Unsafe water and sanitation contribute to the deaths of 1,000 children each day, with malnourished children under five years old particularly susceptible to waterborne diseases. This tragedy could be...
English Updates
Search
Refine the list with filters
Search helpList
Moldova + 1 more
Ukrainian refugees find life-saving care – and a support network – at Moldovan hospital
CHIȘINĂU, The Republic of Moldova – To Alina, the Gheorghe Paladi hospital in the Moldovan capital, Chișinău, has meant many things: Shelter. Survival. And now, solidarity and support. Last year,...
Resilience dividends: breaking the nexus poverty, inequality and climate risk
The ESCAP Asia-Pacific SDG Progress Report 2024 flagged the region’s regression on SDG 13, climate action. To reverse this trend, it is imperative that both mitigation and adaptation go hand in hand...
Lebanon + 2 more
Implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) during the period from 21 June to 20 October 2023 - Report of the Secretary-General (S/2024/222) [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
I. Introduction 1. The present report provides a comprehensive assessment of the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) since my previous report, issued on 16 November 2023...
Opposition Leader in Court in Central African Republic
Detention in Police Premises Notorious for Abuse Sends Chilling Message to Critics “They held him there to send a message to the rest of us: be careful, or else.” A human rights activist from the...
How Mongolia’s Herders Faced Climate Change [EN/MN]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS The three-phase Sustainable Livelihoods Project, implemented from 2002 to 2023, has supported the Mongolian government’s effort to modernize a mostly rural and underdeveloped...
WFP India Country Brief, February 2024
Highlights As part of the social behaviour change communication (SBCC) campaign on fortified rice in Bihar, a workshop was held in Patna on 16 February 2024. Eighty participants joined from media...
Vulnerability & Human Recovery Capital Indices: Based on reSCORE Ukraine 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Russia’s full-scale war of aggression in 2022 caused extensive damage, displacement and had a negative impact on human capital. In response, the reSCORE was used to create the...
Haiti Emergency Situation Report No. 8 (As of 18 March 2024)
This report is produced by OCHA Haiti in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It covers the humanitarian situation in Port-au-Prince following the violence that broke out on 29 February. The...
Financing constraints on the right to education – what is the role of debt?
In January 2024, Aljazeera reported that global debt – public and private combined – had reached a record USD 307 billion in 2023. For African governments debt is at its highest since 2001. Sovereign...
Another trial for Haiti’s children
As the humanitarian situation deteriorates, UNICEF continues to respond to families’ critical needs. But more support is urgently needed. Rachel Opota Port-au-Prince, March 11, 2023 - In the streets...
Russia/Ukraine: 10 years of occupation of Crimea – Russia is seeking to effect demographic change while suppressing Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar identities [EN/RU/TT/UK]
Russia/Ukraine: A decade of suppressing non-Russian identities in occupied Crimea Since the occupation of Crimea 10 years ago, Russia has sought to change the peninsula’s ethnic makeup and suppress...
Joint NGO letter calling for the renewal of the mandates of the SR and FFM on Iran [EN/FA]
TO: Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council Your Excellency, We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organisations, call on your country to support the renewal of...
Argentina: Floods - DREF Operation (MDRAR021)
Description of the Event Date of event 2024-03-03 What happened, where and when? In the early hours of 3 March the Capital Department of the Province of Corrientes experienced a deluge of intense and...
Illicit economies and the UN Security Council
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) researches the political economy of organized crime in many countries, including those on the United Nations Security Council’s...
Illicit economies in Afghanistan under the Taliban
More than two years after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, the country is once again high on the UN’s agenda. The levels of conflict-related violence may have...
Towards Zero Detention Facilities [EN/AR]
A Call to Action for the Release of Arbitrarily Detained and Forcibly Disappeared Civilians Despite the passage of time, hundreds of civilian detainees and forcibly disappeared individuals languish...
Nigeria + 40 more
Weekly Bulletin on Outbreaks and other Emergencies: Week 8: 19- 25 February 2024 (Data as reported by: 17:00; 25 February 2024)
Overview This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Measles in Mauritania Cholera in the United Republic of Tanzania...
World had warmest February on record
The monthly reports from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service and from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirm the extraordinary temperature trend...
DSWD disburses over Php870M in aid for disaster-hit families in Sarangani, Surigao del Sur, N. Samar
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has already completed its disaster response efforts by extending more than Php870 million worth of humanitarian aid to disaster-affected...