Since the offensive began earlier this month, hundreds of people have been killed, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, with more than 60,000 others displaced again, many fearing…
Read more UN chief ‘shocked’ at harrowing death and destruction in north GazaThat day was in November 2023, around a month into the war in Gaza. Ala’a is among an estimated 155,000 pregnant women and new mothers in the Gaza…
Read more A letter from a mother in Gaza: Hardships, heartbreak and hopeThis follows Israeli airstrikes in southern suburbs of the city that targeted the leader of the Hezbollah armed group, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed, according to media reports.…
Read more Lebanon crisis: Guterres urges parties to ‘step back from the brink’Under shelling and gunfire, Esraa cradled her newborn son. As the war in Sudan broke out in April 2023, she was trying to reach a health clinic for…
Read more Health teams brave war conditions in Sudan to save newborn babiesThis year’s International Day for Clean air and Blue Skies, celebrated annually on 7 September, is focused on the theme ‘Invest in #CleanAirNow’ and highlights the economic, environmental…
Read more Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate changeHundreds of Gazan families have been queueing to await the turn of their child to receive a polio vaccination since early Sunday morning, in a campaign designed to…
Read more Gaza polio vaccinations gets underwayAs foreign troops suddenly withdrew, life for millions of Afghans, especially women and girls descended into chaos. “If I had left, a mother or a baby could have…
Read more Afghanistan: Meet the midwife who stayedMore than 80 people, including at least 13 police personnel, are said to have been killed in clashes between security forces and protesters, according to media reports. Authorities…
Read more Shocking violence in Bangladesh must stop: UN rights chiefThe Special Event entitled Keeping the SDG Promise: Pathways for Acceleration is taking place on the sidelines of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) now underway, aimed at…
Read more Sustainable development: ‘Be leaders and inspire’ UN deputy chief urges, as 2030 deadline nearsAccording to Government figures, the number of inmates are four times over the planned capacity, making the Philippines one of the most overcrowded penal systems in the world…
Read more First Person: Filipino elderly ex-prisoner’s joy of ‘sleeping and eating’WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists the Al-Ahli and Patient Friendly Hospitals in northern Gaza are the latest facilities unable to function due to fighting nearby. He…
Read more Gaza: WHO chief highlights health risks of latest evacuation ordersThe Secretary-General expressed his appreciation to Turkmenistan for hosting the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia in Ashgabat, and commended Turkmenistan’s generosity in granting citizenship…
Read more Guterres commends Turkmenistan’s ‘policy of neutrality’ amid troubled timesDisplacements in this Caribbean country have reached record levels, with nearly 600,000 people forced to leave their homes this year – double the number from last year. This…
Read more Haiti: Longing to live again, amid trauma of displacement“Every second, around four football fields of healthy land are degraded,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “The security, prosperity and health of billions of people rely on thriving…
Read more Stop ‘vandalising’ Earth and help the planet thrive, UN chief urgesWelcome to our live coverage of one of the most important speeches on climate change that António Guterres has made since becoming Secretary-General. We’re reporting live from the…
Read more UPDATING LIVE: Guterres issues hard-hitting call for climate actionMember countries of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), on the final day of the seventy-seventh World Health Assembly, adopted important amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR),…
Read more At World Health Assembly, countries agree on efforts to boost pandemic preparedness“Humanitarian facilities in Rafah are forced to close one after another…The flow of humanitarian aid supplies into Gaza, already insufficient to meet the soaring needs, has dropped by…
Read more Amid ongoing Israeli incursions into Gaza, aid facilities shut ‘one after another’“I am appalled and shocked by the terrifying news arriving from Kharkiv”, said Ms. Brown in a statement. “This afternoon, in broad daylight as people – despite all…
Read more Russian attack on Kharkiv shopping centre ‘utterly unacceptable’, says senior UN official“Once again, nearly half of the population of Rafah or 800,000 people are on the road,” Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini wrote in post on the social media platform X.…
Read more Gaza: Nearly 800,000 now displaced from RafahThe predominantly rural region of Androy has been beset by a series of humanitarian crises which have affected the most vulnerable people there, including mothers-to-be, however the delivery…
Read more First Person: Women in Madagascar too ashamed to seek help giving birth
