News Monitor
With the cyclone impacting millions and leaving children most vulnerable, UNICEF prioritizes children's well-being in relief efforts and urges funding for vulnerable populations.
An estimated 8.4 million people live in the path of the cyclone, including about 3.6 million children. In the lead-up to the storm, at least 800,000 people were evacuated into cyclone shelters.
About 6.5 million children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger as Afghanistan feels the impacts of floods, long-term effects of drought and the return of Afghans from Pakistan and Iran.
The resolution urges all States to immediately undertake comprehensive, impartial investigations into violations perpetrated against UN and humanitarian personnel.
Displacing 95,000 people and damaging 60,000 hectares of cropland, the floods also coincide with disease outbreaks. Of special concern is cholera in hostility-ridden parts of Northern Amhara Region.
The IDF must cease all attacks on or in the vicinity of hospitals and must ensure their protected status is respected and that hospitals are able to receive essential medical equipment and medicine.
Goma has gradually been surrounded by several front-lines, with between 600,000 and one million people displaced people being crammed alongside the city’s two million residents, says MSF.
“Once again, the world seems to be failing a desperate people in their hour of peril while a hate-driven unnatural disaster unfolds in real time in Myanmar’s Rakhine State,” said Tom Andrews.
Poverty in Lebanon has more than tripled over the past decade, reaching 44 per cent of the total population, according to a new World Bank report released today.
About 26 million children will be locked out of class for a week in ongoing heat wave, as Pakistan becomes the latest country to shut down education due to climate extremes, Save the Children said.
Greater international assistance is urgently needed to equip and assist clearance personnel to systematically survey and clear mines and explosive remnants of war from Yemen.
WHO finds rising temperatures and changing weather patterns are altering disease spread, potentially reversing health progress. Urgent action needed to protect vulnerable communities.
Six out of 10 hospitals in Haiti are barely operational as recent escalating violence in Port-Au-Prince has continued to deprive children of critical health supplies and medicine, UNICEF warned.
Report lists 2,562 incidents of violence against or obstruction of healthcare in conflicts in 2023 - a 25% increase from 2022 or 500 more attacks than documented in 2022, and the highest ever.
Lack of clean water and sanitation has increased acute watery diarrhea among under-fives, while other water-borne diseases such as Hepatitis are proliferating among those who cannot get clean water.
Devastating floods in north-eastern and north-western regions of Afghanistan over the past two weeks, hitting more than 80,000 people, are likely to worsen already critical levels of food insecurity.