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Guterres highlights ‘hope through action’ for 2025, amid continuing turmoil
- UN News
The world continues to grapple with unprecedented challenges but there are reasons for cautious optimism in 2025 - on a long-awaited Gaza ceasefire, climate action, tackling inequaity and harnessing AI for the public good - Secretary-General António Guterres insisted on Wednesday.
World News in Brief: North Gaza under siege, aid to millions in Syria, tensions in Mozambique
- UN News
The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Tuesday reported further attacks on displacement shelters in Gaza which have been ongoing since 9 January.
Haiti: spiralling gang violence has left more than one million displaced
- UN News
Surging gang violence in Haiti has caused a threefold rise in the number of people uprooted from their homes in a year, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday, in a call for “sustained humanitarian assistance right now to save and protect lives”.
Syria emergency: Four children a day killed by leftover explosives
- UN News
Syria’s lethal legacy of landmines and other explosives left over from years of conflict has led to the deaths of over 100 children in the last month alone, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, calling on the international community to urgently support country-wide demining projects.
First Person: Syrian migrant shipwreck survivor vows to reconstruct shattered country
- UN News
Syrian refugee Doaa Al Zamel’s harrowing tale of surviving a deadly shipwreck brought the horrors of fleeing war to a worldwide audience when it was told in the book “A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea” in 2017.
Guterres to conduct solidarity visit to Lebanon
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres will travel to Lebanon later this week for a solidarity visit with the country and its people, his Spokesperson announced on Monday during his daily briefing from New York.
World News in Brief: Solidarity with Ukraine, Haiti earthquake victims remembered, funding for Sudan healthcare
- UN News
The UN’s top aid official has travelled to Ukraine where he’s expressed his solidarity with the country’s people, who continue to come under attack from Russian forces.
Al Jazeera ban must be lifted, rights experts urge Palestinian Authority
- UN News
Top independent human rights experts urged the Palestinian authorities on Monday to end its widely criticized ban on the broadcaster Al Jazeera and ensure that all journalists, local or international, can work freely and safely in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Top humanitarian official issues ceasefire appeal during visit to Gaza City
- UN News
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory called on Sunday for an end to the war in Gaza to ensure a better future for children there and the entire region.
Syria has real opportunity to ‘move from the darkness to the light’
- UN News
Syrians have high expectations for their country, and a strong desire for people from across the social spectrum to come together and forge a new constitution, which must begin with an inclusive “national dialogue”.
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