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‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse
- UN News
With seven per cent of the population killed or injured since October 2023, the health crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating.
UN continues to call for timely Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon
- UN News
Operations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) north of the UN-monitored Blue Line in southern Lebanon have continued, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, UNIFIL.
Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals
- UN News
The UN’s top expert on human rights in Haiti on Friday condemned “intentional” attacks on hospitals, clinics and healthcare workers by armed gangs there, warning that medical facilities were already “near collapse”.
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system
- UN News
The UN Security Council is meeting in emergency session at 10am in New York on the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was called by Algeria, the leading voice for the Arab world on the Council which has just taken the gavel as president for the month of January. A senior official from the World Health Organization (WHO) briefed ambassadors alongside High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. App users can follow here.
Fresh evacuation orders and airstrikes highlight ongoing insecurity in Gaza
- UN News
Civilians are not safe anywhere in the Gaza Strip, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned on Thursday.
World News in Brief: Deaths on the Mediterranean, rights in Venezuela, new Security Council members take their seats
- UN News
Governments must do more to address the root causes of mass migration, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF’s Special Coordinator for the refugee and migrant response in Europe said on Thursday.
Gaza: ‘Every day without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy’
- UN News
The head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA again underlined the need for a ceasefire in Gaza in a statement posted on the social media platform X on Thursday.
UN chief condemns New Orleans truck attack
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Wednesday’s truck attack that killed at least 15 people in the city of New Orleans.
RC blog: 'It will take years to help people deal with the invisible consequences of war'
- UN News
Since he began his mandate as UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Matthias Schmale has seen for himself the devastating effects of the Russian invasion. In this account, written exclusively for UN News, Mr. Schmale shares his impressions of Ukraine, and the efforts of the UN System to support its citizens.
Report details bleak human rights situation in Ukraine nearly three years into Russian invasion
- UN News
A new report by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) highlights persistent suffering of civilians and prisoners of war (POWs) while Russia continues to expand its control over occupied territories.
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