News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 15 from 73)
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The UN Security Council is meeting on the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where fresh Israeli evacuation orders have uprooted tens of thousands amid relentless bombardment claiming hundreds of civilian lives in recent weeks â many of them children. âFood is running out. Those seeking it risk being shot. People are dying trying to feed their families,â UN relief chief Tom Fletcher has just told ambassadors. Follow our real-time updates and key moments through our live UN Meetings Coverage page. UN News App users can join here.
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Conditions in Gaza have reached an unspeakable level of devastation with children paying the highest price, top UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday, warning of soaring child deaths, starvation and a shattered health system amid continuing bombardment and displacement.
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MSF is calling for the protection of medical workers and health facilities, and to ensure a coordinated humanitarian response in places experiencing a surge of needs due to the arrival of IDPs.
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The pace and scale of returns are overwhelming already fragile support systems, despite determined efforts of UN agencies and local authorities and extensive public practical support to the returnees.
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Intensifying clashes in Sudanâs Kordofan region between rival militaries have killed hundreds and wounded many more in recent days, warned the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) on Tuesday.
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Nearly 900 desperate and hungry Gazans have been killed in recent weeks trying to fetch food, with most deaths linked to private aid hubs run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
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Since the start of operation âIron Wallâ, Israeli security forces have issued demolition orders for about 1,400 homes. These large-scale demolitions violate Israelâs obligations as the occupying power.
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About 20 million infants missed at least one dose of DTP-containing vaccine last year, including 14.3 million âzero-doseâ children who never received any vaccine - four million more than 2024's target.
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The head of UN child rights agency UNICEF has called for Israel to review its rules of engagement in Gaza after seven children were killed while waiting for water at a distribution point.
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Escalating violence, displacement and heavy rains are deepening the needs of civilians caught in the war in Sudan, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Monday.
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The campaign aims to boost population immunity in high-risk areas and prevent further spread of the virus by administering novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) to children across 12 governorates.
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The fuel crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point, threatening to bring all humanitarian operations to a halt and endangering the lives of everyone reliant on aid inside the enclave, UN agencies warned in a powerful joint statement on Saturday.
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A chaotic wave of returnees from Iran and Pakistan is straining Afghanistanâs already fragile capacity under Taliban rule and threatening broader regional stability, said the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday.
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Sudanâs brutal civil war is pushing more children towards the brink of starvation, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) reported on Friday, highlighting a sharp and alarming rise in severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases across the country.
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Humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip âhave never been higherâ while the ability to assist the population has ânever been more constrained,â a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday in New York.
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The alarming levels of acute malnutrition recorded during the post-harvest season, combined with constrained access
to treatment, raise serious concerns for children in the July-September lean season.
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Alarming 46 per cent rise in children diagnosed with malnutrition across five Darfur states underscores urgent need for access and aid across conflict-affected region.
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Overcrowded shelters, food shortages and strained health services are pushing IDPs to the brink. MSF is helping 3,700 people a week â an increase of 40% since before this wave of displacement began.
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Devastating funding cuts from international donors are hitting countries hardest affected by HIV â but many are showing remarkable resilience and determination to keep progress alive.
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The head of the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep dismay over the âunconscionableâ killing of children during an aid distribution in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday.
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Material deprivation is a stark indicator of poverty and includes a lack of access to nutritious food, appropriate clothing, heating at home, and educational materials, among other essentials.
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Fuel supplies have been entirely restricted from entering Gaza since Israeli authorities imposed a total siege on 2 March, putting the entire humanitarian response at risk of grinding to a halt.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As scores of people â including medical staff and their families â have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources.
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The deadly flash floods in central Texas that claimed more than 100 lives over the July Fourth weekend in the United States have underscored the devastating power of this fast-onset hazard â and the critical challenge of ensuring early warnings reach vulnerable populations, even in the dead of night.
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Yemen continues to face a dire humanitarian crisis, driven by acute hunger, economic collapse, and regional instability, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday.
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WHO supported the authorities to develop public health situation analysis, provide health services to those affected, assess needs and provide safe drinking water to the displaced and their hosts.
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Returnees, including pregnant women, mothers with infants and unaccompanied children, arrive with little more than they can carry. Many are in desperate need of medical care, food and shelter.
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As relentless attacks continue to damage homes and communities across Ukraine, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has now helped repair over 40,000 war-damaged homes â marking a major step in helping displaced families return and recover.
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UN humanitarians have warned that the catastrophic conditions in Gaza are worsening, as tents, schools, homes and medical facilities come under attack, and fuel supplies run out.
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The United Nations Secretary-General has expressed deep sorrow over the deadly floods in Texas that reportedly killed at least 80 people over the holiday weekend, including more than two dozen children at a summer camp.