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Week in Review 31 August 2024

Security Council debates Gaza as WHO announces polio pauses for lifesaving vaccination campaign The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on the continuing crisis in Gaza and the occupied West Bank on Thursday. Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced agreement had been reached with Israel to allow a mass polio vaccination campaign to get underway through a series of humanitarian pauses beginning on Sunday. UN News app users can follow coverage here. Read more Peace and Security UN upholds safety and efficacy of Gaza polio vaccine The United Nations has upheld the safety of the polio vaccine that will be administered to more than half a million Palestinian children during an inoculation campaign in Gaza.   Read more Health In battle for development 'you can count on us', Guterres tells Timor-Leste, marking 25 years of self-determination UN Secretary-General António Guterres told parliamentarians in Timor-Leste on Friday the world has much to learn from their inspirational struggle for self-rule, 25 years to the day since the historic referendum which paved the way for independence in 2002.  Read more UN Affairs Humanitarian pauses in Gaza pave way for polio vaccinations UN aid teams have reached a tentative agreement with parties involved in the war in Gaza for humanitarian pauses to allow 640,000 children to be vaccinated amid an outbreak of the virus, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Read more Humanitarian Aid Level of unprotected teenage sex 'worryingly high', WHO finds Condom use among sexually active adolescents has declined significantly since 2014, with rates of unprotected sex worryingly high, according to a new report from the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe.  Read more Health What is sea level rise and why does it matter to our future? The level of the sea globally is rising faster and higher than ever before, creating what the United Nations has described as an "urgent and escalating threat" to people around the world. Read more Climate and Environment West Bank crisis: UN chief calls for immediate halt to Israeli strikes As the crisis in the West Bank continues to escalate alongside the ongoing war in Gaza, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an "immediate cessation" of Israeli military operations in the occupied Palestinian territory. Read more Peace and Security Security Council: A sustainable future for Syria depends on ending the war Senior UN officials warned the Security Council on Wednesday that the world cannot afford to lose focus on Syria, as the humanitarian and political crisis continues to wreak havoc on the country more than a decade after civil war erupted. Read more Peace and Security Flooding from Sudan dam collapse worsens humanitarian crisis Around 20 villages in eastern Sudan have reportedly been "destroyed", with 70 impacted overall, after floodwaters burst through a major dam, according to UN humanitarians – adding to the suffering of communities already devastated by the ongoing war between rival militaries. Read more Peace and Security Guterres strongly condemns Burkina Faso terror attack; hundreds killed and injured UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the killing of around 200 people in the Burkinabe town of Barsalogho at the weekend, which left a further 140 injured.  Read more Peace and Security Africa: Refugees and displaced face heightened threat from mpox outbreak The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday that the mpox outbreak could have devastating effects on refugees and displaced families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other affected African countries if urgent support is not forthcoming. Read more Health Afghanistan: Condemnation for new Taliban 'virtue and vice' order targeting women A new morality law enacted by the Taliban in Afghanistan, cements policies that "completely erase" women's presence in public, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday, calling for it to be immediately revoked. Read more Human Rights China: UN rights office reiterates need to review national security framework China still has "many problematic laws and policies" regarding the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region two years after the UN human rights office, OHCHR, published a report on serious violations against the Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.  Read more Human Rights From Tonga, Guterres appeals for 'a surge in funds to deal with surging seas' UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a "global SOS" from Tonga in the Pacific on Tuesday, urging governments to step up climate action to "Save Our Seas" as two new reports revealed how rising sea levels are threatening the vulnerable region and beyond.  Read more Climate and Environment Refugee Paralympic Team set to shine in Paris as 'inspiration to us all' With only two days to go until the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, this year's Refugee Paralympic Team is gearing up to shine as an "inspiration to us all," says the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. Read more Migrants and Refugees The Geneva Conventions: 'Rules of war' saved me, says former child soldier Seventy-five years since the ratification of the Geneva Conventions, a former child soldier-turned foreign minister of Sierra Leone has urged greater international support for the key accords, highlighting their importance in rehabilitating him and tens of thousands of his fellow compatriots following the country's bitter civil war. Read more Peace and Security Tears and embraces as murderous 30-year family feud comes to an end in the Philippines A Filipino man has been describing the outpouring of emotion as two families on the island of Mindanao settled a 30-year-long feud that escalated from tit-for-tat killings into a dispute involving two factions of a former insurgency movement. Read more Peace and Security New York students rise to task of being 'PGA for a Day' "Welcome Mister President, Madame President," says the current President of the General Assembly, Dennis Francis. He ushers high schoolers Erik Ponomarev and Fariha Akter into his office before his bilateral meeting with the top diplomat who holds a different presidency for the month of September – the Security Council. Read more UN Affairs

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