All eyes on Gaza as aid teams retrieve first lifesaving relief in months
“Today will be crucial. Truckloads of lifesaving aid finally on move again,” said top UN aid relief coordinator Tom Fletcher.Hours earlier and in a...
‘Keep the lights on’ for women and girls caught up in crisis
The UN’s reproductive health agency, UNFPA, has been working to assess the impact of recent steep funding cuts, warning that from the Democratic Republic...
Afghanistan’s returnees at a crossroads between collapse and recovery
Since September 2023, some three million Afghans have returned – many having been forcibly deported from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran. Often, they arrive exhausted,...
Gaza: Israel ‘approaches UN’ to resume limited aid deliveries, says aid agency
“We have been approached by Israeli authorities to resume limited aid delivery, and we are in discussions with them now on how this would...
UN humanitarian chief demands resumption of aid in Gaza
No aid has entered the enclave since Israel implemented a ban on 2 March and the entire population, more than two million people, is...
UN’s Türk criticises ‘draconian’ decree limiting dissent in Mali
Volker Türk on Friday called the decree “draconian” and urged Mali’s Transitional President, General Assimi Goïta, to reverse the decree issued earlier this week.Signed...
End senseless killings in the West Bank: UN rights office
OHCHR has urged Israel to stop all extrajudicial executions and other unlawful use of force and ensure all those responsible are brought to justice.Over...
Another year, another rise in food insecurity – including famine
It is the first time since 2017 that a famine has been declared anywhere on Earth.In the 20 months since the war between rival militaries...
‘We are still waiting for our loved ones’: Families of the abducted speak out
Each called for justice under international law and for perpetrators to be held accountable.Sung-Eui Lee, daughter of a South Korean man abducted by North...
US-Houthi ceasefire ‘a welcome opportunity’ to advance peace efforts in Yemen
Ambassadors were briefed by the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, who commended Oman for its efforts to achieve the agreement which came...
World News in Brief: Sudan refugees, aid for Syrian returnees, MERS alert in Saudi...
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, reported on Wednesday that most of the new arrivals are women and children.Many have come from Zamzam camp and...
US deportations raise serious human rights concerns
His Office, OHCHR, has received information that over 100 Venezuelan deportees are being detained at a notorious prison in El Salvador. OHCHR said 142,000 people...
Number of internally displaced breaks new record with no let-up in conflicts, disasters
“These figures are a clear warning: without bold and coordinated action, the number of people displaced within their own countries will continue to grow...
UN migration agency helping migrants in the US return home voluntarily
In a statement on Monday, the UN agency said it is supporting Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) – not deportation – for those who decide...
Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps
The tournament is more than a sporting event. It’s a lifeline. In Ma’rib Governorate, where over 2.3 million internally displaced people have settled, families...
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...
Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use aid as ‘bait’
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder insisted that the Israeli proposal to create a handful of aid hubs exclusively in the south of...
UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples
The landmark decision, announced on Thursday, also considered the harm caused to succeeding generations.“Forced displacement is permanent in nature until the victims benefit from...
Absent faces, destroyed homes – young students paint the pain of Gaza
Their paintings and drawings range from a portrait of an esteemed Palestinian poet and family members killed in conflict, to a sky blackened by...
New horror in Gaza as double strike on school shelter kills 30
The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, maintained that Israeli forces hit the school in Al Bureij, Middle Gaza, at around 6pm on Tuesday...
DR Congo aid operation reaches Beni with food supplies for thousands
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that trucks packed with cereals, beans and cooking oil reached the city of Beni in North Kivu...
Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates
Nearly 20,000 people – mainly traumatized women and children – have reached Chad in the past two weeks, according to the UN refugee agency, UNCHR.“Most...
Sudan drone attacks raise fears for civilian safety and aid efforts
“These attacks appear to be the latest in a series of retaliatory military operations, conducted by the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed...
UN warns of growing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza
In a statement released by the UN Humanitarian Country Team – which leads coordinated relief efforts across the Occupied Palestinian Territory – officials condemned...
