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Virtual Risk, Tangible Harm: The Humanitarian Implications of Cyber Threats
KEY MESSAGES Cyber threats are among the most critical security issues of our time. The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted an already rapid pace of digitalization towards a true global digital...
High-level Panel: Drowning While Running: Addressing the Exponential Rise in Humanitarian Needs
CONCEPT NOTE – HIGH-LEVEL PANEL Thursday, 8 December 2022 **OVERVIEW: ** The international humanitarian system faces an exponential rise in humanitarian needs, with the last decade seeing a...
Interactive Session: Adapting Humanitarian Action to the Growing Climate Emergency
CONCEPT NOTE Wednesday, 7 December 2022 The climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis. Alarming evidence from the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
Global Humanitarian Policy Forum 2022: Global Crises, Local Solutions; Reducing Needs and Vulnerability Sustainably (7-8 December 2022)
CONCEPT NOTE On 7-8 December 2022, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) will convene the eleventh annual Global Humanitarian Policy Forum (GHPF). In the...
The Humanitarian Implications of Cyber Threats
Friday, December 10, 2021 Overview: Harmful cyber operations (‘cyber-attacks’) have become a critical security threat. As the global digital transformation forges ahead, so too do the risks...
No Return to Normal: Climate Change and the Threat of a Global Humanitarian Crisis
Friday, December 10, 2021 Overview: The climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis. It is not a distant problem for 2030 or 2050. It is unfolding right NOW on the humanitarian frontlines worldwide and...
From Checkpoints to High Politics: Humanitarian Access Negotiations in Action
Thursday, December 9, 2021 Overview: From Syria to Afghanistan and elsewhere, the “politics of humanitarian access” have become a feature of today’s armed conflicts and humanitarian emergencies...
Sparks on the Horizon: COVID-19 and Fragility
Thursday, 9 December 2021 Overview: In 2021, countries with humanitarian crises have suffered far more COVID-19 infections and deaths than in 2020. The lack of vaccine availability, the rapid spread...
High-level Opening Panel: Risks, Threats and Challenges: The Growing Global Demand for Humanitarian Action
Thursday, December 9, 2021 **Overview: ** At the close of a year marked by great uncertainty and increasing divergence around socioeconomic recovery following the unprecedented disruptions worldwide...
Global Humanitarian Policy Forum 2021: Where to from Here? Humanitarian Action Between Rising Needs And Distant Solutions (9-10 December 2021)
2021 Global Humanitarian Policy Forum On 9-10 December 2021, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, will...
Global Humanitarian Policy Forum 2020: A case for transformation? The longer-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic - Outcome Paper
Introduction 2020 was a year unlike any other. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the most severe global crisis since World War II, upending the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of people. 1...
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Syrian refugee carries on family soap-making legacy to combat COVID-19 spread in Lebanon
With training from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and support from the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, Syrian refugee Midia Said Sido makes soap to help avert the spread of COVID-19. In her kitchen...
Las mayores organizaciones juveniles del mundo, con más de 250 millones de miembros, y la OMS ponen en marcha una movilización mundial para responder a la conmoción causada por la COVID-19 en los jóvenes
La financiación de programas comunitarios, la participación de la juventud en las soluciones para luchar contra la COVID-19 y la convocatoria de la Cumbre Mundial de la Juventud son los principales...
Les plus grandes organisations de jeunes au monde – qui réunissent 250 millions de membres – et l’OMS lancent une mobilisation mondiale pour réagir face aux incidences néfastes de la COVID-19 sur les jeunes
Le financement de programmes exécutés à l’échelon local, la participation des jeunes à la recherche de solutions pour faire face à la COVID-19 et l’organisation d’un Sommet mondial de la jeunesse...
World’s largest youth organizations, representing 250 million members, and WHO launch global mobilization to respond to disruptive impacts of COVID-19 on young people
Funding for community programmes, engaging youth in solutions to address COVID-19, and convening Global Youth Summit are key features of this new mobilization A new ground-breaking global youth...
Global Humanitarian Policy Forum 2020: A case for transformation? The longer-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic (9-10 December 2020)
Wednesday, 9 December 2020: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST Thursday, 10 December 2020: 9:15 AM – 12:30 PM EST VIRTUAL EVENT LINK BIT.LY/GHPF2020 On 9-10 December 2020, please join us for the ninth Global...
L’OMS, la Fondation pour les Nations Unies et la société de production Illumination s’associent pour diffuser des messages sanitaires
L’annonce de service public met en scène Gru, le personnage principal de Moi, moche et méchant, et les Minions, avec la voix de Steve Carell dans la version anglaise. L’Organisation mondiale de la...
The World Health Organization, UN Foundation and Illumination partner on health messages
The Public Service Announcement Features Illumination's Globally Beloved Gru and the Minions Characters and is Voiced by Steve Carrell May 27, 2020 – (Geneva, Switzerland) –The World Health...
OPEN LETTER: Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19
Humanity today, in all its fragility, is searching for an effective and safe vaccine against COVID-19. It is our best hope of putting a stop to this painful global pandemic. We are calling on Health...