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    Lebanon crisis: UN launches $426 million aid appeal as ‘limited’ ground invasion reportedly begins

    From the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, spokesperson Jens Laerke described chaotic scenes across Lebanon as people continued to flee airstrikes that have killed ...

    World News in Brief: ‘Massive’ needs in Sudan, DR Congo aid shortfall, support for...

    The UN estimates that in the past few weeks, over 330,000 people have fled into Tawila after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched violent...

    Record levels of displacement amid global conflict and environmental disasters

    Mr. Piper said that the current global figure of 76 million represented those who have “lost their homes, livelihoods, their communities and in some...

    Children’s lives ‘turned upside down’ by wars across Middle East, North Africa, warns UNICEF

    Alarmingly, 110 million children in the region live in countries affected by war, with homes, schools and health facilities damaged or destroyed in fighting. “A...

    150,000 Rohingya flee to Bangladesh amid renewed Myanmar violence

    As armed clashes intensify and conditions worsen inside Myanmar, thousands continue to cross the border seeking safety in the overcrowded camps of Cox’s Bazar,...

    Myanmar earthquake latest: entire communities flattened, aid teams say

    Speaking to journalists from Yangon on Tuesday, Julia Rees, Deputy Representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the country described seeing massive needs...

    Myanmar crisis deepens as military attacks persist and needs grow

    The 28 March quakes killed over 3,800 people and damaged or destroyed more than 55,000 homes across multiple regions, including Bago, Kayin, Magway, Mandalay,...

    Haiti’s destiny ‘bright’ despite terrifying escalation of violence

    Haiti is faced with a multifaceted crisis including rising gang violence, political instability, the displacement of over 700,000 people as well as widespread hunger.UNICEF has...

    Sudan’s El Fasher siege: UN humanitarians killed as refugee crisis intensifies

    In a new report, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) has detailed the catastrophic humanitarian situation unfolding in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s...

    DR Congo: Battle for Goma continues as ‘volatile’ crisis unfolds

    In a briefing on Monday, Mr. Lacroix told journalists in New York that some staff from the UN’s Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic...

    Human toll of senseless conflict ‘is incalculable’, says Türk

    As the world prepares to mark Human Rights Day 2024, Mr. Türk reflected on “a time when human rights are not only violated, but...

    Reconnect with our common humanity and reject ‘treacherous new normal’

    Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Türk underscored that international human rights and humanitarian law “are our mainstay against unbridled power.”Speaking...

    Floods, landslides wreak havoc across South Asia

    The worst affected regions are Chattogram and Sylhet, where major rivers are “flowing well above danger levels”, further aggravating the situation, according to the...

    WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza

    On Friday, WFP announced it had delivered its last remaining supplies to kitchens preparing hot meals which are expected to be completely gone within...

    Security Council debates Gaza as WHO announces polio pauses for lifesaving vaccination campaign

    The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on the continuing crisis in Gaza and the occupied West Bank on Thursday....

    Lazzarini: Annexation of Gaza won’t create lasting Middle East peace

    “More than 100 trucks have been looted, primarily UNRWA and the WFP, basically, 80-90 per cent of the convoy on that day,” said...

    World News in Brief: Burkina Faso, refugees and climate change, Afghan women deserve seat...

    More than six million people across the country – about a third of the population – need humanitarian support and protection, UN Spokesperson Stephané...

    West Bank crisis: UN chief calls for immediate halt to Israeli strikes

    Mr. Guterres’s intervention late Wednesday comes amid one of the biggest Israeli Security Forces (ISF) operations in the West Bank in years – the...

    Stories from the UN Archive: What UNRWA built

    UNRWA was established by UN Member States in 1949 to carry out direct relief and development programmes for Palestinian people who lost their homes...

    Israeli attack puts last functioning hospital in Gaza City out of service

    “Al Ahli Hospital is out of service,” WHO spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris told UN News, after the airstrike early on Sunday morning. “The pharmacy was destroyed,...

    Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals

    William O’Neill, who reports to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, highlighted an attack on the Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince on 17...

    World News in Brief: Gaza aid crisis worsens, South Sudan clashes, Ecuador oil spill...

    “It has now been a month and a half since any supplies were last allowed through the crossings into Gaza,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric...

    World News in Brief: Security Council Libya resolution, cyclone recovery in Mozambique, Marburg virus...

    The resolution authored by the United Kingdom was passed by 14 votes with none against – permanent Council member Russia abstained.It introduces new provisions...

    Gaza: First polio case confirmed in war-shattered enclave

    Head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed deep concern at the development and said that the infant, from Deir...