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Daily Wrap 25 February 2025

'Political courage' needed to end war in the Middle East: Top UN envoy A sustainable resolution to the war in Gaza and the broader Israel-Palestine conflict relies on political courage from all sides, the top UN official for the Middle East Peace Process said on Tuesday. Read more Peace and Security Success for polio campaign in Gaza while West Bank tensions continue UN humanitarians reported on Tuesday that aid workers in Gaza supporting local health authorities have now managed to vaccinate nearly 550,000 children under 10 – nearly all those it aimed to reach. Read more Humanitarian Aid Haiti: Gang violence displaces 6,000 people in one month More than 6,000 people in Haiti have been forced from their homes by gang violence in almost a month, hampering aid efforts by humanitarian agencies, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. Read more Peace and Security World News in Brief: Conflict in DR Congo, Europe's 'cradle to cane' crisis, millions may go hungry in Chad Ongoing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and Congolese troops has claimed more lives and forced even more families from their homes.  Read more Peace and Security Farmers must be at the heart of biodiversity action "Without the farmers, it is only political policy without implementation" – that was the stark message delivered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Director-General on Tuesday to delegates attending the latest round of UN biodiversity talks in Rome.  Read more Climate and Environment WHO marks 20 years of its lifesaving tobacco control treaty A UN treaty that addresses the global tobacco epidemic has saved millions of lives over the past two decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.  Read more Health Ukraine: Post-war reconstruction set to cost $524 billion The total cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine is estimated at $524 billion (€506 billion) over the next decade, according to a new study published on Tuesday.  Read more Economic Development UN rights chief decries substantial rise in death penalty executions International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN human rights chief Volker Türk decried a substantial increase in global executions in the last two years.  Read more Human Rights

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