The deprivation of several months of most basic goods in the suspension of life has resulted in an approval of the crisis. More than 100 people have been killed and hundreds of others injured along the Israeli-Israelis food convoy and distribution centers in the past two days.

As one in three people are currently spending days without food, Ochha reiterated that no one should never be forced to risk their life to eat something.

Ted Chaiban, deputy director of the United Nations Agency for Children UnicefWho is fresh for a visit to Gaza, noted that “the brands of deep suffering and hunger were visible on the face of families and children”.

He informed journalists in New York about his five -day visit to Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.

Serious risk of famine

“Gaza is now risking a serious risk of famine,” he said, informs journalists in New York about her five-day mission in the enclave, the West Bank and Israel.

“This is something that has accumulated, but we now have two indicators that have exceeded the famine threshold. »»

The crisis can only be addressed by the unrestricted help flow in Gaza, commercial supplies is also authorized to enter to help meet the needs of people.

Almost a week for the Israeli announcement to allow the scaling of aid and tactical breaks to allow the sure passage of the UN convoys, the OCHA has reported that the aid that has entered Gaza so far remains insufficient, while UN convoys continue to cope with obstacles and a danger along the routes provided by the Israeli authorities.

“Civilians must always be protected and the delivery of aid to the large -scale community level must be facilitated, not obstructed,” said OCHA.

Throughout the region, Nations are faced with challenges related to food In particular due to geographic distance, the lack of available local resources and exposure to climate change.

“The Caribbean are particularly vulnerable to the natural risks and disturbances of the supply chain, which can result in an increase in food prices”, ” saidBrian Bogart. chief Wfp for the region.

“It is deeply concerned that many people find it difficult to afford the food they need,” he said.

Deposit of the supply chain

The rise in food prices is a major concern for the region, food inflation constantly exceeding overall inflation rates, local production efforts called into question by increasing operational costs.

In 2025, 30% of the Caribbean said they had eaten less than usual, a trend notably triggered by the increase in food costs and the global geopolitical factors.

As the region is significantly based on imported agricultural inputs, “the strengthening and diversification of supply chains and commercial roads in the region are essential,” said Bogart.

He added that in a region particularly affected by climatic disasters, “these efforts will help make food more accessible and affordable while supporting faster recovery in times of crisis. »»

The United Nations Migration Agency highlights the deepening of the climate crisis and movements in Somalia

Climatic shocks and mass trips caused by conflicts have uprooted some 3.6 million people in Somalia, according to the International Organization for Migration (Iom).

Almost half of the population was affected by the climate crisis, added the United Nations Agency.

Deputy Director General of OIM UGOCHI Daniels concluded A four -day visit to Somalia this week when she expressed her solidarity for communities which continue to endure incessant droughts, floods and conflicts.

Daniels also noted that communities find solutions to resist the worst impact of the climate crisis, but they need international support from the Green Climate Fund urgently.

The IOM is active through Somalia in travel sites and in rural and other fragile areas. His work includes promoting land restoration and “environmental peacebuilding”, which aims to reduce tensions on shared resources.

Another IOM initiative encourages Somalians to invest in their own development by providing additional funding.

Last year, the communities contributed more than half a million dollars to projects such as solar energy, access to drinking water and small-scale agriculture-investments all equaled more than $ 2 million in IOM.

World Breastfeeding Week: Investing in health systems and policies for the benefit of moms and babies

This Friday (August 1) marks the start of the World Breastfeeding Week and this year’s theme calls for investing in health systems as well as policies, laws and programs that prioritize women, babies and breastfeeding.

The World Health Organization (WHO)) said Investing in the support of breastfeeding is one of the most powerful tools that political decision-makers must improve public health, strengthen savings and guarantee the well-being of future generations.

The United Nations agency explained that breastfeeding protects children’s health and improves survival, especially during the first months of life. For infants, breast milk is more than food: it also offers protection against many common diseases such as diarrhea, pneumonia and infections.

Mothers also benefit from breastfeeding reduces the risk of postpartum hemorrhage, as well as breast and ovary cancers, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Who urges governments to allocate dedicated funding for breastfeeding, including the return of new mothers, as well as maternity protection as a leave paid after childbirth.

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Development brands An important step for a region that carries almost 65% of the world HIV burden and has long depends imports antiretroviral drugs and test kits. But it can start to change.

THE Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) weakens the body’s immune system, reducing its ability to combat infections and certain cancers. Without a timely intervention, it can progress to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the most advanced infection stage.

In 2023, the Kenya -based pharmaceutical company, Universal Corporation LTD, became the first African manufacturer to receive the World Health Organization (WHO) Prequalification to produce tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, lamivudine and the dolutegravir (TLD) – front -line antiretroviral therapy for HIV.

From now on, in a big step forward, the Global Fund-a global partnership funding HIV, tuberculosis and malaria responses-is accompanied by this HIV treatment produced locally for Mozambique, which makes it the first time that the Afro-Fabrocked TLD has been deployed via this channel.

“” The supply of first -line African HIV treatment by the Mozambique Global Fund is a big step to strengthen supply chain systems in Africa, »» said Meg Doherty, Director of World HIV Programs.

“” This will contribute to better health results for people living with HIV who need uninterrupted medication supplies.“”

Reinforcement of regional capacities

Who says that the realization is part of a broader thrust to strengthen local production capacity and improve access to essential health technologies across Africa.

The United Nations agency is associated with global countries, manufacturers and health organizations – including the Global and Unitaid Fund – to extend quality African manufacturing.

“The local production of health products provided by quality is an urgent priority,” said Rogerio Gaspar, director of regulation and prequalification.

“” With each African manufacturer that meets prequalification standards, we get closer to a more independent, resilient and fair health system.“”

Progress, but structural gaps remain

Despite the milestone, which warned that production alone is not enough. To guarantee long -term sustainability, the agency calls for advanced market commitments, fair supply policies and continuous technical support.

Which also underlines diagnoses as a critical gap. With the movement of donors’ financing, many countries are under pressure to maintain HIV testing test programs, which are the first time for prevention and treatment.

In a related effort, codix organic, a Nigerian diagnostic company, recently has received an underside to make quick diagnostic tests for HIV.

Quick HIV tests produced locally will contribute to increasing affordability and approaching vulnerabilities and delays in the supply chain
– Who director Meg Doherty

“” Having quick tests on HIV products locally helps increase affordability and more broadly approach vulnerabilities and delays in the supply chain in access to diagnostics“Said Dr. Doherty.

Support the impact in the middle of the financing strain

As part of its directives, the United Nations health agency also encourages countries to adopt rapid HIV rapid tests, in particular as the first test in national algorithms, which can considerably reduce costs while maintaining services.

Although the last update marks tangible progress, more action is necessary.

“The local TLD is a major step towards this objective,” said, “but more action is necessary. »»

Between July 30 and 31 only, 105 Palestinians were killed and at least 680 others injured along the convoy roads in the Zikim region in northern Gaza, from the south of Khan Younis, and near GHF sites in Middle Gaza and Rafah, at the office (Ohchr) said in a press release published Friday

In total, since May 27, at least 1,373 Palestinians were killed during the search for food; 859 near the GHF and 514 sites along the roads of food convoys.

Ohchr noted that most murders were committed by the Israeli army and that, even if it is aware of the presence of other armed elements in the same areas, it has no information indicating their involvement in murders.

“” [The office] Has no information that these Palestinians participated directly in hostilities or threat to Israeli security forces or other people. Each person killed or injured had desperately fought for survival, not only for themselves, but also for their families and dependents, “he said.

Maintain international law

The office pointed out that intentionally directing attacks on civilians who do not directly participate in hostilities and intentionally using civilians as a war method by depriving them of objects essential to their survival, including rescue supplies that voluntarily prevent war crimes.

“If part of a systematic or widespread attack against the civilian population can also constitute crimes against humanity,” added the OHCHR, noting that the cumulative impact of these incidents and humanitarian access restrictions.

“Each of these murders must be studied quickly and independently, and those responsible for accounting for. Urgent measures must be put in place to avoid recurrence, “he said.

Non -efficient paratroopers

Meanwhile, the United Nations Rescue and Work Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), underlined the need to open level passages to provide large -scale aid through the Gaza strip.

“Airdrops are at least 100 times more expensive than trucks. The trucks carry twice as much aid as planes ”, the general commissioner of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini said on social networks.

“If there is a political will to authorize paratroopers-who are very expensive, insufficient and ineffective, there should be a similar political will to open up to level passages,” he said.

Mr. Lazzarini also noted that UNRWA had 6,000 trucks responsible for helping stuck outside Gaza pending authorization to enter.

During the ceasefire earlier this year, UNRWA and other UN agencies were able to bring 500 to 600 aid trucks every day.

“Aid has reached the entire Gaza population in terms of safety and dignity. He managed to reverse in -depth famine without any hijacking, “said UNRWA chief.

“Let’s go back to what works and do we do our job.”

These numbers are similar to those of the first quarter Out of 2025, when 1,617 people were killed and 580 were injured.

“Gang attacks in the Articonites and Central departments, and in the capital, continue to cause serious human rights violations and worsen an already disastrous humanitarian crisis,” said Ulrika Richardson, resident and humanitarian coordinator of the United Nations in Haiti.

Gangs inside and beyond the Capitol

The assassination of President Jenel Moses in 2021 sparked great violence in the gangs in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Today, the UN estimates that gangs control at least 85% of the city. In recent months, many have started to extend their influence in the departments of the Center and Artibonite.

In June alone, 45,000 people were moved to the center and at the artibonite, which means that the total number of people displaced in these two departments has more than 240,000, according to the International Migration Organization (Iom).

Between April and June, the security forces were able to slow down the expansion of the gang in the capital, but the United Nations Office in Haiti, Binuh. noted that the situation remains exceptionally volatile.

While they expand their territory, the gangs have committed human rights violations, according to the UN, including the rape of gangs, extrajudicial murders, children’s farms, trafficking and murder.

“The gang members continued to use murders, gang rapes and kidnappings to maintain their control over the populations living in areas under their influence,” said Binuh.

Different authors

The UN has long warned that gangs are not the only groups that commit violations and human rights violations in Haiti – government security forces and local self -defense groups also have engaged violations.

Of the 1,520 people killed and 609 injured between April and June, most of them were in the capital or the departments of the center and artibonite, with 24% of them killed or injured by gangs.

Gangs security operations represented 64% of deaths and injuries during this period, with 73 documented cases of summary executions and a third of deaths occurring following explosive drones.

The self -defense groups, which were formed in reaction against gangs and the inability of the security force to contain them, were responsible for 12% of people killed and injured.

Respect human rights

The humanitarian situation in Haiti is increasingly disastrous, with more than 1.3 million displaced people and half of the population faced with food insecurity.

With the humanitarian response plan only at 8%, the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (Ochha) calls on the international community to intensify financial support.

The report has also urged the international community to continue to increase the support of Haiti’s struggle against gangs.

“The report calls for the Haitian government, with the support of the international community, to strengthen the fight against gangs while strictly respecting human rights and standards on the use of force,” said the United Nations mission in Haiti.

Mandates – requests or directives of action issued by the General Assembly, the Security advice and the Economic and social council – have multiplied significantly since 1945. Today, there are more than 40,000 active mandates, served by around 400 intergovernmental bodies. Together, they require more than 27,000 meetings per year and generate around 2,300 pages of documentation each day, with an annual cost estimated at $ 360 million.

A growing challenge

Mandates guide UN work in more than 190 countries and territories, from peacekeeping to humanitarian response and development. But many are obsolete or riding, and their complexity increases. Since 2020, the number of average words of the resolutions of the General Assembly has increased by 55%, while the resolutions of the Security Council are now three times longer than they were 30 years ago.

“Let’s face the facts,” said Secretary General António Guterres Friday, during a briefing at the General Assembly, “we cannot expect a much more important impact without the means to deliver. By dividing our capacities so thin, we risk focusing more on the process than on the results. ”

A lack of coordination adds to the strain. Several United Nations entities cite the same mandates to justify separate programs and budgets, resulting in duplication and reduction in impact. More than 85% of mandates do not contain any examination or termination provision. “Effective examinations are the exception, not the rule,” said Guterres. “The same mandates are discussed year after year – often with only marginal modifications of existing texts.”

The UN80 initiative: a systemic approach

THE Report of the examination of the implementation of the mandate,, Released on July 31, is part of the wider initiative of the Secretary General’s UN80 – a multi -year effort to modernize the functioning of the UN. Rather than assessing the mandates individually, the report adopts a “life cycle” approach, by examining how the mandates are created, implemented and examined and proposing ways to improve each step.

“Let me be absolutely clear: mandates are the affairs of the Member States,” Guterres told the General Assembly. “They are the expression of your will. And they are the sole property and the responsibility of the Member States. The vital task of creating them, examining them or withdrawing you resides – and you alone. Our role is to implement them – fully, faithfully and effectively. ”

“This report respects this division,” he added. “He examines how we make the mandates you confuse us. »»

From creation to delivery

To approach duplication and complexity, the report calls for registers of the digital mandate which facilitate monitoring of what has been adopted in different organizations. It also encourages shorter and clearer resolutions with realistic resources requirements. “We cannot expect a much more important impact without the means to deliver,” said Guterres.

The report also highlights the growing operational burden on meetings and reports. Last year, the United Nations system supported 27,000 meetings and produced 1,100 reports – three out of five on recurring subjects. “Meetings and reports are essential,” said Mr. Guterres. “But we must ask ourselves: do we use our limited resources in the most effective way?”

Financing and impact

The proposals include the reduction in the number of reports and meetings, rationalization of formats and the use of the surveillance report to guarantee relevance. The secretary general also calls for stronger coordination between the United Nations entities to avoid overlapping and ensuring that each mandate is linked to clear deliverables.

The report warns that fragmented funding underflects coherent delivery. In 2023, 80% of the United Nations funded from voluntary contributions, 85% of which were affected. “Fragmented funding, combined with fragmented implementation, leads to a fragmented impact,” said Mr. Guterres. “Each of us has a role to play in solving this problem. And each of us must act on the levers under our control. ”

Put people first

For the secretary general, reforms not only concern the process, but on the impact. “Mandates do not end in themselves,” he said. “These are tools – to provide real results, in a real life, in the real world.”

He praised UN staff as at the heart of this effort. “None of the work of implementing mandates is possible without our staff – the women and men of the United Nations,” said Guterres. “Their expertise, their dedication and their courage are essential for this business. If we want to improve the way we implement mandates, we must also support and empower people who make them. ”

A call to the Member States

In his final remarks, the Secretary General stressed that the next steps were to come from the Member States. “The path to follow is up to you to decide,” he said. “My responsibility is to make sure that the secretariat provides the capacities and inputs required by the action plan you choose.”

The report invites Member States to consider an intergovernmental process limited over time to advance proposals and ensure that this effort succeeds when the previous ones failed. The result, according to the report, would be a more agile, coherent and impactful UN which is better to provide programs and services.