News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 11 from 82)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 21 Rohingya refugees, including two teenage girls, have died after a boat carrying up to 70 people capsized in the Andaman Sea off the coasts of Malaysia and Thailand, according to UN agencies.
ReliefWeb News
āOur teams are responding, but insecurity and depleted supplies mean we are only reaching a fraction of those in need. Without safe access and urgent funding, operations risk grinding to a halt."
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Schools have been suspended for at least the next two days in the Philippines after the country was battered by Typhoon Fung-wong overnight, disrupting education for millions of children.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 117 million people have been displaced by war, violence and persecution, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, while highlighting how much their plight is tied to the growing climate crisis.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A month into the ceasefire in Gaza, families continue to slowly head back to their former homes and communities wherever access is allowed, the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, reported large-scale attacks and hostilities in Ukraine over the weekend which caused widespread civilian casualties and disrupted critical services across the country.
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Save the Children, funded by the Green Climate Fund and the Global Partnership for Education, has launched a $17 million project to strengthen climate resilience in education across the country.
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Amnesty International documents how, between 2020 and 2023, climate change-related drought, coupled with conflict and marginalization, forced thousands of people to relocate to camps for IDPs.
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Donors announced commitments of nearly CHF 110 million, a record level of investment into the IFRCās Disaster Response Emergency Fund, which enables rapid, locally-led humanitarian response.
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New waves of destruction of Ukraineās energy system, already stretched to its limit, place millions of people at risk of being left in the cold and dark this winter.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to worsen amid ongoing fighting that has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes and created acute hunger, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
ReliefWeb News
The numbers of people facing the emergency level of hunger has almost doubled since last year, driven by various conflicts ā and demonstrates the impact of a major shift in the Eastern DRC context.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations said on Thursday that Israeli authorities have rejected more than 100 requests to bring relief materials into Gaza since the ceasefire began nearly a month ago.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
To South Sudan, where aid teams warn that an already severe food and nutrition crisis could get worse without urgent humanitarian relief.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Around 2.2 million Cubans remain in dire need of assistance across the eastern provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, and Guantanamo as the after effects of Hurricane Mellisa continue, UN aid workers said on Wednesday.
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The 30th UN climate summit unfolds amid worsening climate disasters that are displacing millions of children, disrupting education, and endangering their health and safety.
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The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report projects that over half of the population will face crisis or worse levels of hunger during the 2026 lean season.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Any transition in Gaza must uphold unity with the West Bank and a two-State solution between Israelis and Palestinians, the UN Secretary-General said in Doha on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
New analysis of hunger and malnutrition in war-torn Sudan has revealed sharp contrasts along conflict lines, three UN agencies reported on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Food is slowly returning to the shelves in Gaza but supplies are still desperately inadequate, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, as they issued fresh calls for wider access and continued financial support.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN humanitarian relief chief, Tom Fletcher, has sounded the alarm over rising violence in the occupied West Bank, where attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians and their property continue to escalate.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than 1.5 million Jamaicans have been impacted by the devastation resulting from Hurricane Melissa, many losing their homes and livelihoods.
ReliefWeb News
The report showed an unprecedented 41,763 such abuses against children in conflict last year, a 30% increase from 2023 ā the previous highest year since records began ā and about 70% more than in 2022.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN teams rushed to northern Afghanistan on Monday after a powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck overnight, just two months after a massive quake devastated the east of the country. Details are still emerging from the latest emergency where initial reports indicate at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Some six million people have been affected by the category five hurricane which swept across the Caribbean last week, prompting UN agencies to scale up relief operations to safeguard livelihoods and reduce further losses.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In its latest update from Gaza, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that access to food improved in early October, especially in southern governorates.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Sudanās hunger crisis has deepened further, with new UN-backed analysis confirming that famine is underway in parts of Darfur and Kordofan, where fighting and sieges have cut off entire communities from food and aid.
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Another massive earthquake in Afghanistan forced children to flee their homes in the middle of the night and caused at least 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries, said Save the Children.
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Given the state of people who escaped and made it barely alive to Tawila, itās clear they are in urgent need of medical and nutritional care, psychosocial assistance, shelter, water and general aid.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UNās top aid official in Ukraine expressed concern on Friday about ācontinuous attacksā on energy production sites and distribution facilities.