News Monitor
The disruptions to daily life and essential services are pushing the most vulnerable into greater insecurity, with severely limited options for safety and support.
Palestinians with disabilities face unbearable risks, including inescapable death and injuries, amid indiscriminate attacks, which have destroyed infrastructure and annihilated the possibility of aid.
Polio cases in these settings have more than doubled in the past five years, while routine childhood immunization has dropped to 70 per cent – well below the 95 per cent needed for community immunity.
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees need urgent access to food, shelter and medical attention after enduring the worst violence against their communities since 2017, Amnesty International said.
The security situation remains volatile despite ongoing peace negotiations, which is limiting humanitarian access to people in need of aid, especially in areas where non-state armed actors are present.
Conflict and instability continue to severely disrupt life in Syria, straining medical supply stocks and overwhelming the capacity of health workers. Pregnant women with complications are at high risk.
Among other advancements, the $37 million project will support the establishment of a climate and health surveillance system to predict outbreaks and surges of climate-sensitive diseases and conditions.
Having a significant number of children miss out on their second vaccine dose will seriously jeopardise efforts to stop the transmission of poliovirus in Gaza.
In 2023, the proportion of women killed in armed conflicts doubled compared to 2022. UN-verified cases of conflict-related sexual violence increased by 50 per cent.
One in five people has been uprooted in the past four weeks. More than 190,000 are living in 1,094 shelters across the country, in schools, community centres and other public institutions.
Families in Sudan are eating grass to survive in an escalating hunger crisis, with famine-levels of malnutrition spreading across half of Sudan’s 18 states, said Save the Children.
A new UN assessment estimates that poverty in the State of Palestine will rise to 74.3 percent in 2024, affecting 4.1 million people, including 2.61 million people who are newly impoverished.
The floods have affected 42 of South Sudan's 78 counties. Fifty-eight health facilities have been submerged in five counties and nearly 90 others are inaccessible, with about 15 main roads cut off.
In September, the reported death rate was 6.4 per cent among children due to malnutrition and medical complications. The situation is expected to deteriorate further with the onset of winter.
In September, the reported death rate was 6.4 per cent among children due to malnutrition and medical complications. The situation is expected to deteriorate further with the onset of winter.
More than 350 patients, including pregnant women and people who just underwent surgical operations, reported to be trapped inside the Indonesian, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals.
More than 350 patients, including pregnant women and people who just underwent surgical operations, reported to be trapped inside the Indonesian, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals.
A new ILO bulletin outlines the unprecedented devastation a year of war has wreaked on jobs, livelihoods and the economy at large in the occupied Palestinian territory.
A UN convoy including UNRWA successfully delivers aid to Lebanon for the first time since violence escalated there at the end of September, including enough to feed around 2,000 families for a week
New data reveals about 1.84 million people across Gaza Strip are experiencing extremely critical levels of acute food insecurity due to ongoing fighting, which has destroyed 70 percent of crop fields.
UNDP and Oxford's new research found that poverty rates in countries affected by conflict are nearly three times as high as compared to countries not affected by conflict.
Eighty percent of the record 163 million Africans facing acute food insecurity are in conflict-hit countries, including potentially 840,000 people confronting famine in Sudan, South Sudan, and Mali.