News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 33 from 92)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN Secretary-General AntĆ³nio Guterres has strongly condemned the Israeli strike on Thursday that hit the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip.
ReliefWeb News
With hundreds of deaths reported among civilians, at least 1,200 families have fled their homes. Hospitals are overwhelmed as medication runs out while shops have closed amid water and power cuts.
ReliefWeb News
Sudan's ongoing civil war has created the worldās largest and fastest-growing displacement, yet this crisis has been largely overshadowed by conflicts and political tensions elsewhere.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
New evacuation orders in Gaza issued by the Israeli military have uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians, amid ongoing bombardment, aid agencies have warned.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In violence-wracked Haiti, more than 5.7 million people are estimated to be food insecure, with many unable to meet their daily food needs.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The international community must support Afghanistan as it grapples with the staggering number of citizens returning from the region, a senior UN official has said.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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 ā many of them children. āFood is running out. Those seeking it risk being shot. People are dying trying to feed their families,ā 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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Intensifying clashes in Sudanās Kordofan region between rival militaries have killed hundreds and wounded many more in recent days, warned the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
Since the start of operation āIron Wallā, Israeli security forces have issued demolition orders for about 1,400 homes. These large-scale demolitions violate Israelās obligations as the occupying power.
ReliefWeb News
About 20 million infants missed at least one dose of DTP-containing vaccine last year, including 14.3 million āzero-doseā children who never received any vaccine - four million more than 2024's target.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A chaotic wave of returnees from Iran and Pakistan is straining Afghanistanās already fragile capacity under Taliban rule and threatening broader regional stability, said the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Sudanās brutal civil war is pushing more children towards the brink of starvation, the UN Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) reported on Friday, highlighting a sharp and alarming rise in severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases across the country.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip āhave never been higherā while the ability to assist the population has ānever been more constrained,ā a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday in New York.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
Overcrowded shelters, food shortages and strained health services are pushing IDPs to the brink. MSF is helping 3,700 people a week ā an increase of 40% since before this wave of displacement began.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Devastating funding cuts from international donors are hitting countries hardest affected by HIV ā but many are showing remarkable resilience and determination to keep progress alive.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The head of the UN Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep dismay over the āunconscionableā killing of children during an aid distribution in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As scores of people ā including medical staff and their families ā have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources.