Over and above the difficulty of actually getting into Gaza, aid teams now face the crushing realization that with a shortage of fuel and dwindling supplies, there is a limit to what they can do to help all those in need, UN aid worker Louise Wateridge told UN News on Friday.
Resources are desperately needed to ramp up aid supplies for Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, which is staring at an "unprecedented humanitarian crisis", according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Any relationship that any country has with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), including Russia, "must entirely abide" by Security Council sanctions, Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs said on Friday, as she briefed ambassadors.
The health system in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is "on the brink" and "crippled by escalating violence" according to the UN's Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) representative in the Caribbean island nation, Dr. Oscar Barreneche.
On Friday, at the UN Human Rights Council's (OHCHR) first panel for the annual full-day discussion on women's rights, The UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday told a Human Rights Council panel that it's time to eliminate laws and practices that contribute to "economic violence" against women and girls.
With just six years remaining to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global progress is alarmingly insufficient, with a mere 17 per cent of the targets currently on track, according to a new UN report released on Friday.
