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At World Health Assembly, Countries Agree On Efforts To Boost Pandemic Preparedness
Monday, 3 June 2024, 11:32 am | UN News
Countries on Saturday agreed to a set of key actions to better guide and coordinate international efforts in preventing, detecting, and responding to public health risks, while also committing to finalize negotiations on a global pandemic agreement within ... More >>
Gaza: Children Are Starving Amid Persistent Aid Access Obstacles, Warn UN Agencies
Sunday, 2 June 2024, 7:07 pm | UN News
Far too little aid is reaching people in Gaza to the extent that children are now starving, UN humanitarians said on Friday, in a renewed appeal to Israel to respect international law regarding the safe passage of lifesaving relief in the war-shattered ... More >>
Global AI Summit Tackles Misinformation And Deepfakes With A Little ‘bot’ Of Help
Sunday, 2 June 2024, 6:55 pm | UN News
The thorny issue of how to protect the unwary from deepfakes was just one of the key issues in the spotlight at a UN conference on AI held in Geneva this week, where a staggering 25,000 enthusiasts – and robots - from 145 countries added their voices ... More >>
World News In Brief: Updates On Worsening Crises In Gaza, South Sudan, DR Congo
Sunday, 2 June 2024, 6:17 pm | UN News
Continued hostilities and evacuation orders in Gaza have led to the closure of key humanitarian facilities in Rafah, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Friday. More >>
Top UN Relief Official In Ukraine Deplores Deadly Strikes In Kharkiv
Sunday, 2 June 2024, 4:50 am | UN News
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine has strongly condemned the latest deadly Russian missile strikes in Kharkiv. More >>
UN Official Urges DPR Korea To Halt Missile Activities And Return To Dialogue
Sunday, 2 June 2024, 4:45 am | UN News
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) repeated launches using ballistic missile technology not only violate Security Council resolutions but also pose a serious risk to aviation and maritime traffic, a senior UN official said. More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Sounds Alarm Over Rising Violence In Burkina Faso
Sunday, 2 June 2024, 4:24 am | UN News
The UN’s top human rights official on Friday voiced serious concern over the dramatic deterioration of the situation in Burkina Faso, where almost 1,800 people are reported to have been unlawfully killed between November last year and April. More >>
UN Humanitarian Flight Takes Vital Medical Supplies To Haiti
Sunday, 2 June 2024, 4:18 am | UN News
On Thursday, a humanitarian flight operated by the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) flew from Panama to Haiti – specifically the Port-au-Prince airport – for the first time in three months, according to Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the ... More >>
Sudan: As Millions Face Famine, Humanitarians Plead For Aid Access
Saturday, 1 June 2024, 4:14 am | UN News
Famine in Sudan is “imminent” if aid agencies continue to be prevented from providing relief, UN humanitarians warned on Friday. More >>
Stories From The UN Archive: Keeping The Peace Over Decades
Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:10 pm | UN News
UN Member States have been deploying “Blue Helmets” (or peacekeepers) since 1948, so on the occasion of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, we’re spotlighting operations over the decades, from monitoring buffer zones in Asia to escorting aid ... More >>
INTERVIEW: Mayor Of Kharkiv Stresses Need To Protect Residents Amid Constant Shelling
Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:07 pm | UN News
The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is being subjected to heavy missile strikes from Russia, resulting in new victims and destruction every day. More >>
Cabo Verde Beats Back Climate Change Through South-South Cooperation
Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:06 pm | UN News
The small island developing State of Cabo Verde is fighting back against climate change with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). More >>
Amid Ongoing Israeli Incursions Into Gaza, Aid Facilities Shut ‘One After Another’
Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:03 pm | UN News
With no let up in reported street battles and Israeli bombardment across Gaza on Thursday, UN humanitarians warned that the flow of vital lifesaving aid into the enclave has fallen by more than two thirds since the Israeli military stepped up ... More >>
SIDS Go Forward With ‘New Sense Of Hope, Solidarity And Determination’
Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:02 pm | UN News
The roadmap towards achieving resilient prosperity for small island States adopted on Thursday in Antigua and Barbuda “marks the beginning of a new journey” and a decade of delivery for their citizens and the world, said the UN Deputy Secretary-General ... More >>
World News In Brief: Hunger Grows In Haiti, Gaza Aid Blocked, World Potato Day
Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:00 pm | UN News
As people in Haiti continue to deal with growing hunger, UN agencies are striving to deliver goods and services to populations in need. More >>
UN Refugee Chief Urges Security Council To ‘Step Up’ For Millions Displaced By War
Friday, 31 May 2024, 8:58 pm | UN News
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday called on the Security Council to prevent millions more people from being displaced by war, violence and persecution. More >>
UNICEF Reports Surge In Violence Against Children In Africa’s Central Sahel
Friday, 31 May 2024, 7:45 pm | UN News
Violence against children in the central Sahel region of Africa surged dramatically in the last quarter of 2023, skyrocketing by 70 per cent over the previous three months, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Wednesday. More >>
More Climate Funding Needed To ‘Transition From Rhetoric To Decisive Action’
Friday, 31 May 2024, 7:43 pm | UN News
Climate action taken so far to help fund efforts in cash-strapped small island developing States (SIDS) “does not measure up to what has been said” in the wake of COP28 in Dubai last year. More >>
Sudan: ‘Noose Of War’ Tightens On Civilians In El Fasher, UN Official Warns
Friday, 31 May 2024, 5:01 am | UN News
The top UN aid official in Sudan warned on Thursday that “the noose of war is tightening its stranglehold” on civilians in El Fasher, expressing her profound distress at the dire humanitarian situation there. More >>
Gaza Medics Struggling In Face Of ‘overwhelming Disaster’ As Vital Supplies Run Low: WHO
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 8:14 am | UN News
Vital medical supplies are fast running out in Gaza’s remaining hospitals, the UN health agency warned on Wednesday, amid reports of continuing Israeli bombing and hostilities in the enclave. More >>
