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UN representatives across agencies brief the press on the earthquake response in Venezuela. UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs Jens Laerke's remarks that "the international humanitarian system is mo...
Since the ceasefire was announced in October 2025, 265 Palestinian children have been killed across #Gaza—one child, on average, every single day for more than eight months.
Briefing journalists in...
The head of the UN’s atomic energy agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, welcomed on Thursday the signing of an initial #Iran - US memorandum aimed at ending the war, before proposing “to sit down” with b...
@UNICEF's new "Children’s Climate Risk Report 2026" raises alarms: "Almost every child in the world is now exposed to at least one climate hazard, such as floods, droughts, storms or extreme heat,"...
Speaking from the #democraticrepublicofthecongo, Bruno Michon of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) told reporters in Geneva that "trust is not a secondary ...
In #Haiti, where gang violence and rape has forced 790,000+ women and girls to flee their homes, a moment of hope — the opening of State-supported safe houses.
@unwomen calls on the internationa...
The Middle East conflict continues to reverberate around the world, warns the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
- In Somalia, 2.5 million won't be able to afford a basic food basket.
- In Afghanistan...
Imran Riza, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Lebanon, details a recent visit to meet with displaced people in the city of Tyre, where some families have been forced to move five times.
Human rights do not expire with age. But many older persons face challenges in fully enjoying their human rights, including due to stereotyping, stigmatization and marginalization. In less than 3 ...
Despite ongoing U.S. mediation efforts, exchanges of fire between Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli military are continuing in southern Lebanon. UNIFIL peacekeepers remain on the ground despite in...
El Niño conditions are developing and are set to influence global temperature and rainfall patterns, increasing the risk of extreme weather over the coming months.
"The gaps are unprecedented and country by country we are making brutal choices about who to reach."
Watch@WorldFoodProgramme's Rania Dagash-Kamara, Assistant Executive Director for Partnerships an...
Ebola is "a disease that you get when you care for someone, for your husband or your partner or your child or your mother,” reports @who representative Anaïs Legand in Geneva.
Women are more likely than men to die during an #Ebola outbreak. Not because the disease is more deadly for women once they are infected - but because women are more likely to be infected in the fi...
UN WHO’s Dr. Anne Ancia reporting from Bunia, Ituri, in eastern DR Congo, on the fast-spreading Bundibugyo virus, a species of #Ebola virus for which there are currently no vaccines or therapeutics.
UN aid teams warn that at least 6 million people, including 2 million children, are going days without enough food in #Somalia
In #Ukraine, a UN convoy delivering essential aid was attacked twice while on mission in a frontline area. Since 24 February 2022, attacks on healthcare have caused 239 deaths and 991 injuries, wit...
@UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday that some 70 children have been killed in the occupied West Bank since January 2025 – at least one on average every week – and ...
The past winter was the deadliest for women and girls in #Ukraine since the first year of the full-scale Russian invasion, Sabine Friezer Gunes, @unwomen representative in Ukraine told reporters.
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Dr Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the UN World Health Organization @who’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, told reporters on Tuesday that some 10,000 children in the devastated #Ga...