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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 >>
Global Unemployment Set To Decline Slightly This Year: UN Labour Agency
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 7:28 am | UN News
Global unemployment numbers will fall modestly this year, but unequal access to jobs is still a problem worldwide, particularly for women in poorer countries, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report published on Wednesday. More >>
Gaza: UN Middle East Envoy Reiterates Call For Ceasefire, Hostage Release Agreement
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 5:13 am | UN News
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process on Wednesday urgently called for an immediate return to negotiations, the release of hostages and a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli military assault exacerbates human suffering ... More >>
Funding Is Needed To Support Sudanese Refugees In Chad: UNHCR
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 5:06 am | UN News
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is calling on partners to assist them in supporting about 185,000 Sudanese who have journeyed into Chad and are trying to escape dangerous borders, specifically in Adre border town. More >>
Explainer: Five Tools For Keeping Peace
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 4:26 am | UN News
In 1948, the United Nations took a pivotal step by deploying peacekeepers to support countries in their journey toward peace. Since then, more than two million people have served in over 70 peacekeeping missions around the world, offering assistance ... More >>
Gender Equality, Youth Aspirations Keys To Sustainable Peace, Security Council Hears
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 9:46 pm | UN News
Gender equality and the aspirations of young people are crucial for ensuring sustainable peace and security, the UN’s top political and peacebuilding official told the Security Council on Tuesday. More >>
World News In Brief: Menstrual Hygiene Day, Guterres Condemns DPRK Missile Launch, Conflict In Sudan
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 9:35 pm | UN News
Today marks World Menstrual Hygiene Day and a joint report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) highlights the lack of access millions of schoolgirls have to products, services and appropriate facilities. More >>
Indian Peacekeeper Is UN Military Gender Advocate Of The Year
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 9:30 pm | UN News
An Indian peacekeeper deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), who helped establish networks for local people to voice their security and humanitarian concerns, is the winner of the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the ... More >>
UN Supports Response As Cyclone Remal Batters Communities In Bangladesh, India
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 8:07 am | UN News
At least 16 people are reported to have been killed as the region was hit by Cyclone Remal on Sunday evening, local time, bringing gales of over 110 kilometres per hour (about 70 miles per hour), torrential rain and storm surges that inundated low-lying ... More >>
Guterres ‘heartbroken’ By Images Of Deadly Strikes On Rafah Camp
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 8:05 am | UN News
As fighting continues in Gaza, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday that he was “heartbroken” by images of people killed and injured in airstrikes on Sunday that hit tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah. More >>
Deep Concerns Over ‘Inhuman’ Detention Of Gazans By Israeli Authorities
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:55 am | UN News
UN and partner organizations have expressed deep concern over the “inhuman” detention of suspected Palestinian fighters in the enclave by Israeli authorities, alleging treatment so poor that some had to have limbs amputated “due to prolonged shackling”. More >>
Gaza: Rafah Camp Attack Heightens Focus On Dwindling Health Resources
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:52 am | UN News
UN agencies on Tuesday reiterated their call for an urgent ceasefire and humanitarian access in Gaza following Israeli air strikes on Sunday that hit a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, killing 45 people, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of ... More >>
UN Supports Papua New Guinea Following Deadly Landslide
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:49 am | UN News
The United Nations continues to assist authorities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with search and rescue efforts four days after the massive landslide in Enga province, where some 2,000 people are feared dead and accessing survivors remains a challenge. More >>
SIDS Drowning In Debt And ‘Running On Empty’, Warns Guterres In Antigua
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:47 am | UN News
International financing is the fuel for sustainable development, but small island States are “running on empty” - drowning in debt and rising sea levels due to climate change and through no fault of their own. More >>
Small Island States Meet In Antigua And Barbuda Charting New Course To Sustainable Prosperity
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 4:26 am | UN News
Good morning from the blue waters and lush green hills of the Caribbean where this Monday morning we have been reporting live from the high level opening of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) on the beautiful ... More >>
