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Daily Wrap 26 June 2024

We'll never abandon Gaza, pledges top UN aid official UN aid teams and partner organizations remain deeply committed to delivering lifesaving supplies to Gazans in need, despite the increasing dangers of working there, the Organization's top aid official said on Wednesday. Read more Humanitarian Aid Rights expert urges banks to stop financing Myanmar junta weapons trade Foreign banks are allegedly helping Myanmar's military junta acquire weapons and military supplies, facilitating a "campaign of violence and brutality" as the civil war there grinds on, according to an independent UN human rights expert on Wednesday. Read more Human Rights World News in Brief: ICC convicts Malian extremist of war crimes, Sudan crisis update, UN Police Summit preview The International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down a war crimes conviction on Wednesday against an Al Qaida-linked Malian former self-styled police chief who faced a range of charges, from torture to rape. Read more Law and Crime Prevention UN hears testimony from former child soldier on brutal reality of war The UN Security Council on Wednesday heard powerful and personal testimony from a former child soldier who recounted harrowing experiences of being abducted and forced to join an armed group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Read more Peace and Security 'Vicious cycle' of supply and demand fuelling cocaine use Lower costs of cocaine production have led to falling street prices and increased use of the controlled drug, says a flagship report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), released on Wednesday. Read more Health World Drug Day report highlights spike in drug use, increased trafficking The UN agency tackling crime and drug abuse (UNODC) released its annual World Drug Report on Wednesday warning that there are now nearly 300 million users globally, alongside an increase in trafficking. Read more Law and Crime Prevention

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