News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 36 from 95)
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Credible reports indicate widespread violations and abuses, including summary executions and arbitrary killings, kidnappings, destruction of private property and looting of homes.
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Major cuts to aid budgets have already left people fleeing wars in Sudan and beyond without the assistance and protection they need, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
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Amid violent clashes in southern Syriaâs Suweida governorate, a picture of grave human rights abuses and rising humanitarian needs is emerging by the hour, the UN said on Friday.
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The UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA is stressing the need to scale up support for displaced families in Haiti amid ongoing insecurity and violence.
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The continued onslaught and mass deprivation of people in the Gaza Strip is becoming normalised, the UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Friday.
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Report highlights a deadly confluence of factors pummeling millions of refugees and IDPs: rising displacement, shrinking funding and political apathy. Women and children are, as ever, the hardest hit.
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âIt affects brain development. Malnutrition weakens the immune system, making children more susceptible to communicable diseases. It is also linked to chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension."
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As years of war in Ukraine have left millions with unreliable heating and limited means to pay rising utility costs, the UN and humanitarian partners launched a $277 million appeal this Thursday to support the most vulnerable people during the coming winter.
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UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres has strongly condemned the Israeli strike on Thursday that hit the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip.
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Pakistanâs monsoon emergency deepened on Thursday as authorities declared disaster zones across parts of eastern Punjab province after lethal cloudbursts and flash floods killed dozens in a single day.
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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.
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Sudan's ongoing civil war has created the worldâs largest and fastest-growing displacement, yet this crisis has been largely overshadowed by conflicts and political tensions elsewhere.
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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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New evacuation orders in Gaza issued by the Israeli military have uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians, amid ongoing bombardment, aid agencies have warned.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.