The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced on Monday the arrival of 1.2 million doses of vital polio vaccines in Gaza, amid urgent calls for humanitarian pauses to reach hundreds of thousands of at-risk children.
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.
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.
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.
The rights of women in Poland are currently being violated due to restrictive abortion laws that have contributed to "several preventable deaths," according to independent rights experts on Monday.
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.
A new update from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reveals that millions of internally displaced families across Yemen are in critical need of more humanitarian assistance.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine has condemned deadly Russian missile and drone strikes that began overnight and reportedly targeted 15 regions of the country.
In flood-hit Myanmar, UN humanitarians said on Monday that aid teams have begun distributing emergency relief to families affected by monsoon rains in the Ayeyarwady Delta. Some 500,000 people in the key rice-growing region could be affected.
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