Global Issues
News headlines for “Aid”, page 29
Ukraine: Security Council hears of escalating attacks, diplomatic developments
- UN News
The UN Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, where intensified fighting continues, affecting new areas and prompting further displacement.
WHO warns of a health financing emergency
- UN News
The world is facing a health financing emergency, according to Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou, Director for Health Financing and Economics for the World Health Organization (WHO).
For too long, ‘unbound horrors’ have unfolded in Sudan
- UN News
Hostilities continue to escalate across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous.
Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease
- UN News
Death and suffering in Gaza are ever-present and the enclave's people now have little choice but to risk their lives to fetch aid supplies, UN agencies said on Friday.
World News in Brief: Global investment plunges, hurricane season in Haiti, rising cholera and hunger in South Sudan
- UN News
Global investment fell a full 11 per cent to $1.5 trillion last year – it’s a huge blow for developing nations, the UN trade agency, UNCTAD, said on Thursday.
UN warns of mounting humanitarian toll as Israel-Iran hostilities continue
- UN News
As deadly missile exchanges between Israel and Iran enter a second week, the United Nations is sounding alarm over the growing toll on civilians, warning of mass displacement and regional instability.
Gaza: As last fuel supplies run out, aid teams warn of catastrophe
- UN News
More than 100 days into Israel’s complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only “hours away” from shutting down.
Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges
- UN News
Almost 4.5 million maternal, stillborn and newborn deaths were recorded in 2023. What if there was a clear path to saving 83 percent of these people? To saving 3.7 million mothers, unborn children and babies annually?
UN rights office ‘horrified’ by deadly violence at Gaza food distribution sites
- UN News
As the pall of starvation hangs over Gaza, UN agencies have sounded the alarm over deadly violence at food distribution points, where over 400 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in recent weeks while trying to access desperately needed humanitarian aid.
UN relief chief calls for solidarity, with humanitarians ‘literally under attack’
- UN News
With the humanitarian sector “under-funded, overstretched, and literally under attack” as crises continue in Gaza, Sudan and beyond, international support is needed more than ever, the UN’s top aid official said on Wednesday in Geneva.
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