News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 78 from 78)
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As hundreds of Venezuelans continue to pour into neighbouring countries due to social and political upheaval at home, the heads of the United Nations refugee and migration agencies called for greater international support to meet the most basic needs of the displaced.
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The refugee crisis in Bangladesh sparked by the mass exodus of people from Myanmar almost a year ago risks creating a âlost generationâ of Rohingya children who lack the life skills they will need in future, the United Nations Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) has warned.
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After a surge in hostilities in Afghanistan over the past weeks, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomed on Monday the Governmentâs announcement of a conditional ceasefire for the Eid al-Adha holiday and called on warring parties to use this âmomentumâ to put an end to the conflict.
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Funding for humanitarian operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) is at an âall-time lowâ, threatening the delivery of life-saving aid to people in the West Bank and Gaza, the United Nations warned on Friday.
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Remembering 22 colleagues killed by the âhorrific terrorist attackâ on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad 15 years ago, Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres has called on all staff to pay tribute to the fallen by âcontinuing their mission,â and keep going to âdangerous places with the aim of making them saferâ.
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The city of Ghazni in Afghanistan is still too dangerous for aid workers to reach, after a week of âintenseâ fighting and reports that traumatized children are turning up at hospitals looking for their parents, UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, said on Friday.
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Remembering all the humanitarians killed in the line of duty just ahead of World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations relief chief on Friday, renewed the call for civilians and aid workers everywhere to be better protected.
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A lack of funds means that the new school term for over half a million Palestinian students could be cut short after just one month, says UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refuge
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After days of intense fighting for the Afghan city of Ghazni, south-west of Kabul, the United Nations Secretary-General and the Head of the UN mission in the country (UNAMA) have denounced the toll that the almost 20-year conflict has taken on civilians, and called on warring parties to lay down their arms and seek a political solution to the conflict.
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The decision by Israel to reopen the only functional commercial crossing point into Gaza which has been closed to most deliveries for weeks, has been welcomed by the United Nations Secretary-General.
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After seeing first-hand the complexities of the Ebola response in the conflict-affected region of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called for âfree and secureâ access to the disease-affected people.
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UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres on Thursday condemned an air strike by pro-Yemini Government coalition forces, which killed scores of children who were on board a bus travelling through a busy market area in the northern province of Saada.
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Aid access to embattled Syrians may soon improve following recent military gains by the Government, but the war âcannot be allowed to go to Idlibâ, the head of the UNâs Humanitarian Task Force said on Thursday.
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The Secretary-Generalâs Special Envoy for Burundi, Michel Kafando, has called on the countryâs leaders to âseize the opportunityâ offered by the recent adoption of a new constitution, to create a new political environment that is âconducive to the consolidation of national unity and peaceâ.
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Despite a myriad of âlong-neglected social, economic and development needsâ, the Head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) on Wednesday said progress had been made towards recovery and stability in the battle-scarred country, and called for Iraqi political leaders to continue to âwork for national reconciliationâ through âinclusiveâ solutions.
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To avert hospital closures and raw sewage overflowing onto the streets of Gaza, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator on Wednesday called on Israeli authorities to allow UN-purchased emergency fuel back across the border of the Palestinian enclave.
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Following the magnitude 7 earthquake which rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok at the weekend, more than 130 aftershocks have been felt with some villages being turned into âghost townsâ, journalists at the UN in Geneva heard on Tuesday.
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Over a year after cholera broke out in Yemen, killing more than 2,000 people, the disease is back and spreading fast in the Houthi-held port city of Hudaydah; a target of continued air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition to regain control of the city.
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Following the magnitude 7 earthquake that hit Indonesia's East Lombok on Sunday, the United Nations Secretary-General said he was âsaddened by the devastating loss of life, injuries and damage causedâ, in a statement issued on Monday.