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DR Congo: Ebola outbreak still needs massive funding boost to contain deadly spread – OCHA, WHOSuper El Niño already causing more misery in South Sudan: WFPBelarus criminal justice system weaponized to crush dissent, says Human Rights Council

‘Alarming increase’ in enforced disappearances, warns GuterresSouth Sudan: UNICEF reaches communities in Jonglei State cut off by warGaza: Another strike on UNRWA school sheltering displaced families

Gains in tackling HIV/AIDS are being held back because people’s human rights are being ignored, warns UNAIDS5.5 billion people have internet access in 2024, says UN’s telecoms agencyWages are recovering after negative shift in 2022, reports UN International Labour Organization

Parts of North Gaza have been under siege for more than 50 days: UNRWALebanon ceasefire deal: displaced communities start to return homeInternational Criminal Court Prosecutor seeks arrest of Myanmar’s top general

UN rights chief pushes for Lebanon ceasefire deal – OHCHRSudan: first WFP food trucks reach Zamzam famine campFAO warns over extremely critical hunger in strife-hit DRC

One woman killed every 10 minutes by their intimate partners or other family members #NoExcuse: UN Women, UNODCUN’s Tedros alert over stricken Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza: WHOTalks begin in Busan to clinch a deal on plastics pollution: UNEP

Deadliest year for humanitarian workers, says UN emergency relief chiefLebanon: UN peacekeeping force reports rocket strike injuriesCOP29: Wealthy nations mull $250 billion climate finance assistance deal

Acute hunger stalks one in four people in DR Congo, warn UN humanitariansCOP29 countdown: Failure on climate finance ‘not an option’, says GuterresMiddle East update: ICC arrest warrant for Israeli PM

In the 2050s, eight times as many children globally will be exposed to heatwaves – UNICEFSudan: Rape and criminality stalk communities uprooted by warGaza: US delegation vetoes new Security Council draft resolution

Lebanon war: ‘Renewed intensity’ of exchanges of fire across Blue Line, warns UNIFILGaza: UN health agency alert for stricken hospital in besieged northHong Kong sentencing of pro-democracy activists in UN rights office spotlight 

At least 16 children killed or injured in Ukraine every week: UNICEFGaza: Condemnation for deadly strike on apartment blockLebanon crisis: Culture experts meet in call for stronger safeguards: UNESCO

1,000 days into Ukraine war, winter poses critical challenge for millionsIn Gaza: aid deliveries have reached a ‘low point’, displacement soaring: OCHAAt COP29 climate talks, governments, industry must stop ‘lip-service’ to methane: UNEP

COP29 news: UN’s Guterres appeals for ‘robust’ net zero plansTorture is never justified, says UN human rights chiefIn Gaza: aid is still blocked from reaching desperate communities in the north: OCHA

#COP29 renewable energy transition must not be a ‘stampede of greed’, warns UN chiefLebanon’s displaced are exhausted and face constant danger: UNHCRGaza: Markets are ‘in decay’, warn WFP, OCHA

Dead bodies lie in northern Gaza’s streets and people beg for bread: UNRWACOP29 update: Time is not on our side to save planet from climate crisis, says UN chiefUkraine braces for grim winter with power shortages a daily reality, says UNHCR

COP29: UN envoy calls for countries to agree on new climate financing dealLebanon’s food insecurity ‘set to worsen’ amid ongoing conflict: WFPSouth Sudan election delay offers time for democracy to take root: top UN official

Sudan’s displaced have endured ‘unimaginable suffering, brutal atrocities’: UNHCRUN’s rights chief Volker Türk demands justice for violations in Gaza and IsraelClimate crisis: Samoa is facing a plastic tide, warns top rights expert

Ukraine nuclear security situation ‘highly challenging’ warns UN atomic watchdog chiefMyanmar’s Rakhine state is ‘a famine in the making’: UNDPCountries pledge to tackle childhood violence affecting one billion youngsters: WHO 

The war in Lebanon has reached a ‘critical point’ with more than 3,000 confirmed dead: OCHAIn Gaza, specialist newborn care has been decimated, warns UNICEFRise in Afghan opium production reflects hardships, despite Taliban ban: UNODC

Gaza’s polio vaccination campaign in north nears targetMore than two billion people in cities face 0.5C rise warns UN HabitatWHO publishes first list of ‘top pathogens’ requiring new vaccines

First famine, now cholera and dengue fever surge hits war-torn SudanGaza: polio vaccination successes achieved despite deadly weekend airstrikesWest Bank: mobile health clinics provide a lifeline, says UNFPA

Gaza: polio vaccination campaign to resume in shattered north UNRWALebanon war sees 50,000 displaced in a matter of days UNOCHAMpox update from WHO for DR Congo and region

‘Catastrophic’ hunger persists in multiple countries, warn food agenciesIn Lebanon, aid teams tackle obstacles faced by pregnant women impacted by warSudan: nearly 120,000 displaced by conflict in Al-Jazirah state

Top UN Middle East negotiator condemns deadly strike on Beit Lahiya in northern GazaBelarus: Engagement with UN rights system at historic low, warns expert  UN migration agency IOM expands its appeal to battle the mpox outbreak in Africa. 

We cannot replace ‘vital lifeline’ of UNRWA, insist partner UN agenciesSudan: 11 million now internally displaced, warns UN migration agencyHealthy diet recommendations to take away from WHO and FAO

Greenhouse gases surged to new highs in 2023In Gaza, no let-up in Israel’s military offensiveFrance should reverse hijab sports ban, say independent rights experts

In Gaza, children are dying while waiting for medical evacuation, UNICEF revealsSudan’s humanitarian crisis continues to spiral as aid is blockedAttacks continue against UN peacekeepers on Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel

‘Crunch time’ for reducing carbon emissions says new UN reportThe war between Israel and Hezbollah threatens to push Lebanon ‘off a humanitarian cliff’Marking UN Day, Guterres says hope for the future means “all countries working as one”

UN agency UNRWA targeted again in Gaza as fighting postpones polio campaign in the northPercentage of women killed in conflict zones doubles year-on-yearRights experts demand clarification from Russia following reported death of Ukrainian journalist

North Gazans just ‘waiting to die’ as Israeli bombardment continues: UNRWALebanon: UN rights chief slams deadly strike near major Beirut hospitalWFP reaches one million people this year across crisis-wracked Burkina Faso

Israel still preventing aid missions to northern Gaza, UNRWA reportsUN chief calls for swift probe into the killing of two opposition figures in MozambiqueWHO supports South Sudan in the face of severe flooding

Many Gazans hope Hamas leader’s death will end conflict: UNICEFLebanon: Peacekeepers pledge to stay, doing ‘whatever they can to help’West Bank Palestinians facing deadly ‘war-like tactics’, warns OCHA 

Lebanon: Cholera fears for communities uprooted by warRisk of famine remains high across the entire Gaza StripUNDP poverty and conflict report 

Lebanon crisis: Essential services in south close to collapseOn World Food Day, aid coordination office warns that women and girls suffer most in conflict settingsUN human rights office, OHCHR, urges halt to execution of two men

Lebanon crisis: UN Human Rights office calls for probe into Israeli strikeHistoric drought in Southern Africa leaves millions facing hunger: WFPTwo billion women without access to social protection, says UN Women

Gaza: School set for polio vaccine campaign hit in overnight strike, says UNRWAUN peacekeepers update after Israeli tank ‘breach’ A surge in new disease outbreaks raises risks of a new pandemic

Myanmar is spiralling, warns UN chief in peace call to ASEAN nationsMiddle East sees worsening violence300 million children a year are victims of online abuse 

Lebanon crisis: health workers and facilities targeted or hit, warns UN OCHANorth Gaza aid missions impeded or denied, say UN humanitariansMore than 370 million girls and women globally raped or sexually assaulted: UNICEF 

Lebanon on verge of all-out war, warns UN chief,Northern Gaza: No end to hell, warns head of UNRWAEnd ‘collective amnesia’ over COVID-19, says UN health agency WHORefugee agency awards top honour to campaigning nun in Brazil

Fears grow that Lebanon may become another Gaza, warn UN aid agenciesDR Congo still in the grip of violence including a rise in sexual slavery, warns UN’s TürkHurricane Milton gathers off Florida coastline: WMO

UN’s Guterres calls for peace in Gaza, one year since war eruptedLebanon: UN refugee agency chief urges global support amid ‘overwhelming need’Glaciers suffer largest melt in 50 years, warns WMO

Lebanon: Desperate scenes at Syrian border after Israeli airstrikesNuclear legacy in Marshall Islands in spotlight Human Rights Council WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use

Victims of deadly Lebanon escalation describe fleeing ‘total destruction’In Ukraine, aid teams report that another apartment block has been hit by Russian shelling in the city of KharkivMore justice is needed for people of African descent who’ve died in police custody, human rights chief Türk underlines. 

Middle East escalation: UN human rights chief adds voice to calls for peaceAt least 700,000 displaced in Haiti, half are children, says UN migration agencyGlobal immunization coverage remains below pre-pandemic levels: WHO

UN chief ‘extremely concerned’ over Lebanon escalationUkrainian prisoners of war tortured at scale by Russian captors, says UN Human Rights officeBrazil eliminates elephantiasis as a public health problem WHO

Lebanon crisis: over one million people flee deadly escalationAlgerian court urged to reverse ‘abusive sentence’ against poetCondemnation for Ukraine hospitals attacks: OCHA 

Lebanon crisis: ‘This is just the beginning’ say those impacted by deadly escalationHaiti’s “senseless criminality” responsible for thousands of killings: UN rights chiefSexual violence in Sudan’s affects millions of women and girls: UN Women

Lebanon crisis: 90,000 displaced in last 72 hours, warns UNHCRUN human rights chief sounds alarm over Sudan’s El FasherUkraine’s children face a freezing winter amid ongoing energy strikes

UNHCR scales up support as Lebanon’s Syrians head homeTop ministers demand urgent action at UNGA to end Sudan crisisUkraine war: Children among victims of latest attacks on power plant city, say UN humanitarians

Lebanon escalation is worst in 18 years, warns UNICEFSudan famine must not be forgotten by world leaders, says WFPMyanmar military has ‘doubled down on repression’, Human Rights Council hears