News headlines for “Aid”, page 42
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.
‘Syria simply cannot withstand another wave of instability,’ Security Council hears
- UN News
A senior UN official has warned against the impact of regional escalation on Syria as the country continues on the path to political transition following the overthrow of the Assad regime last December and nearly 14 years of devastating civil war.
Afghan women face near total social, economic and political exclusion
- UN News
In the past decade, the UN has bemoaned the chronically low level of participation by Afghan women and girls in decision-making bodies and in secondary and higher education.
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