World Oceans Day event highlights immediate protection measures needed
UN World Oceans Day, celebrated on Friday at UN Headquarters in New York, focused on “opening minds, igniting senses, and inspiring possibilities”…
Top UN officials urge comprehensive approach to Syria’s protracted crisis
Martin Griffiths, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, highlighted the worsening humanitarian crisis, noting that 16.7 million people now require humanitarian assistance, the…
Amid Gaza war, children now work so families can survive: ILO
Details of that development and the “unprecedented devastation” to the Palestinian jobs market and the wider economy beyond Gaza and the West…
World News in Brief: Hunger grows in Haiti, Gaza aid blocked, World Potato Day
The World Food Programme (WFP) distributed more than 74,000 hot meals to over 15,000 displaced people in the besieged capital, Port-au-Prince, Stéphane…
UN chief condemns escalating violence and civilian attacks in Myanmar
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the Secretary-General “strongly condemns” recent attacks by the Myanmar military in Rakhine State and Sagaing Region that…
Sudan: as millions face famine, humanitarians plead for aid access
In a bleak assessment of the dire situation in Sudan where conflict is in its second year, the heads of 19 global…
War must never be normalized for child victims: Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine
In remarks to commemorate the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, Denise Brown also noted that boys and girls in…
Gaza: Children are starving amid persistent aid access obstacles, warn UN agencies
The alert from the World Health Organization (WHO) follows the finding that more than four in five children “did not eat for…
More than 500 Palestinians killed in occupied West Bank: UN rights chief
Two of the latest fatalities were 16-year-old Ahmed Ashraf Hamidat and 17-year-old Mohammed Musa Al Bitar, both shot “at a distance of…
Top UN relief official in Ukraine deplores deadly strikes in Kharkiv
The attacks occurred in the city’s Novobovarskyi district late on Thursday. At least three people were killed and a further 16 injured,…