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29 October 2024

UNRWA and partners completed the second round of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, but access to the north remains blocked for the final phase.

Middle East crisis: Live updates on UNRWA, Gaza and more

Our live coverage ranged from the Security Council and UN Headquarters to dispatches from across the Middle East as tensions escalated and the war on Gaza and Lebanon continued in the shadows of a new Israeli ban on UNRWA, the agency serving nearly six million Palestine refugees in the region. UN News app users can follow here.

Peace and Security

Mariana Katzarova, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, in the UN News studio.

Russia: Torture now 'a tool for repression at home and aggression abroad'

In a new report report launched on Tuesday the UN independent expert on human rights in Russia exposes alarming patterns of torture used as a State-sanctioned tool of repression to stifle dissent and intimidate communities abroad.

Human Rights

A mother carries her baby in Port Sudan, on the Sudanese coast.

Sudan's 'living nightmare' continues as 11 million flee war, mass killings

Escalating violence and new atrocities in Sudan have pushed the humanitarian crisis to unprecedented levels, with displacement now exceeding 11 million people amid reports of mass killings and systematic-sexual violence across multiple regions, UN officials said on Tuesday.

Peace and Security

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the COP16 biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia.

At COP16, Guterres urges world to 'choose wisely…make peace with nature'

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called for decisive action to restore harmony with nature, warning that environmental crises are pushing humanity toward tipping points that threaten ecosystems, livelihoods and global stability.

Climate and Environment

A hummingbird hovers over an orange flower.

Balancing biodiversity at global UN summit in Colombia

Countries from around the world are meeting in the Colombian city of Cali, to discuss how best to protect biological diversity and develop a lasting blueprint that will allow humankind to live in harmony with nature.

Climate and Environment

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the largest aid aid agency in the Gaza Strip where it provides emergency and other assistance to vulnerable Palestinians.

UNRWA cannot be replaced, say UN top officials in response to Knesset ban

Top UN officials continued to line up on Tuesday to defend the irreplaceable role of the global body's agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, insisting that if implemented, the Israeli parliament's decision to ban it would only deepen suffering in Gaza.

Peace and Security