelis and foreign nationals were brutally killed on 7 October, the UN Secretary-General has called on the international community to loudly condemn those “abhorrent acts” which have triggered a shocking wave of violence across the region…
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Committee on Enforced Disappearances Closes Twenty-Seventh Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Morocco, Norway and Ukraine
04 October 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon closed its twenty-seventh session after adopting its concluding observations on the reports of Morocco, Norway and Ukraine.Juan Pablo Albán Alencastro, Committee Rapporteur, said the Committee held…
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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING
04 October 2024
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Rolando Gómez of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labour Organization, World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration, the International Committee of…
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Lebanon: Medical aid arrives in Beirut amid intensifying Israeli strikes
04 October 2024
As Lebanon suffered another night of heavy Israeli bombing, UN humanitarians and partners described how people desperate to flee the violence found the country’s main border crossing into Syria cut by a new dawn strike, forcing them to skirt “a huge crater” and rubble on foot, to reach the other side…
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WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use
04 October 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it has approved the first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use, which will boost diagnostic capacity in countries facing outbreaks of the disease.
The Alinity m MPXV assay is a real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test that…
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‘Orphanage city’ helps children in Gaza as the war grinds on
04 October 2024
Some Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered by the grinding nearly year-long war continue to deplete the Strip.
The latest death toll has surpassed more than 41,000 people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health – the majority of them women and…
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UN condemns deadly West Bank airstrike, attacks on Gaza schools
04 October 2024
The UN chief has strongly condemned the killing of several Palestinians, including women and children, who died when a residential building in Tulkarem camp in the West Bank was hit by Israeli airstrikes on Thursday night.
At least 18 people were killed, and many more fatalities could be trapped…
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Rights expert urges universities to respect pro-Palestinian protests
04 October 2024
Universities must respect peaceful activism and revise repressive policies targeting the pro-Palestinian solidarity movement on their campuses, a UN independent human rights expert said on Friday.
Gina Romero, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of assembly and association,…
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The week the world comes to Manhattan: Looking back at UNGA79
04 October 2024
Every September when UN Headquarters in New York is swamped – massive motorcades, intense security, snipers on rooftops and world leaders descending along with throngs of diplomats, media and celebrities – it’s not easy to grasp what exactly is going on or what was achieved.
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