Tom Fletcher noted that more than 30 million people need humanitarian assistance. In addition, with the famine declared in several places and more than 14.6 million displaced people, Sudan represents the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

“On the other hand, the international community has said that we will protect the inhabitants of Sudan. Residents of Sudan should ask us if, when and how we will start to keep this promise, “said the rescue chief.

When will the international community fully finance the efforts to help Sudan?

When will the responsibility for violence in Sudan occur?

He called on the international community to stop acting with “indifference and impunity” towards Sudan,

“Broken” health system “

Since Sudan conflict broke out in April 2022, civil infrastructure across the country have been damaged or destroyed, including health and water and sanitation systems.

The health system in particular has been “broken into pieces”, according to Mr. Fletcher, leading to epidemics of measles and cholera increasingly disastrous.

Cholera epidemicwhich started in July 2024 and is now confirmed in 13 of the 18 states of Sudan, infected more than 74,000 people in total and killed 1,826.

“I saw the devastation caused by the cholera epidemic in Khartoum, where the health system was devastated by the conflict and has trouble facing the formidable request for health establishments,” I saw the trend of health establishments, Dr. Shible Sahbni, WHO representative in Sudan.

The World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with the Sudanese Ministry of Health, launches a vaccination campaign on the 10 -day cholera in the state of Khartoum.

The campaign will aim to reach 2.6 million people in order to contain the cholera epidemic in the state.

“Vaccines will help stop cholera on its traces while we strengthen other response interventions,” said Dr. Sahbni.

CPI judges express support for colleagues sanctioned by us

Judges at International Criminal Court (ICC) expressed his solidarity with their colleagues who were recently sanctioned by the United States government, describing the decision as “coercive measures aimed at undermining the independence of the judiciary”.

“The judges are united and will continue to exercise their functions independently, impartial and conscientiously, fulfilling requests from the rule of law,” they said in a statement on Thursday.

The United States announced sanctions on June 6 against four judges from Benin, Peru, Slovenia and Uganda. The judges are currently overseeing a 2020 case which alleys war crimes in Afghanistan committed by the American and Afghan armies and the CPI arrest warrants in 2024 issued for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.

The UN Human Rights Head, Volter Türk, had previously declared that he was “deeply disturbed” by these sanctions, arguing that they corroded international governance and justice.

No inappropriate influence

The ICC is an independent judicial organization established under the status of Rome, adopted in 1998. Although it is not part of the United Nations, the CPI Works in close collaboration with her in a cooperative framework.

In the press release, the judges said that they decided and will continue to decide on affairs based on facts and regardless of threats, restrictions or incorrect influence “of any quarter or for any reason”.

“The judges reaffirm that they are equal in the execution of their functions and that they will always support the principle of equality before the law.”

More than 80 million Europeans suffering from neglected chronic respiratory diseases

Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma are largely underestimated, sub-diagnosed and poorly managed in Europe-affecting 80 million people and costing $ 21 billion per year, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHOsaid Thursday.

A new WHO report in Europe and European respiratory society underlines how smoking and air pollution stimulate the growing crisis.

“We take 22,000 breaths per day, but respiratory health remains one of the most neglected areas of global health,” said Professor Silke Ryan, president of the European Respiratory Society.

6^th Cause of death

Data analysis shows that chronic respiratory diseases are the sixth cause of death in Europe. They are often poorly diagnosed due to low diagnostic systems, limited training and inadequate health data.

Although effective treatments are available, deaths related to asthma remain high in young people, while chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is responsible for eight deaths by respiratory disease.

While preparations begin for the high -level meeting of 2025 on non -transmitted diseases, that Europe has urged governments to prioritize chronic respiratory diseases, to fix measurable targets and to fight against deep causes such as tobacco and air pollution.

The movement followed the Security adviceThe fact of not adopting a similar resolution last week due to a lonely veto by the permanent member of the United States.

The resolution was supported by 149 Member States, with 12 votes against and 19 abstain. Among those who opposed the resolution were the United States and Israel, which were joined among others by Argentina, Hungary and Paraguay.

India, Georgia, Ecuador, Romania and Ethiopia were among the countries abstaining.

End famine as a weapon of war

Presented by more than 20 countries, it strongly condemns the use of famine as a weapon of war, requires a complete lifting of the Israeli humanitarian aid and insists on the protection of civilians under international law.

Although the resolutions of the General Assembly are not legally binding, they have significant political and moral weight.

On June 4, the Security Council did not adopt its draft resolution after a veto by the United States, a permanent member.

Meanwhile, famine conditions continue to threaten lives across Gaza, and the reports persist that civilians are killed or injured while trying to access foods to distribution points independently of the UN but supported by Israel and the United States.

The Assembly passes like stands of the Security Council

Opening of the special session, President of the General Assembly Phillémon Yang said that “horrors in Gaza should end” after 20 months of war. He criticized the paralysis and the incapacity of the Security Council and the inability to assume his central responsibility to maintain peace and security.

He called the situation on the “unacceptable” field, emphasizing the deprivation of food, water and medicine for civilians, the continuous captivity of hostages and the need for urgent international action.

Mr. Yang noted that the high -level meeting of next week in New York on the implementation of a two -state solution, chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, claiming that it would offer a chance for a renewed commitment to peace in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Key elements of resolution:

• Ceasefire: Call an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire by all parties.
• Hostages: Requires the immediate and unconditional release of all the hostages held by Hamas and other armed groups.
• Implementation: Exhort the complete and immediate implementation of the Security Council resolution 2735 (2024), including the ceasefire, hostage exchanges and prisoners, the return of displaced persons and the withdrawal of Israeli Gaza troops.
• International law: Reaffirms that all parties must respect international humanitarian law and human rights, with particular attention to civil protection and the responsibility of violations.
• Famine as a weapon: Strongly condemns the use of famine and the denial of aid as a tactical of war.
• Humanitarian access: Requires complete, safe and undoubted help delivery – including food, medicines, water, shelter and fuel – in any Gaza.
• Detention practices: Calls for human treatment and the release of those who are arbitrarily detained and on the return of the remains.
• CIJ advisory opinion: Recalls the request for an urgent advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the obligations of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory.
• End of the blockade: Request that Israel immediately lifts the blockade on Gaza and opens all passages to the borders to obtain aid deliveries.
• Responsibility: Exhorts Member States to take the necessary measures to ensure that Israel complies with its international legal obligations.
• United Nations and humanitarian staff: Calls for full respect for the work and immunity of United Nations personnel and humanitarian workers.
• Protection of humanitarian workers: Exhorts humanitarian organizations and the UN to ensure the safety of their staff.
• Medical neutrality: Underlines the duty to protect medical workers, health establishments and transport routes.

You can catch up with the full meeting by going to our cover live from the emergency session and today’s developments in Gaza, here.

Speaking by videoconference, UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said the country remains trapped in a political, humanitarian and prolonged development crisis.

“” Yemen is much more than confinement of a threat“He said.” The cost of inaction is high. »»

Mr. Grundberg highlighted the urgent need for progress towards a sustainable political solution, calling for all parties to show the desire to go beyond the current dead end.

Meanwhile, more than 17 million people, almost half of the Yemen population, are estimated at acute malnutrition.

Without sustained humanitarian support, six million more could face food insecurity levels, said Joyce Msuya, deputy secretary of the United Nations humanitarian wing (Ochha), speaking on behalf of the humanitarian affairs chief Tom Fletcher.

Economic tests

“” Yemeni citizens continue to marry the impact of an economy in free fall“Said Mr. Grundberg, calling for more international support to mitigate the humanitarian and economic difficulties they face.

Although it works in extremely difficult conditions, humanitarian efforts in Yemen continue, but the UN’s response remains limited and far from responding to the need for need, according to Ochha.

However, there are signs of progress. “There is a real range to progress in the economy,” said special envoy Hans Grundberg, indicating the reopening last May of a key route between Aden and Sanaa, closed for almost seven years, which has restored a faster and more direct path for civilians and commercial traffic.

“With confidence and good tools, there is still hope,” said the emergency coordinator in an emergency Joyce Msuya.

Fragile fronts

Marking a year since arbitrary detention by the Houthi rebels – or Ansar Allah – dozens of humanitarian workers, representatives of civil society and diplomatic staff, Mr. Grundberg has urged Security advice Members to use their “powerful voices” to exert maximum pressure on the group for the unconditional release of detainees.

While attacks on expedition to the Red Sea And countermeasures by Western forces have greatly decreased since an agreement to cease hostilities between the United States and Houthi leaders, the group has launched several recent attacks targeting Israel, in solidarity with the Palestinian cause in Gaza.

With multiple front lines still fragile and the risk of renewed battles still present, the UN continues to work on a roadmap to help Yemen to go beyond its divisions, to guarantee a complete ceasefire, to implement critical economic measures and to advance an inclusive political process.

The warning comes in the midst of increased violence and a worsening of food security which has 11 counties out of 13 in the state faced with levels of emergency hunger and 32,000 of these inhabitants faced with catastrophic hunger conditions, almost three times of previous estimates.

“” We see the devastating impact conflict on food security in South Sudan”Said Mary -llen McGroartyDirector of country of the world gastronomic program (Wfp) South Sudan.

“Conflicts are not content to destroy houses and means of subsistence, it Declies communities, cuts access to markets and sends prices for foodstuffs in the top“Said Ms. McGroarty.

Hunger at the country scale

In total, 7.7 million people through South Sudan will face acute food insecurity, representing more than half of the entire population. In addition, 2.3 million children in South Sudan faced malnutrition, an increase of 2.1 million at the start of the year.

Fao expects these figures to increase as the country is preparing to enter the lighter and humid season, which will further decrease food supplies and potentially aggravate the trip.

The agency noted that the counties in which violence was largely absent has experienced improvements in food insecurity due to the increase in agricultural production and humanitarian efforts. However, hunger continues.

Despite such challenges in progress, Meshack MaloThe country representing FAO in South Sudan, said these results are proof of “peace dividends”.

Conflict

South Sudan, the youngest country in the world, acquired its independence in 2011 and immediately fell into a brutal and devastating civil war which finally ended in 2018 thanks to a peace agreement between political rivals which was largely held.

However, recent political tensions and an increase in violent attacks, in particular in the state of the upper Nile, threaten to disentangle The peace agreement and plunging the nation into conflict.

“” South Sudan cannot afford to enter conflicts at this stage. He will already plunge vulnerable communities into severe food insecurityLeading to general hunger, “said Meshack Malo, representative of the FAO country in South Sudan.

Humanitarian difficulties

FAO has said that humanitarian access should be improved in order to treat hunger worsening.

The FAO report also stressed that strengthening peace and capacity is the only lasting solution for food insecurity in South Sudan.

“Long-term peace is essential, but at the moment, it is essential that our teams are able to access and distribute foods safely to families taken in conflict in the Haut-Nile, to bring them back from the edge and prevent famine,” said McGroarty.