Mortal sectarian violence has moved more than 145,000 people in the southern city, some of whom fled to governors neighboring Dar’a and Rural Damascus.

The convoy has carried a range of critical support, including food, wheat flour, fuel, medicines and health supplies.

Ochha Coordinated with the sarc to prepare the convoy, which included the supplies of the United Nations agencies.

Commitment and support

The office continue to engage With the authorities and partners to facilitate a United Nations Inter -listings mission in Sweida, depending on the conditions.

The UN also works with partners to provide a range of assistance to displaced people in Dar’a and Rural Damas, including food, water and health and protection services.

Mobile medical teams have so far provided more than 3,500 consultations, including trauma care, maternal health and psychosocial support while nearly 38,000 people have received food aid.

In addition, more than 1,000 kits containing non -food items were distributed in Dar’a and Rural Damas, helping more than 5,000 people.

OCHA has said that United Nations Inter -listings to assess needs and provide assistance to the two governors are scheduled for the coming days.

Sweida’s first convoy arrived on Sunday. The 32 trucks brought food, water, medical supplies and fuel provided by the United Nations World Food Program (Wfp), the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and other partners.

Almost 1.3 million people in the Caribbean country fled their housesWith 15,000 additional uprooted last week after armed attacks in the municipalities of Dessalines and Verrets in the Artibonite department.

In addition, the United Nations children’s funds (Unicef) and its partners detected more than 217,000 children for acute malnutrition in 2025. Some 21,500 boys and girls were admitted for acute malnutrition treatment, representing only 17% of 129,000 children who should need rescue services this year.

This malnutrition stems from severe food insecurity across the country. The integrated classification of the food security phase (IPC) said that 5.7 million people – more than half of the population of Haiti – faced high levels of acute food insecurity between March and June this year.

Emergency of education

The children of Haiti also face an emergency of education. More than 1,600 schools remain closed in Haiti, an increase of more than two -thirds compared to the beginning of the year.

“Without access to education, children, of course, are more vulnerable to exploitation and recruitment by gangs”, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric Journalists said At New York headquarters

In response, UNICEF offered learning opportunities to more than 16,000 children, and the agency has granted more than 100,000 children in mental health and psychosocial support.

Insecurity and lack of access funds

Despite the disastrous humanitarian needs and the laudable efforts of the UN agencies, the current support “is only a fraction of what is necessary in Haiti,” said Dujarric.

Insecurity continues to force the humanitarian response, causing challenges of access, supply shortages and the closure of health establishments.

Subsequently, the many displaced families with an urgent need for hygiene supplies, food, emergency shelters, medical assistance and other essential items are often unable to access them.

The humanitarian response is also hampered by a serious lack of funds.

“Haiti remains, as I have said here on several occasions, the least funded from our calls from sub-financed countries worldwide,” said Dujarric. More than the half of the year, the Haitian humanitarian response plan received less than 9% of the $ 908 million required.

Mathare, one of the largest slums in the country, is home to more than 500,000 people in five square kilometers, piling up them together and storing human waste that they produce in the streams discovered. But when he told the visit later UN NewsIt was not the image that stuck him the most.

What he remembered most clearly was a group of boys and girls, dressed in navy blue school uniforms – girls in skirts and pants boys, both with miniature ties under their vests – surrounded by howling chickens and human waste.

There was no formal or Unicef-Claque financed nearby. But, the Mathare community had met to create a school where their children may have the chance to break an intergenerational cycle of poverty and invisibility.

“It was a message for me that development should be located. Something happens to the community [level]”Said Mr. Jobin.

Globally, more than a billion people live in overcrowded slums or informal colonies with inadequate housing, which makes one of the largest development problems in the world, but also one of the most under-reported.

“The first place where the opportunity begins or is refusal Deputy secretary general Amina Mohammed said at a high level meeting of the Economic and social council (Ecosoc) Tuesday.

A decisive test

Mr. Jobin was one of the experts socket part in the High -level political forum (Hlpf) On sustainable development at the UN headquarters in New York this month to discuss progress-or its absence-to the agreed world 17 Sustainable development objectives (SDD).

One of the objectives aspires to create lasting cities and communities. However, with nearly three billion people faced with an affordable housing crisis, this objective is not achieved.

“Housing has become a decisive test of our social contract and a powerful measure of the question of whether the development really reaches people or around them quietly,” said Rola Dashti, General Subsecretaire for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (Escwa).

Housing as a mirror for inequalities

With more than 300 million people without housing worldwide, it is sometimes easy to forget a billion people who are inadequately accommodated. These people, who populate the colonies and informal slums, live in unstable housing and in communities where few services are provided.

“Housing reflects inequalities that shape people’s daily life. He reports who has access to stability, security and opportunities and who does not, “said Dashti.

Children living in slums or informal colonies are up to three times more likely to die before their fifth anniversary. They are also 45% slower than their peers due to poor nutrition.

Women and girls are more likely to undergo sexist violence. And the trafficking in human beings and the exploitation of children are also more widespread.

Intergenerational invisibility

People in informal establishments are often not part of the national census, according to Mr. Jobin, which means that they are not taken into account in policies, social programs or budgets. Even if they received social protections, these colonies rarely have addresses to which families could receive cash transfers.

This is why experts often say that people living in informal colonies and slums are invisible in official data and programs.

“You were born from an invisible family, so you become invisible,” said Mr. Jobin. “You don’t exist. You are not reflected in policies or budgeting. »»

This invisibility makes it almost impossible to escape poverty.

“You become a prisoner of a vicious circle that is entertained, then you reproduce your child,” he said, referring to an essential deprivation cycle.

The urban paradox

More and more people migrate to urban centers, leading to the growth of these informal establishments. With their growth, it is more urgent to solve problems.

The World Bank estimates That 1.2 million people each week move in cities, often seeking the opportunities and resources they offer. However, millions of people are never able to benefit, becoming rather forgotten end notes in an urban paradox which depicts urban wealth as protection against poverty.

By 2050, the number of people living in informal colonies should triple three billion, a third of whom will be children. More than 90% of this growth will occur in Asia and Africa.

“These statistics are not only numbers; They represent families, they represent workers and entire communities, ”said Anacláudia Rossbach, General Subsecretaire of United Nations Habitatwho works to make cities more sustainable.

Housing as a human right

It is not only the national and local governments that find it difficult to face the informal colonies. Organizations like UNICEF are also “blind,” said Mr. Jobin, concerning the scope of problems in informal regulations.

Development partners face twin problems in the design of interventions. There is not enough national data and informal governance, or the lords of the slums can be more critical for the coordination of programs than traditional government partners.

“We know the problem, but in a way, we have not really been able to intervene,” he said.

Ms. Mohammed stressed that “we must start to see adequate and affordable accommodation as more than the result of development; This is the foundation on which any other development must rest. ”

“The accommodation does not just concern a roof above its head. It is a fundamental human right and the foundation on which peace and stability itself rests. ”

The UN’s main judicial organization judged that the states had the obligation to protect the environment from greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and to act with reasonable diligence and cooperation to fulfill this obligation.

This includes the obligation under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change To limit global warming to 1.5 ° C above pre-industrial levels.

The court also ruled that if the States violated these obligations, they engage in legal responsibility and may be required to cease unjustified conduct, to offer guarantees of non-repetition and to repair the whole depending on the circumstances.

“A victory for our planet”

UN Secretary General António Guterres Published a video message welcoming the historic decision, which one day came after its delivery A special address Member States on unstoppable world change towards renewable energies.

“This is a victory for our planet, for climate justice and for the power of young people to make a difference,” he said.

Court reasoning

The court used the commitments of the Member States towards environmental treaties and human rights to justify this decision.

First, Member States are parts to a variety of environmental treaties, including ozone layer treaties, the Biodiversity agreementTHE Kyoto protocolTHE Paris Agreement And many others, which forces them to protect the environment of people in the world and in future generations.

But, also because “a clean, healthy and lasting environment is a prerequisite for the enjoyment of many human rights”, since the Member States are parties to many human rights treaties, including the Universal Declaration of Human RightsThey are required to guarantee the enjoyment of these rights by attacking climate change.

Case context

In September 2021, the state of the Pacific Island of Vanuatu announced that it would request an advisory opinion from the court on climate change. This initiative was inspired by the group of young Pacific Island, the students of the island fighting against climate change, who stressed the need to act to combat climate change, in particular in small island states.

After the country has put pressure on other UN member states to support this initiative at the General Assembly, on March 29, 2023, he adopted a resolution requesting an advisory notice from the Icj On two questions: (1) What are the obligations of states under international law to ensure environmental protection? and (2) What are the legal consequences for states under these obligations when they cause damage to the environment?

THE Charter of the United Nations allows the general assembly or Security advice Ask the ICJ to provide an advisory notice. Even if advisory opinions are not binding, they carry a significant legal and moral authority and help to clarify and develop international law by defining the legal obligations of the States.

This is the greatest case never seen by the ICJ, obvious by the number of written declarations (91) and the states which participated in oral procedures (97).

The “World Court”

The CIJ, known informally under the name of “World Court”, regulates legal disputes between the member states of the United Nations and gives advisory opinions on the legal issues which have been returned to it by the organs and agencies of the UN.

It is one of the six main organs of the UN alongside the General Assembly, the Security Council, of the Economic and social council (ECOSOC), the supervisory council and the secretariat and is the only one not based in New York.

Khaled Khiari, assistant secretary general for the Middle East, told ministers and ambassadors that the ongoing talks had to lead to a permanent end to hostilities, the release of all hostages, entry without hindrance of humanitarian aid and for recovery and reconstruction to start.

He painted a dark table of conditions on the ground, citing broad Israeli military operations, in particular to Deir al-Balah, which led to a new mass movement.

The UN premises were also struckMake humanitarian operations and exacerbate the already disastrous situation.

Humanitarian tolls deepens

At least 1,891 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since June 30, according to figures from the Gazan health authorities, of which 294 people were killed while trying to collect aid near militarized distribution points.

Evacuation orders continue to force repeated trips while food insecurity and malnutrition aggravate despite a limited increase in the entry of humanitarian supplies.

On the Israeli side, 13 soldiers were killed during the same period. Palestinian armed groups have pursued sporadic rocket attacks in Israel. According to Israeli sources, 50 hostages, including 28 which are dead, are still detained by Hamas and other groups.

“” The secretary general has repeatedly sentenced the continuous maintenance of hostages by Hamas and other armed groups“Underlined Mr. Khiari.”The hostages should be published immediately and unconditionally.“”

The places of worship have struck

The briefing also highlighted increasing concerns concerning civilian victims and attacks on protected sites.

Mr. Khiari condemned a Big of July 17 On the Catholic church of the Holy Family of Gaza City, who killed three and injured several others. The strike forced the evacuation of around 600 Palestinians, including children and people with special needs, who were sheltered.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s office expressed his regret, describing the strike as the continuation of “wandering ammunition” and said that an investigation was underway, Khiari reported.

Disastrous fuel shortages

Since July 9, Israel has granted limited fuel deliveries through the passage to Kerem Shalom / Karim Abu Salem after 130 days of a complete blockade.

However, the amount is “A fraction of what is necessary to manage essential rescue services in Gaza, where almost all aspects of life depends on fuel“Warned Mr. Khiari.

Occupied West Bank

Turning to the occupied West Bank, Mr. Khiari reported high levels of violence, including deadly Israeli military operations, settlers against the Palestinians and reprisals of the Palestinians against the Israelis.

He noted that the Palestinian Authority (PA) faced a serious budgetary crisis, with 2.7 billion dollars in customs clearance revenues retained, paralyzing its ability to pay wages and provide basic services.

“” Unless urgently, the deterioration of the AP budgetary and institutional situation could have catastrophic consequencesSaving the significant progress made over many years to build Palestinian institutions, “he warned, urging immediate international support.

Tensions in the region in the broad sense

Mr. Khiari also underlined the continuous tensions along the blue line between Lebanon and Israel as well as the renewed violence in the Sweida region of Syria and Israeli air strikes on Syrian territory.

He urged Israel and Syria to join the 1974 disengagement agreement and to avoid all the actions that risk climbing conflict.

Call on a political horizon

Khiari concluded by reiterating that only a political process relaunched towards the two -state solution can provide a lasting solution.

“” Our objective is clear: to realize the vision of two states – Israel and a viable and sovereign Palestinian state of which Gaza is an integral part – living side by side in peace and security In secure borders and recognized on the basis of the lines before 1967 with Jerusalem as the capital of the two states, “he said.

In the first half of 2025, only 17,000 births were recorded, according to the Gazan health authorities, representing a 41% drop in the Gaza birth rate in the past three years, the agency said.

In addition, 220 mothers died-more than 20 times the total number of maternal deaths in 2022-while at least 20 newborns died within 24 hours of birth.

“Each mother and child deserves the right to a safe birth and a healthy start of life. What we are witnessing is a systematic denial of these fundamental rights, pushing an entire generation at the edge, “said Laila Baker, regional director For the Arab states to Unfpa.

These conditions occur in the middle of an Israeli bombing during Gaza which has moved the entire Palestinian population at least once and would have killed more than 60,000.

Something treatable becomes a death sentence

The UNFPA said that the systematic targeting of a health care system already on the verge of collapse creates an untenable situation for mothers and newborns.

The majority of hospitals and health establishments have been damaged or destroyed with medicine actions for seriously low purposes and seriously damaged medical equipment.

The ambulance services are also faced with serious obstacles, which means that women who give birth are faced with extreme challenges to access health care. In this context, the treatable complications of birth become death penalties.

“The extent of suffering for new mothers and their babies in Gaza is beyond understanding,” said Ms. Baker.

Avoidable loss

The UNFPA said that he had 170 trucks on the border between Israel and Gaza – and that since March 2025 – which contain rescue supplies such as ultrasound, portable incubators and maternity kits. However, they were not allowed to enter the band.

The agency has urged Israel to allow humanitarian aid “without hindrance, supported and demilitarized” in Gaza, including fuel, medical supplies and nutritional support.

“Each lost moment means a more preventable loss of life and unimaginable suffering for the most vulnerable,” said UNFPA.

Helps severe operations

Meanwhile, in New York, the United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that the humanitarian operations of the organization in Gaza were “currently subject”, with humanitarian workers confronted with serious security risks, unreliable passages and routine delays or blockages of supplies.

He said that the UN “was ready to seize the opportunity of a ceasefire to considerably increase humanitarian operations through the Gaza Strip, as we did during the previous ceasefire”.

“Our plans are ready and they are finalized.”

However, it depends on the delivery of safe and unhindered help in Israel: to open all passages, restore the main supply routes, authorize fuel and essential equipment and ensure the safety of humanitarian personnel and civil movements.

The needs aggravate

During a visit to Gaza, the resident and humanitarian coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov met with assistance agencies in Deir al-Balah and congratulated the workers operating “in extraordinarily difficult and dangerous conditions”.

The needs aggravate: 109 Rescue organizations warn mass famine spread, humanitarian workers vanish hunger, the malnutrition of children is increasing and hospitals are overwhelmed and closes for lack of fuel.

“The amount of help that has entered Gaza is just a net compared to immense needs. Above all, we need a cease-fire to put an end to this devastating situation, “said Dujarric.