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Gaza: UN agencies call for aid ‘surge’ as Israeli distribution plan begins

·May 27, 2025·3 min read

After nearly three months of complete blockade by Israel, a “vastly insufficient” amount of aid was finally allowed into the war-ravaged enclave in the last week, insisted Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN aid coordination office, OCHA. “We have not stopped operating,” he said, referring to staff still inside Gaza,...

Trust collapsing as job fears surge worldwide, warns UN

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·April 25, 2025·3 min read

According to the World Social Report 2025 launched on Thursday, the sobering sentiment indicates a widespread lack of confidence in the future. Despite people living longer, being better educated and more connected than ever before, many believe that life today is worse than it was 50 years ago. Close to...

Climate crisis driving surge in gender-based violence, UN report finds

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·April 22, 2025·4 min read

That is the warning from a new report by the UN Spotlight Initiative, which finds that climate change is intensifying the social and economic stresses that are fuelling increased levels of violence against women and girls. The report finds that extreme weather, displacement, food insecurity, and economic instability are key factors increasing...

UN agency warns of ‘surge’ in AIDS deaths without US funding

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·March 25, 2025·3 min read

“We will see a …real surge in this disease – [we] will see it come back, and we see people dying the way we saw them in the 90s and in 2000s,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima who noted a “tenfold increase” from the 600,000 AIDS-related deaths recorded globally...

Haiti: Massive surge in child armed group recruitment, warns UNICEF

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·March 2, 2025·3 min read

UNICEF’s representative in Haiti, Geetanjali Narayan, told journalists that just last month, armed groups destroyed 47 schools in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, adding to the 284 schools destroyed in 2024. “The relentless attacks on education are accelerating, leaving hundreds of thousands of children without a place to learn,” she said. Speaking...

UN rights office warns of ‘dangerous tipping point’ as abuses surge in Sudan

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·February 18, 2025·3 min read

In a new report, UN investigators detailed multiple attacks on civilians, healthcare facilities, markets, and schools, as well as ethnically motivated summary executions. “The continued and deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects, as well as summary executions, sexual violence and other violations and abuses, underscore the utter failure by...

Aid surge into Gaza continues, UN teams prioritize immediate needs

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·February 13, 2025·4 min read

Amid reports that a return to full-scale war at the weekend may have been averted with the announcement by Hamas that it would comply with the agreed release of Israeli hostages, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that aid teams were “seizing every opportunity” to...

World News in Brief: Gaza aid surge, El Fasher update, aid to Somalia, justice in Belarus

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·January 22, 2025·4 min read

Aid coordination office OCHA said the UN and our partners are dispatching supplies to designated emergency shelters and distribution centres across the Strip. “We are distributing food parcels and flour and working to re-open bakeries,” said UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq. More than 50,000 food parcels On Monday and Tuesday,...

UN surge teams mobilise as Vanuatu hit by second earthquake

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·December 22, 2024·2 min read

A state of emergency remains in effect across the island nation, and a seven-day dusk-to-dawn curfew in parts of Port Vila was scheduled to end on 24 December. Access road to the seaport is also reportedly blocked. The second earthquake heightened concerns, with further updates on its impact, including on...

Afghanistan: Surge in synthetic drugs could threaten public health

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·November 29, 2024·1 min read

The Mapping of Facilities for Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Afghanistan report, conducted in collaboration with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), is the first comprehensive survey of the country’s treatment capacity. While services are operational in 32 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, systemic barriers – especially for women – severely...

First famine, now cholera and dengue fever surge hits war-torn Sudan

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·November 4, 2024·2 min read

In an alert from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, it reported more than 28,000 cases of cholera and 836 deaths in 11 states between 22 July and 28 October. The actual number of people infected with the disease may be higher owing to under-reporting, said OCHA; the UN agency also...

Hunger and cholera crises escalate in South Sudan, as needs surge

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·November 1, 2024·3 min read

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have raised the alarm over worsening hunger, malnutrition, and disease outbreaks in the world’s youngest nation. WFP warned that the food situation in South Sudan has reached critical levels, with more than half of the...