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Daily Wrap 21 January 2025

UN regrets US exit from global cooperation on health, climate change agreement UN agencies responded on Tuesday to President Trump's executive orders ending US membership of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement, highlighting the massive potential negative impact on public health and efforts to curb global warming. Read more Humanitarian Aid What is the World Health Organization and why does it matter? When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative. Doctors, scientists, presidents and prime ministers urgently convened the International Sanitary Conference in Paris in 1851, a precursor to what is now the largest of its kind: the World Health Organization, known as WHO. Read more Health World News in Brief: Hostilities in northeast Syria, response plan in Mali, Uyghur deportations in Thailand The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued an alert on Tuesday over intensifying hostilities in the northeast in recent days.  Read more Humanitarian Aid Ceasefire in Gaza brings hope, but West Bank faces escalating violence The crisis in Gaza continues to remain acute, with UN humanitarians reporting critical shortages of water, food and efforts to deliver vital aid to the war-torn region. Meanwhile, escalating violence in the West Bank has further deepened concerns over civilian safety and access to assistance. Read more Peace and Security Security Council debates growing terrorism threat in Africa Africa tragically remains the epicentre of global terrorism, and more action is required to implement international commitments to combat this scourge, the UN Deputy Secretary-General told the Security Council on Tuesday.  Read more Peace and Security Climate emergency: 2025 declared international year of glaciers As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation (IYGP). Read more Climate and Environment UN rights expert calls for end to Russia's crackdown on lawyers A UN independent human rights expert on Tuesday called for an end to Russia's severe crackdown on the legal profession, condemning the prison sentences handed down to three lawyers last week who defended the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Read more Human Rights Aid surging into Gaza 'at scale' but massive needs remain: OCHA, WHO Aid is entering Gaza "at scale" in line with the ceasefire agreement that has seen Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners released and families reunited, but massive needs remain across the devastated enclave, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. Read more Humanitarian Aid

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