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Week in Review 2 November 2024

Middle East crisis: Live updates on 1 November from the UN and the region Non-stop displacement orders in Lebanon and bombings in Gaza continued as the postponed polio campaign in north is now set to resume on Saturday morning, with the latest updates from colleagues on the ground and interviews with Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, the UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix and more. UN News app users can follow here. Read more Peace and Security Israeli laws blocking UNRWA – devastating humanitarian impact for Palestinians? On Monday, Israel's parliament, the Knesset, voted in favour of legislation targeting the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which could effectively bring its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories to a halt. Here are five things to know about the bills and the potential consequences if they go into effect. Read more Peace and Security 'Catastrophic' hunger persists in multiple countries, warn food agencies "Catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity" bordering on starvation are expected to impact hundreds of thousands of people in coming months, driven principally by violence and conflict. Five hunger hotspots are of particular concern: Haiti, Mali, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), South Sudan and Sudan, UN agencies said on Thursday.  Read more Humanitarian Aid Stories from the UN Archive: What UNRWA built Education, health care, humanitarian and social services, camps for displaced people, including in times of armed conflict. These are just some of the services that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been providing Palestinians since the agency began operating in 1950. Read more Humanitarian Aid War in Ukraine: Live updates from the Security Council and the field The UN Security Council met in emergency session on Ukraine on Wednesday amid unconfirmed reports that troops from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) – more commonly known as North Korea – are deploying to fight alongside Russia. We followed the meeting as well as developments at UN Headquarters and on the ground. UN News app users can follow our updates here.  Read more Peace and Security Deadly floods in Spain highlight need to cut greenhouse gas emissions The record-breaking rainfall and deadly flash floods that hit Spain this week underscore why saving lives as climate change turbocharges extreme weather must be a top priority, the World Meteorological Office (WMO) said on Friday.  Read more Climate and Environment Russia: Torture now 'a tool for repression at home and aggression abroad' In a new 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. Read more Human Rights 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.  Read more Peace and Security 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. Read more Climate and Environment 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. Read more Peace and Security Greenhouse gases surged to new highs in 2023, warns UN weather agency New data released by the UN on Monday indicating that greenhouse gases have hit a record high shows once again that urgent action and not words is needed from the world's major polluters to protect us all from climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) insisted. Read more Climate and Environment Drought or flooding? No match for this climate-friendly bean There is no word for climate change in Wayunaikki, the language of the Wayúu Indigenous Peoples of South America, but since the crisis is battering their communities, they may just have found a key to resilience: a humble bean. Read more SDGs

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