In July, nearly 12,000 children under the age of five were identified as having an intensively malnourished out of 136,000 projected, according to aid partners.

Among these, more than 2,500 suffered from acute serious malnutrition, the most deadly form and 40 had to be hospitalized in stabilization centers.

More affected children

The proportion of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition increases, Ochha said.

In June and July, 18% of all children with acute malnutrition suffered from severe acute malnutrition, compared to 12% between March and May.

In addition, humanitarian access constraints add to the crisis.

Last month, aid partners could only reach 8,700 of the 290,000 children under the age of five who need food and nutrition supplements due to the serious shortage of lipid nutrient supplements entering Gaza.

OCHA said development “marks a spectacular collapse in the malnutrition prevention program”, noting that an average of 76,000 children – or a quarter of people in need – has been reached each month between April and June.

The distribution of other key nutritional supplies has also decreased sharply, which affects children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers.

The refuge crisis is worsening

Meanwhile, no shelter has entered Gaza since March 2.

At the same time, more than a million shelter articles and 2.3 million items such as tents, tarpaulins and waterproofing materials have been purchased and are currently stuck in Jordan and Egypt, because the Israeli authorities have not approved their entry.

The refuge crisis continues to worsen, most families living in severely overcrowded and dangerous conditions. Some have no shelters.

In July, humanitarian workers estimated 44 travel sites, discovering that 43 had homeless families.

Bombardment and displacement continue

The situation is still deteriorating due to the undergoing bombing, travel and insecurity orders, which continue to move families and disrupt humanitarian operations.

The OCHA reported that on the whole, the realities on the ground remain largely the same since Israel has announced a “tactical break” in military operations to allow the safe passage of aid.

The United Nations agency has reiterated that the supplies that have entered remain insufficient given the immense needs, while UN convoys continue to deal with challenges in the supply of aid.

Help missions taking hours

While fewer humanitarian movements have been refused, the missions which are approved still take hours, some taking more than 18 hours.

On Wednesday, five of the 11 missions requiring coordination with the Israeli authorities were facilitated. These included food collection with Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings.

Four other missions were hampered but ultimately complete, which included the fuel collection of Kerem Shalom Crossing and the fuel transfer from the south of Gaza to the north.

Medical evacuation update

One of the missions has seen the medical evacuation of 15 children in Jordan and 42 companions, withsupportof the World Health Organization (WHO). However, more than 14,800 Gaza patients still need specialized medical care.

OCHA has also pointed out the flow of commercial products in the band, noting that several trucks carrying food has entered in recent days.

While the UN will continue to monitor the situation, humanitarian workers have again highlighted the need for unhindered and predictable humanitarian access to and inside Gaza, warning that “without it, time and resources are wasted, lives are lost and the response cannot correspond to the need for needs”.

Over the past decade, an increasing ensemble of evidence has highlighted the widespread impact of ill-treatment and the need to offer respectful care at the center of all maternal and newborn health strategies.

WHOHuman reproduction program (HRP) and partners have published a new collection Wednesday, aimed at ending the ill-treatment and promoting respectful maternal and newborn care, featuring the latest evidence and advice on best practices.

From the development of policies to clinical environments and community services, this collection describes the exploitable stages to respect the rights, needs and preferences of women, newborns, parents and families.

Wide range of ill -treatment

Take different forms, ill -treatment during childbirth goes from negligence and abuse to non -consensual medical procedures, with a previous Study supported by WHO see that 40% of women in four countries had undergone a kind of abuse or discrimination during work or childbirth.

Some said they were slapped, shown in or force constraints.

In these four countries, researchers also found that More than four in 10 women had been physically or verbally attacked during childbirthSome also suffer discrimination.

Furthermore, Up to 75% of extremely sensitive procedures were carried out without consent.

Exclude

“” Too often, women are not part of decision -making and are treated with contempt or even abuseE, “said who Dr. Hedieh Mehrtash is.

“Respectful maternal and newborn care must be integrated and integrated into policies and practice”, ” said Which, as the collection provides practical resources to countries, urging health systems to proactively integrate dignity, equity and respect in all aspects of maternity and care for newborns-based on Who’s 2014 Declaration on the prevention of lack of respect and abuse.

Highlighting critical fields where ill -treatment is often overlooked, which is Compendium provides program managers with essential history to build a fundamental understanding of abuse and respectful care and aims to guarantee that respectful practices become the norm.

El Fasher is particularly affected, where hunger develops, with the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (Ochha) Warning of a deterioration situation which puts even more lives of civilians in danger.

OCHA operations and advocacy director Edem Wosornu, who is currently in the country, said the suffering was immense, with people trapped, moved or returning to ruined communities. She called for unhindered access and urgent support to reach those on the front line of difficulties.

Briefing The journalists of the UN headquarters in New York, UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq, said: “With increasingly alarming food shortages and spiral prices, residents of El Fasher would have recourse to animal food in what is an increasingly catastrophic situation.”

Thousands of people face famine, the threat of cholera

El Fasher has the highest cost of basic products nationwide at almost $ 1,000 per household per month, which is far beyond the scope of most families. This includes more than $ 700 for food alone – more than eight times the cost of staple food in other parts of the country, said Haq.

“” These high costs, associated with the headquarters and the lack of delivery of aid by the road for more than a year, have left thousands of people in front of famine“, He added, noting that the commitment around the calls of the Secretary General and the United Nations Emergency Rescue Coordinator for a break in the region is” more important than ever.

In an effort to limit public health risks in the north of Darfur, the UN humanitarian partners and local authorities launched a sanitation campaign on August 5, targeting 11,000 people in the localities of El Fasher and Dar as Salam in order to prevent epidemics of diseases in the surptered travel sites during the rainy season.

They also increase efforts to respond to a cholera epidemic in the locality of Tawila, which has absorbed 330,000 displaced people fleeing conflicts in Zamzam and El Fasher since April.

In the state of the blue Nile, the cases of cholera have increased to almost 2,800 since the end of June, with more than 40 new infections recorded yesterday, with 14 deaths were reported, said the deputy spokesman for the United Nations.

“Gender emergency”

Warnings also came from the gender equality agency, United Nations.

“This crisis is a gender emergency,” said Salvator Nkurunziza, the agency representative in Sudan, said News News.

“” Improved women and girls can be subject to the risk of exploitation and abuse, in particular during the delivery of aidWhere the protective mechanisms are low or absent in certain places, “he said.

According to the agency’s unit to combat violence against women in Sudan in March 2025, there were 1,138 cases of rape recorded since April 2023, including 193 children, most of whom were in areas affected by conflicts, he said.

“The actual number can be higher, because the fear of stigma and other social and security reasons prevent the precise relationships of violence based on sex,” he warned.

Women, girls most affected by food insecurity

“Admittedly, these crimes, including rape and harassment, can prevent women and girls from accessing food aid,” he said.

The crimes of violence not declared by the sexes in the besieged areas can be higher than those indicated in recent statistics, he continued, stressing that Women and girls are the most affected by the food insecurity of these regions, and situations indicate a hunger crisis that is looming.

“Women are at the heart of the survival of their households, especially in travel environments, but their ability to access food aid is deeply compromised,” said Nkurunziza. “Households with female head, already three times more likely to be insecure by food, are now the most confronted group in the country.”

Extreme temperatures have caused approximately 489,000 heat -related deaths each year Between 2000 and 2019, with 36% in Europe and 45% in Asia.

The impacts on heat health are particularly serious in cities due to the so-called “effect of the urban heat island”-overheating areas of the dense city compared to their rural environment-which is to enlarge problems like Continuous urbanization.

In the midst of growing 21st century temperatures, the Wmo underlined that July 2025 was the richest, ever recorded July thirdBehind those in 2023 and 2024.

Continuation of European heat

In this July record, heat waves particularly had an impact on Sweden and Finland, which have experienced unusually long temperature spells above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees fahrenheit).

Southeast Europe has also faced thermal waves and forest activities, Türkiye recording a new extreme national summit of 50.5 degrees Celsius (122.9 degrees fahrenheit).

Asia, North Africa, United States

In Asia, temperatures climbed above average in most of the Himalayas, China and Japan in July, the extreme heat continued in August.

During the week before August 5, temperatures exceeded 42 degrees Celsius (107 degrees Fahrenheit) through Western Asia, south of Central Asia, the southwest of the United States, a large part of North and South Africa of Pakistan-with certain areas exceeding 45 degrees Celsius (114 degrees Fahrenheit).

Some parts of the southwest Iran and eastern Iraq have experienced particularly severe temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), disturbing electricity and water supply, education and work.

For the week of August 4, Morocco issued heat warnings for temperatures up to 47 degrees Celsius (116 degrees fahrenheit).

Korea has also issued generalized heat warnings because the resort’s temperature records have been beaten in parts of China.

In Japan, a new national temperature record of 41.8 degrees Celsius (107.2 degrees Fahrenheit) was set on August 5, breaking the previous record of 41.2 degrees Celsius paid a week before.

Ahead

Looking at next week, the World Meteorological Center in Beijing provides that the heat waves will persist in the same regions as well as the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Mexico.

These regions should see maximum temperatures between 38 and 40 degrees Celsius (100.4 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit), with parts of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, North and South West Africa which exceeds 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).

Canadian forest fires

While Canada is experiencing one of its worst forest seasons never recorded, with 6.6 million hectares burned, smoke polluted the sky and caused poor air quality in several provinces and northern United States in late July and early August.

Twice this summer, smoke from Canadian fires crossed the Atlantic, affecting the sky over Western Europe from August 5 to 7 and above the center and southern Europe in late June.

Elsewhere, Cyprus, Greece and Türkiye fought forest fires which forced the evacuations and caused deaths. In the United States, a forest fire in the Arizona Grand Canyon National Park disrupted tourism on the emblematic site.

‘Plus an excuse’

“” The extreme heat is sometimes called the silent killer, but with the science, data and technologies of today, silence is no longer an excuse. Each death of extreme heat is avoidable“Said the deputy secretary general of the WMO, Ko Barrett.

WMO endeavors to strengthen early heat alert systems under the The first warnings for all initiative. In collaboration with global and local partners, it also helps countries develop thermal health action plans and guarantee that populations at risk receive timely alerts.

WMO is also one of the ten UN agencies supporting The appeal to the secretary general’s action on extreme heatwhich aims to stimulate global cooperation to reduce thermal impacts thanks to economic and social policy. A key objective is to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, in accordance with 2015 Paris Agreement.

According to estimates of the WMO and the World Health Organization (WHO), the scaling of thermal health warning systems in 57 countries alone could save nearly 100,000 lives per year.

“” Our network connects science, politics and action so that no community is left behind In the race to adapt to climate change which will continue to worsen extreme heat for the coming years, “said Joy Shumake-Guillemot, head of the joint climate and health program of WMO and health of the World Health of Health (Ghhin).

“It is not only a climate question, it is a public health emergency,” she concluded.

The risks for women and girls in this vast region are serious and systemic, because political instability, environmental collapse and a decreased international presence are wreaking havoc.

From the kidnapping and marriage of children to the exclusion of schools and public life, their lives and their opportunities are regularly deleted, Sima Bahous, executive director of United Nationstold ambassadors in the Security advice THURSDAY.

“” In the Sahel, where the most serious concerns in the world converge, women and girls carry the weight,She said.

She added that crises due to the increase in terrorism, poverty, hunger, a ruined aid system and narrowing civic space are “Converge – violently and disproportionately – on their bodies and their future.“”

Life is erased

In countries like Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad, life for women under extremist control “is an erasure of public space,” said Ms. Bahous.

Their movement, their visibility and even the clothes are strongly restricted. The schools have been burned or closed, leaving more than a million girls without access to education.

“” The abduction is not a by-product of terrorism in the Sahel-it is a tactic,Ms. Bahous said, noting that in Burkina Faso, the number of women and girls abducted more than doubled in the past 18 months.

In Mali, 90% of women are affected by female genital mutilation. Children’s marriage rates in some parts of the region are among the highest in the world. Maternal mortality – driven by pregnancy and poverty – is among the worst in the world.

Decrease resilience and attention

“The distances that women and girls travel for water or firewood increase longer, while their safety shrinks,” said Ms. Bahous.

Two -thirds of the women interviewed feel dangerous during these trips. Climate change only approves the difficulties, extreme heat and drought increasing both mortality and food insecurity in the region.

However, despite the assembly needs, international support is discouraged.

Only eight percent of this year’s humanitarian call for the region were met in May.

Development aid has dropped almost 20% in the past two years. Consequently, women’s protection and empowerment programs have been suspended, while the ministries focused on gender equality are funded, merged or closed.

Political space fence

At the same time, democratic and civic space is narrowed.

In Niger, only 14% of participants in recent institutional reforms were women. In Mali, only two out of 36 members writing the new national charter were women.

Leonardo Santos Simão, head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (Unowas), also warned that a deteriorated security environment – marked by waves of jihadist attacks and political turbulence – undermines progress and feeds travel.

He added that the reduction in space for the media, civil society and women’s organizations threatens hard gains and that a wider crisis is undergoing governance and peacebuilding efforts.

“The economy of the region remains very vulnerable to external shocks. Although macroeconomic indicators show an improvement, the increase in debt levels continues to limit the capacity of governments to provide essential services, “he said.

Fragile gains

However, progress is possible – and in some cases, visible.

In Chad, women now hold 34% of parliamentary seats. In border areas subject to conflicts in Mali and Niger, women’s participation in local peacebuilding has increased from five percent to 25%, helping to resolve more than 100 disputes related to rare natural resources.

Throughout the region, the joint United Nations programming increased the return of teenage girls to the school by 23%, while doubling the participation of women in local governance in 34 communities affected by conflicts. In addition, an initiative by the United Nations Bank has reached more than three million adolescent girls with health care, safe spaces and living skills training.

Stay with the women of Sahel

However, these gains remain fragile.

“” We cannot abandon the Sahel – whatever the policy, whatever the financing landscapes, whatever the geopolitical, geopolitical winds,Ms. Bahous said in conclusion.

“” Let us support with the women of the Sahel – not by charity, but in recognition of their power to shape a better future.“”

United Nations – which defends empowerment and gender equality – alongside the international humanitarian agency Care International and Partners, published the call in a report published Thursday which also highlights the main challenges and needs of assistance workers helping the returnees.

THE Genre alert Comes in the middle of a wave of returned to Afghanistan, where the Taliban reigned for four years, implementing many decrees that restrict the rights of women in the economic crisis, climatic shocks and immense humanitarian needs.

Foreigners in a strange country

Since September 2023, more than 2.4 million undocumented Afghan migrants have returned or have been forced to return, from Pakistan and Iran.

Women and girls represent a third of Rapatrians from Iran so far this year, and about half of those who come from Pakistan.

Many arrive in a country in which they have never lived, homeless, income or access to education and health care.

A myriad of risks

Like all women and girls in Afghanistan, returnees are faced with increased risks of poverty, early marriage, violence, exploitation and unprecedented restrictions on their rights, movements and freedoms.

“” Vulnerable women and girls arriving with nothing in communities that are already stretched at the point of rupture puts them even more at riskSaid Susan Ferguson, special representative of UN women in the country.

We need a place to stay, a chance to learn and a way to win.

“They are determined to rebuild with dignity, but We need more funding to provide the dedicated support they need And to make sure that humanitarian women are there to reach them. »»

Housing, income and education

The report describes urgent and long -term needs, such as safe and affordable shelters, support for livelihoods and girls’ education.

As a participant said in a discussion group in the province of Nangahar, “we need a place to stay, a chance to learn and a way to win”.

Currently, only 10% of households led by women live in a permanent shelter, almost four in 10 fear expulsion, and all girls are prohibited from frequenting a secondary school.

Impact of help reductions

Although humanitarian women at border points are essential to achieve repatriated women, cuts in foreign aid and movement restrictions are increasingly hindering their efforts.

For example, humanitarian women must be accompanied by a male guardian, or mahramtraveling. However, “financing reductions have strongly eroded the support of Mahram staff in the provinces of Kandahar and Nangarhar, leaving an inconsistent, delayed or absence provision,” said the report.

Funding reductions have seriously weakened the ability of humanitarian organizations to react, and women humanitarian workers at border points report that they are overwhelmed by the number of arrivals and which cannot meet their basic needs.

“In distress, disoriented and hopeless”

“Assisting the volume of arrivals and the difficulties facing women, children and families – many in distress, disoriented and hopeless – left a deep impact on us all by responding to this crisis,” said Graham Davison, director of Care Afghanistan.

He underlined the urgent need for support to provide basic services, safe spaces and protection to women and repatriated.

The report noted that Afghanistan is already faced with one of the most disastrous humanitarian crises in the world, led by decades of conflict, poverty and natural disasters.

While this last wave of returns threatens to push communities already fragile further in crisis, partners have urged the international community to act now to protect the rights of Afghan women and girls and to invest in the humanitarian women who support them.

Save the number of returns

Separately, the international migration organization (Iom) Also called For international support while Afghanistan confronts “one of the greatest return movements in recent history”.

The figures for returnees are on the right track to increase while an additional million Afghans should return from Pakistan following the government’s decision not to extend their stay.

The OIM operates four reception centers in the main border crossings in Afghanistan, notably Islam Qala and Milak with Iran, and Torkham and Spin Boldak with Pakistan.

The United Nations agency calls for additional funding to increase its response to meet growing borders and in the return areas.

Operating within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNCCCC), the group aims to amplify their voices in global climatic talks, where their distinct vulnerabilities have long been overlooked.

Disproportionate climate risks

Although LLDCRepresenting around 12% of the terrestrial surface in the world, they have experienced almost 20% of droughts and landslides in the world in the last decade – highlighting their disproportionate exposure to disasters linked to the climate.

Lacking access to the sea, these countries are counting strongly on neighboring public transport states, which further increases their vulnerability to the disturbances induced by the climate.

THE Awaza action program is not the world’s leading framework to meet the development needs of the LLDC, but for the first time, such a action plan includes a strong emphasis on adaptation to disasters related to the climate.

A call for resilience and preparation

Natalia Alonso Cano, head of the United Nations Office for Risk Reduction of Catastrophe (UNDRR) Regional office for Europe and Central Asia, underlined it in an interview with UN News.

The LLDC, she said, face overlapping risks: more than half of their territory is classified as a dry area; Many are in mountainous regions; And some sit in active seismic areas.

“The landlocked countries in general, they suffer about three times the economic losses compared to the global average,” she said. “In addition, mortality rates [when disasters strike these countries] much higher than the global average. Such a big difference explained by a combination of this vulnerability, but also a combination of exacerbating impacts. »»

Limited capacity, growing challenges

Developing countries without coastline often find it difficult to respond to climatic challenges due to limited financial capacity, dependence on indironed economies and based on raw materials and low governance. In 2024, a third of LLDCs were in conflict or considered unstable.

The new UN Action Plan at 10 years aims to support LLDC in climate adaptation, sustainable development and disaster risk reduction.

“We know that early alert saves lives. It’s a fact, ”said Alonso Cano. “When you can communicate with the affected communities that something will happen and they have to prepare – to evacuate, for example – they have to do certain things. If they know what they should do, this is part of the early alert system. Obviously, it saves lives, and it also saves the means of subsistence. ”

She gave an example of preparation for drought: “If there [is] A systemic drought in an area, you work in preparation with communities, they can, for example, take certain measures, perhaps reduce the quantity of cattle in the case of this, they can come together to water points, etc. There are a number of measures to remedy it. »»

Ms. Alonso Cano underlined the need for long -term planning: “We must take into account what will happen in 10, 20, 30 years. And climate change will become more extreme – we know it with certainty. ”

Women and girls at the forefront

Within the LLDC, women and girls are particularly at risk, which makes kind a key concern during the events of Thursday to LLDC3 in Awaza. A highlight was a Women Leaders ForumOpened by the UN under-Secretary General Rabab Fatima, who stressed that sustainable development cannot be carried out without the full participation of women and girls.

Ms. Fatima, the upper representative of the least developed countries, developing countries without coastline and the developing states of small islands, have noted progress in the past 25 years: women now occupy a third of parliamentary seats in LLDC, compared to only 7.8% in 2000.

“This is greater than the global average,” she said, adding that 11 of the 54 speakers in the world parliament come from the LLDC.

Persistent gender gaps

However, challenges remain. “The progress is uneven and far too slow. One in four women in the LLDC lives in extreme poverty – which represents nearly 75 million women; And almost half – about 150 million – face food insecurity. ”

Employment statistics show large disparities between the sexes. While 80% of LLDC women work informally, without contracts or protections, the global average is 56%. One in three girls in LLDCs get married early – near the double of the world rate – and only one in three ends secondary education. In addition, only 36% of women in these countries have internet access.

“This is why gender -sensitive industrial and development policies are so important,” said Ms. Fatima. “These policies must be adapted to national contexts and industrial development in rural areas, business support, employment formalization and reinforced partnerships must be priorities.”

Digital inclusion for women and girls

She also called for improving internet access and education for women and girls.

The International Telecommunications Union (Itu), a non -specialized agency, meets these challenges.

Dr. Cosmasin Zavazava, director of the UIT telecommunications development office, said UN News That, although certain regions such as the CIs have reached gender parity in Internet access, LLDCs are always faced with major obstacles.

“This is why we have developed special programs for women and girls in this region,” he said. “It is not only a question of access, but also the skills in coding of the building and the presentation of girls in areas like robotics. Our programs aim to motivate young women and girls to pursue careers in the STEM sectors. ”

Turning for action

While the Awaza conference approaches its conclusion, participants should reaffirm their political commitment to the Awaza action program on Friday, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2024.

The time has come for the implementation – or as Rabab Fatima said, a high representative: “Whether this forum is a turning point.