News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 69)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Amid the destruction of the Second World War, nations responded to the danger of hunger and malnutrition by creating the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 16 October 1945. The UN agency celebrates this achievement as World Food Day every year on its birthday, recognizing the work of all those who are committed to ensuring food for everyone. Weâll be bringing you the highlights live from FAO throughout the day. UN News app users can follow coverage here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As a fragile ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip, UN aid teams are intensifying efforts to deliver urgently needed assistance.
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UNICEF estimates that 132 water sources have been destroyed, leaving families without access to safe water and handwashing facilities. The conditions are ripe for outbreaks of acute watery diarrhea.
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This marks the highest figure ever recorded in the country and represents a 36 per cent increase since the end of 2024. Nearly two thirds of new displacements have occurred outside Port-au-Prince.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 14 million people could face severe hunger by the end of the year, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Wednesday, as slashed humanitarian funding threatens six of its most critical operations.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN relief chief on Wednesday urged Israel and Hamas to honour their agreement to return deceased hostages and allow aid at scale into Gaza, warning that it should not be used as âa bargaining chipâ amid reports of new civilian killings and extrajudicial executions.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Over 212,000 Afghan children are now at risk of acute watery diarrhoea and other deadly waterborne diseases, according to the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF).
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Save the Children is calling on donors to urgently increase funding for education, livelihoods, and improved security in the camps to address the desperation driving dangerous sea journeys.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Around $70 billion will be needed to reconstruct Gaza and make it safe after two years of war, UN development experts said on Tuesday, while aid agencies reported that far too little aid is getting in to meet the needs of desperate Palestinians.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Russian drones hit a âclearly markedâ UN convoy on Tuesday which was bringing desperately needed aid to a war-torn frontline town in southern Ukraine.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Israel announced late on Tuesday that it will limit the flow of aid to Gaza, accusing Hamas of breaching the ceasefire agreement by returning only four of the bodies of deceased hostages so far.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
With the end of the year fast approaching, humanitarians are urging donors to step up support for their operations which remain underfunded due to brutal cuts to aid budgets.
ReliefWeb News
The crisis in Haiti is marked by an economy that has been in steady decline for several years and attacks by armed gangs that have led to massive population displacements.
ReliefWeb News
Armed clashes are occurring on a scale not seen since a cessation of hostilities was signed in 2017, with civilians bearing the brunt of human rights violations and displacements.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the UN Secretary-General on Monday welcomed the release of all living hostages from Gaza, aid agencies said that lifesaving relief supplies are now flowing at scale into the shattered enclave.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter â a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall threatening to stall it.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 214 civilians were killed and almost 1,000 injured in Ukraine last month, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission for the country (HRMMU) said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As displaced Gazans jammed the main route leading north on Friday after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas reportedly came into effect, UN aid teams repeated their call to open all crossings into the devastated enclave to prevent famine spreading.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly four million people across Africaâs vast semi-arid Sahel region have been uprooted by a volatile mix of conflict, hunger and climate change, the UN warned on Friday, describing an unfolding protection and survival crisis that is pushing families to flee repeatedly.
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Hundreds of thousands of children have been forced to flee their schools and homes in Mindanao after a 7.4 magnitude quake shook the province and triggered tsunami warnings, Save the Children said.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Gazans and Israelis celebrated the news that a potential ceasefire deal had been reached between the Hamas political leadership and Israel, UN aid agencies on Thursday underscored their readiness to inundate the famine-hit enclave with relief supplies, while urging the immediate release of all hostages.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As people celebrated across Gaza and Israel at the news of an agreement that could hasten the end of the two-year war, UN aid teams on Thursday insisted that they were ready to deliver humanitarian relief supplies into the shattered enclave at scale. We'll be covering all news developments across the UN system throughout the day. UN News app users can follow live coverage here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 20 civilians were reportedly killed this week in attacks targeting a mosque and the last hospital in El Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur state in Sudan.
ReliefWeb News
The study reinforces the confirmation by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) of famine and adds the clearest evidence yet of how child malnutrition has evolved during the war.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has almost doubled in the past year, with 680,000 now uprooted from their homes, a new UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) Child Alert report found.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General has welcomed the announcement from US President Donald Trump that Israel and Hamas have âsigned offâ on the first phase of his 20-point peace plan, following days of intensive indirect negotiations in Egypt.
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More than 2,200 schools in Cebu were damaged or destroyed in the September earthquake, with debris strewn across playgrounds, roads and outbuildings, and at least 1,800 classrooms are totally unusable.
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âThe need for a ceasefire could not be more urgent. Since Saturday morning, at least 14 children have reportedly been killed, as intense bombing and shelling by Israel continue to hit Gaza."
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Since the conflict began in 2017, more than 1.3 million people have been displaced, caught between insecurity, loss and repeated upheaval. All 17 districts of Cabo Delgado have been directly affected.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the Gaza-Israel war enters its third year, sparked by Hamas-led terror attacks on Israel, the UN is appealing for the release of all hostages, an immediate ceasefire and an aid surge to alleviate Palestiniansâ suffering â all as talks on a US-driven peace plan continue in Egypt.