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Israel-Palestine: Protection of civilians ‘must be paramount’ in war Guterres tells Security Council

·October 24, 2023·18 min read

UN News is winding down our live coverage of today’s events in the Council. For full blow by blow coverage of the debate so far and the dozens of speakers to come on the Israel-Palestine crisis, you can visit our special UN Meetings Coverage Section, here. Indonesia Retno Marsudi, Minister...

Niger spiralling into ‘protection crisis’ following takeover: UNHCR

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·August 29, 2023·2 min read

UNHCR’s representative in Niger, Emmanuel Gignac, said that sanctions imposed on the country by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) following last month’s military takeover do not include any exemptions for humanitarian aid. Mr. Gignac observed that food and commodity prices, already climbing before this crisis, jumped after...

During visit to Greece, UN official calls for enhanced refugee protection

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·July 30, 2023·1 min read

During the visit, Ms. Triggs mentioned that one of the worst shipwrecks in the Mediterranean happened just over a month ago. Protecting refugee rights “The Pylos tragedy and the other devastating tragedies in the Mediterranean underscore the primacy of saving lives and protecting the rights of people forced to flee....

Empowering women through social protection: UN rights office

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·July 23, 2023·2 min read

Social protection provides a safety net for the vulnerable through policies and programmes that offer financial assistance, healthcare coverage and social insurance. “It helps prevent social exclusion and promotes social inclusion,” said Mahamane Cisse-Gouro, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division of human rights office OHCHR. Long-term...

Legal protection essential for people displaced by climate change: UN expert

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·June 27, 2023·1 min read

“The effects of climate change are becoming more severe, and the number of people displaced across international borders is rapidly increasing,” said Ian Fry, independent human rights expert on climate change, who took up the new post last year. “In 2020 alone, 30.7 million people were displaced from their homes...

Almost 3 million children ‘desperately need protection and support’ in Haiti

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·June 16, 2023·1 min read

“Being a child in Haiti today is harsher and more dangerous than it ever has been in living memory. The threats and hardships children face are simply unimaginable. They desperately need protection and support,” said UNICEF Haiti Representative Bruno Maes. Displacement and violence Children find themselves in the crossfire, or...

UN peacekeepers ‘a beacon of hope and protection’: Guterres

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·May 26, 2023·3 min read

He said the men and women that serve, from 125 countries, across 12 operations, were working to support security, stability and the rule of law. “They represent the beating heart of the United Nations’ commitment to peace”, said Secretary-General António Guterres. “By bringing peacekeepers together from around the world, peacekeeping has also become...

Sudan’s warring generals take ‘important first step’ on humanitarian protection

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·May 12, 2023·3 min read

Volker Perthes – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan and Head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the country (UNITAMS) – underscored that the rival military leaderships had agreed to respect international humanitarian and human rights law, and withdraw fighters from hospitals and medical facilities. Mr. Perthes...

UNESCO calls for more protection for artists under attack

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·May 4, 2023·1 min read

Emergencies tend to exacerbate the vulnerabilities people who work in the arts already experience, as they face multiple threats such as online and offline harassment, loss of income, legal prosecution, violence, censorship, and silencing. Creatives also often lack minimal safety nets due to their precarious legal status, according to the...

WHO mission to Syria quake zone boosts protection from disease outbreaks

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·April 23, 2023·1 min read

“The focus of the mission was to enhance the capacity of the early warning alert and response network (EWARN) and ensure rapid detection, verification and response to communicable diseases alerts and outbreaks”, the WHO office for the Eastern Mediterranean said in a statement issued on Thursday. They identified areas in preparedness and...

Greater protection needed for Palestinians amid rising violence, annexation threat

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·March 31, 2023·2 min read

“The wave of deadly violence sweeping through the occupied West Bank since the beginning of this year is the inexorable consequence of an acquisitive and repressive occupation with no end in sight, and the culture of lawlessness and impunity Israel has nurtured and enjoyed,” UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said...

Two-thirds of Yemenis need humanitarian support and protection

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·January 26, 2023·3 min read

The UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA is calling for $4.3 billion to reach the 17.3 million most vulnerable people in need, whose lives have been turned upside down because of protracted war, displacement and economic collapse, compounded by recurrent natural disasters. Yemen’s civil war began in 2014 when Houthi rebels...