The funding announcement, made on Wednesday by the United States, brings total recent US humanitarian support channeled through the UN-coordinated system to $3.8 billion following an earlier $2 billion allocation announced in December. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the latest contribution, saying it “will allow humanitarians to reach millions of people in the most urgent … Read more
UN News spoke with Walker during a visit to the UN Headquarters, in New York, to present My Deepest Desirea newly published edition of Hara’s final work featuring Walker’s ink drawings and a new translation by Liza Dalby. Published posthumously after Hara’s suicide in 1951, My Deepest Desire is a poetic short story meditating on … Read more
Ramiz Alakbarov, UN’s top aid official in Occupied Palestinian Territory visited a dumping site in Gaza on Tuesday that continues receiving waste despite already exceeding capacity. This comes after Israeli authorities denied access to the Strip’s two landfills near areas where Israeli troops remain deployed. Disease risks grow Waste accumulating near shelters and residential areas … Read more
The UN food security agency warns that recycled plastics and alternative packaging materials can help reduce waste, but only if recycling systems are carefully managed to prevent harmful chemicals migrating into food. “Plastic waste is a growing global problem. Better and more effective recycling is fundamental and is part of the solution,” said Vittorio Fattori, … Read more
Ongoing conflict in the country’s east is driving mass displacement and pushing millions into crisis or emergency levels of hunger. Nearly 3.6 million people are at emergency levels of food security – one step from famine – while a further 22.9 million are in crisis. The situation is most severe in eastern provinces, where fighting … Read more
Independent studies by the agencies paint a picture of widening disparities that begin in childhood and continue into higher education, despite decades of global progress in school and university enrolment. An unequal report card Examining the relationship between economic inequality and children’s well-being in 44 OECD and high-income countries, the Unicef report found that rates … Read more
The repatriation effort, coordinated by Spanish authorities with support from WHOthe European Union, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and multiple governments, marked the end of an emergency operation that has gripped global health attention for weeks following an outbreak of Andes hantavirus aboard the vessel. As of Monday, WHO said there … Read more
“At a time when some powerful global actors are openly defying and even vilifying human rights, including through transnational repression, Mongolia’s positive commitment stands out,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said. However, concerns over corruption remain. One civil society representative told him, “corruption is the biggest bottleneck to the development of the … Read more
In a rare personal message addressed to the island’s residents on Saturday, Dr Tedros confirmed he would travel to the Spanish territory to oversee the disembarkation of nearly 150 passengers and crew, following a hantavirus outbreak on board that has claimed three lives. “It is not common for me to write directly to the people … Read more
The vessel arrived off the Canary Islands after weeks at sea at the center of an international public health response triggered by a hantavirus outbreak that has claimed three lives. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is leading a team in Tenerife, stressed that the risk to the wider public remains low. “This is not … Read more