UNICEF providing aid for children caught up in Syria prison siege
The fighting forced nearly 45,000 people in the area to flee, mostly women and children, UNICEF said. Some have been displaced several times, having escaped...
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In central Sahel, ‘needs are growing faster than generosity’
The UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) led by Mr. Griffiths, and its partners, will need close to $2 billion for the humanitarian response in these...
Griffiths to Security Council: ‘Your responsibility is not over’ to Syrian people
The humanitarian affairs chief said it was essential to scale up early recovery programmes – aimed at addressing needs that arise during the humanitarian phase...
‘We cannot abandon the people of Afghanistan’ Guterres tells Security Council
With Afghanistan “hanging by a thread” six months after the Taliban takeover, the world cannot abandon the country now – for the sake of its...
Bachelet: ‘We need to push back against hatred’
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned on Wednesday that “racism and xenophobia are rising sharply”, highlighting violent attacks on Jewish sites and antisemitic incidents reported in many countries. “Antisemitic...
Tonga tsunami: ‘Kids were screaming as if a war was upon us’
Suddenly they heard explosions from the volcano that were so loud and so intense that they could be heard and felt over 800 kilometres away...
Military solution for Syria war remains ‘an illusion’: Pedersen
Mr. Pederson also said that Syrians continue to suffer deeply....
WHO: New guidance on treating complications due to unsafe abortion
To address this gap, the UN system for human reproduction research, HRP, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners, published new data on the issue,...
More than 50 million worldwide hit by urban conflict
Pointing to scores of schools and healthcare facilities damaged during fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza last year, he remembered that nearly 800,000...
January will ‘almost certainly’ shatter records for civilian casualties in Yemen
Mr. Grundberg and Mr. Gressley also reiterate the UN Secretary-General’s condemnation of air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led Coalition on 21 January against a...