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Nearly Half A Million Have Fled Ukraine, UN Refugee Agency Reports
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 8:02 pm | UN News
Fighting in Ukraine has so far pushed roughly a half million people across the country's borders, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, reported on Monday. “This is a massive outflow that we’re witnessing, and this has all just happened in the space ... More >>
General Assembly Holds Emergency Special Session On Ukraine
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 5:52 pm | UN News
As fighting escalates in Ukraine, UN Member States met on Monday for a rare emergency special session of the General Assembly to discuss the crisis. Assembly President Abdulla Shahid underscored that the military offensive launched by Russia five days ... More >>
Concern For Women And Children Caught Up In Ukraine Conflict
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 5:51 pm | UN News
The intensification of the Russian offensive in Ukraine is having devastating consequences on women and children, senior UN officials have reported. Catherine Russell, the newly appointed Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ), said on ... More >>
Without Climate Action, Extreme Weather Will Trigger Global Humanitarian Needs
Sunday, 27 February 2022, 6:54 am | UN News
The impact of extreme weather on Madagascar is an example of the “runaway humanitarian needs” the world will face, unless it takes action to tackle the climate crisis, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. The warning comes after tropical cyclone ... More >>
UN Condemns Brutal Killing Of Eight Polio Workers In Afghanistan
Sunday, 27 February 2022, 6:50 am | UN News
The United Nations has condemned the killing of eight polio vaccination workers in four locations in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the first such attacks since nationwide immunization campaigns resumed last November. One member of ... More >>
‘Hot Conflict’ Pushes 12 Million Syrians Into Food Insecurity
Saturday, 26 February 2022, 6:03 pm | UN News
As the Syrian war has driven poverty and hunger to levels higher than at any previous point, UN SpecialEnvoy Geir Pedersen told the Security Council on Friday that he would continue to focus on engaging the parties to bring an end to the protracted ... More >>
Russia Blocks Security Council Action On Ukraine
Saturday, 26 February 2022, 6:02 pm | UN News
Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday that would have demanded that Moscow immediately stop its aggression against Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a move several Council members said was deplorable, but inevitable. While 11 of the ... More >>
‘Political Impasse’ Hampering Change And Reform In Iraq
Friday, 25 February 2022, 5:10 pm | UN News
Political leaders in Iraq must urgently overcome their divisions and work for the good of the people, the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Thursday. Special Representative Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert reported that four ... More >>
France Violated Rights Of French Children Detained In Syrian Camps
Friday, 25 February 2022, 5:09 pm | UN News
France has violated the rights of French children detained for years in camps in northeast Syria by failing to repatriate them, the UN Child Rights Committee said in findings issued on Thursday. The Committee had considered three cases filed by ... More >>
Ukraine: Humanitarians Fear ‘Devastating’ Consequences
Friday, 25 February 2022, 6:36 am | UN News
Amid reports on Thursday that people were fleeing en masse from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev following Russia’s so-called “special military operation,” UN humanitarians warned of the “devastating” consequences of military ... More >>
Guterres Strongly Condemns Arrest Of UN Personnel In Central African Republic
Thursday, 24 February 2022, 8:54 am | UN News
Secretary-General António Guterres has called for the release of four members of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) who were arrested in the capital, Bangui, earlier this week, his spokesperson said on Wednesday. Local ... More >>
‘Race Against Time’ As Madagascar Braces For 4th Tropical Cyclone In A Month
Wednesday, 23 February 2022, 7:57 pm | UN News
The island nation of Madagascar is shoring up for its fourth tropical cyclone in a month, UN aid agencies warned on Tuesday, as they outlined plans to help the authorities assist the most vulnerable. While tropical cyclone Emnati was ... More >>
First Person : I Don’t Want To Die In The Body Of A Man
Tuesday, 22 February 2022, 7:23 am | UN News
A transgender woman in Haiti has said she does not want to die in a man's body, and hopes to leave her native country to fulfill her dream of transitioning from being a man to a woman. Semi Alisha Fermond works with transgender people at Kay ... More >>
WHO Reveals Countries To Produce First COVID-busting MRNA Vaccines In Africa
Saturday, 19 February 2022, 8:14 pm | UN News
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will be the first countries on the African continent to receive the technology needed to produce game-changing mRNA vaccines, which have proved crucial to the fight against COVID-19, the head ... More >>
Time To ‘seriously De-escalate’ Tensions Over Ukraine, Guterres Tells Munich Conference
Saturday, 19 February 2022, 6:40 pm | UN News
With tensions continuing to mount over the Ukraine crisis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday that he still believed military conflict in Europe “will not happen” – although if it did, “it would be catastrophic”. Addressing ... More >>
Conflict In Ukraine Disrupting Entire Generation Of Children, Says UNICEF
Saturday, 19 February 2022, 6:18 pm | UN News
Attacks on kindergartens and schools have been a sad reality for children in eastern Ukraine over the last eight years, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday. Since the beginning of the conflict, more than 750 schools have been damaged. On ... More >>
Ukraine Crisis: UN Political Affairs Chief Calls For ‘maximum Restraint’
Saturday, 19 February 2022, 7:23 am | UN News
Amid competing narratives of events unfolding swiftly in and around Ukraine - one detailing the withdrawal of Russian troops from the borders and another proclaiming that an attack is imminent – the UN political affairs chief called on Thursday ... More >>
South Sudan: Sharp Decline In Violence Against Civilians
Friday, 18 February 2022, 7:44 pm | UN News
Reported incidents of violence against civilians fell by around 42 per cent in 2021 compared with the previous year, according to a new report released by the UN Mission in South Sudan ( UNMISS ) on Thursday. The UNMISS Human Rights Division’s annual ... More >>
Child Sex Abuse In Madagascar ‘Widespread And Tolerated’
Friday, 18 February 2022, 7:17 pm | UN News
In Madagascar, child sex abuse is “widespread and tolerated” in tourist hotspots, UN-appointed rights experts said on Thursday. In a call to the authorities to take action to protect youngsters from child prostitution and other ... More >>
South Sudan: ‘Violence Against Aid Workers Must Stop’, Humanitarian Coordinator Urges
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 9:00 pm | UN News
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan on Wednesday strongly condemned the continued violence across the country, which is affecting the safety of civilians and humanitarian workers, constraining humanitarian access, and disrupting the delivery ... More >>
