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Daily Wrap 29 August 2024
Many Gazans are living in temporary shelters due to the conflict.
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.

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Peace and Security
Condom use among sexually active adolescents in Europe is on the decline.
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. 

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Health
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and  Xanana Gusmao, Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, answer questions from the media in Dili.
Guterres highlights Timor-Leste's 'growing international influence'

The UN Secretary-General continued his historic visit to Timor-Leste on Thursday, emphasising the positive role the country can play on the regional stage to help resolve the crisis in war-wracked Myanmar.

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Economic Development
Flood-affected residents construct makeshift bamboo rafts to navigate submerged streets in Feni district, southeast Bangladesh.
Floods, landslides wreak havoc across South Asia

Over 18 million people in Bangladesh have been affected by severe monsoon conditions, with more than 1.2 million families trapped as flash floods submerge vast areas of the country's east and southeast.

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Humanitarian Aid
Aid workers assess the damage following a military raid on a refugee camp in Jenin. (file, July 2023)
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.

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Peace and Security
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