News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 14 from 69)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
With the humanitarian sector āunder-funded, overstretched, and literally under attackā as crises continue in Gaza, Sudan and beyond, international support is needed more than ever, the UNās top aid official said on Wednesday in Geneva.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Almost 4.5 million maternal, stillborn and newborn deaths were recorded in 2023. What if there was a clear path to saving 83 percent of these people? To saving 3.7 million mothers, unborn children and babies annually?
ReliefWeb News
So far in 2025, at least 743 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, including 538 on the Central Mediterranean route. This remains the deadliest known migration route in the world.
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The food security situation is expected to worsen between September 2025 and February 2026, with about 5.38 million people likely to be classified in IPC Phase 3 or above.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Gazaās health system is at breaking point, overwhelmed time and again by scores of people killed or injured near aid distribution sites, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A senior UN official has warned against the impact of regional escalation on Syria as the country continues on the path to political transition following the overthrow of the Assad regime last December and nearly 14 years of devastating civil war.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In the past decade, the UN has bemoaned the chronically low level of participation by Afghan women and girls in decision-making bodies and in secondary and higher education.
ReliefWeb News
The study surveyed more than 5,000 refugee, displaced and host family households, finding that 58% are now experiencing severe hunger, with nearly half saying they have gone entire days without food.
ReliefWeb News
Two-thirds of the 70 million hectares affected by human-induced degradation ā more than 46 million ā is agricultural land. The study stresses urgent need to restore land and improve food security.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
After a weekend of massive strikes and counter-strikes between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the UN's human rights chief, Volker TĆ¼rk on Monday condemned the violence and echoed wider calls for a negotiated end to the attacks. Meanwhile in Gaza, aid workers report that mobile communications networks continue to be cut in the shattered enclave. We'll be covering these developments and more across the UN system and beyond today, thanks for joining us. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Facing the most severe funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian aid, UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Monday announced a āhyper-prioritisedā appeal for $29 billion to meet urgent global needs.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people have fled to neighbouring South Sudan, seeking refuge from escalating violence that has displaced 12.4 million people and plunged over half the Sudanese population into food insecurity.
ReliefWeb News
States that once championed disarmament are now considering withdrawing from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. This is not just a legal retreat on paper ā it risks endangering countless lives.
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Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali remain hotspots of highest concern, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has returned as a hunger hotspot to watch.
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Afghanistan is at a critical juncture in its fight against child and women malnutrition. Immediate action, backed by global, national, and community-level support, is essential to save lives.
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Sudanese refugees report serious human rights violations, including physical and sexual violence, arbitrary detention, and forced recruitment. About 60% have been separated from family members.
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Civilians in the Middle East have suffered repeated crises for decades and need respite from violence. ICRC urges all parties to respect International Humanitarian Law and protect the vulnerable.
ReliefWeb News
The report shows that one in five people ā around 1.17 million individuals ā are facing crisis or emergency levels of acute food insecurity, a slight improvement from the 1.65 million earlier this year.
ReliefWeb News
At least 2,680 people were killed between 1 January and 30 May, including 54 children, according to information verified by the UN. At least 957 others were injured and 316 kidnapped for ransom.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN agencies on Friday continue to stress they must be allowed to deliver aid in the Gaza Strip as famine looms and a telecommunications blackout threatens lifesaving operations.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As diplomatic efforts continue to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN development agency (UNDP) issued an appeal on Friday on behalf of people uprooted by the violence to help them rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
ReliefWeb News
A deadly mix of conflict, climate change and poverty has pushed 2.3 million under-fives in South Sudan into life-threatening acute malnutrition, with rates soaring just months after funding cuts.
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Severe malnutrition among children has surged across Somalia, with health facilities supported by ICRC seeing record admissions since the devastating drought two years ago.
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Khartoum State has experienced a rapid increase in cholera cases since May, with more than 16,000 cumulative cases and 239 deaths reported across the stateās seven localities.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
With 13.5 million people displaced by over 13 years of brutal civil conflict, Syria used to represent the largest displacement crisis in the world. This is no longer the case.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Two counties in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan are sliding into famine, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned after a new update was released on Thursday from the UN-partnered food security classification system, the IPC.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Yemen cannot endure more years of division, economic collapse and human suffering, the UNās top official on the crisis told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that ātime is not on our side.ā
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Meeting in emergency session on Thursday in New York, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
ReliefWeb News
In its new report, MSF exposes how the removal of search and rescue vessels from the Central Mediterranean is leaving people fleeing violence in Libya with no safe route to escape.
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The increase represents around a decade of year-on-year increases. The main drivers of displacement remain large conflicts and the continued failure to stop the fighting.