Updates

This Emergency Health Situation Report provides regular updates on the evolving health situation, highlighting key developments, priority public health concerns, and the overall impact on health...

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The current escalation in Lebanon is unfolding in the context of the wider regional situation. On 2 March, rockets and drones were launched from southern Lebanon by Hezbollah toward northern Israel...

CIFRAS CLAVE 133K personas afectadas por lluvias e inundaciones en el sureste de Brasil $12.500 millones en pérdidas estimadas en Jamaica por el huracán Melissa 30K personas afectadas por lluvias,...

KEY FIGURES 133K people affected by rains and flooding across southeastern Brazil $12.5B estimated in losses in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa 30K people affected by ongoing rain, flooding and...

NAIROBI, Kenya – Around the world, legal systems are failing to deliver justice for women and girls who experience violence. And this is especially true when it comes to violence facilitated by...

UN Women has released its first Flash Update on the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon following the events of 2 March 2026. The update provides an overview of the rapidly evolving humanitarian...

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En cette Journée internationale des femmes, nous nous joignons à l’appel mondial en faveur de l’égalité, de la protection de la dignité humaine et de la sécurité et la justice pour toutes les femmes...

LONDON/GENEVA 6 March 2026 - “Children were already paying the highest price in wars worldwide, and the escalating conflict in the Middle East is only deepening the crisis, with hundreds killed,...

The Flagship Initiative was launched in 2023 as a three-year learning initiative to redesign humanitarian action from the ground up. In the four pilot countries of Colombia, Niger, the Philippines...

Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) frequently occur together and are considered coinfections, as TB often presents as an opportunistic infection in people living with HIV whose...

Regional Situation: Influenza activity in the Americas continued to stabilize this week compared to the previous epidemiological week (EW), following a sustained downward trend, with a regional...

Families in Lebanon are trapped in appalling conditions after being forced to leave their homes under bombardment and Israeli military evacuation orders, Islamic Relief says. Hundreds of thousands of...

Each morning in Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Salwa opens the door to a temporary learning space and gets to work. Displaced by the war, caring for her sick mother and her son Zain, who...

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Pramila Patten, Opens Exhibition “WHEN SILENCE BREAKS. ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT” Press...

With the outbreak of war between Iran and the United States and Israel on 28 February, Pakistan finds itself at the brink of an escalating regional conflict. Its recently signed mutual defense pact...

In Baidoa, South-West state, Somalia, Shaheen BiBi is the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) midwife activity manager at Bay Regional hospital. She describes the challenges that women in Somalia face in...

Amid the sharp escalation in Middle East violence, bombing has killed, injured and displaced people. MSF teams in Lebanon and Iran are adapting activities in response, while scaling up as possible...

Oxfam and partners are responding to the immediate needs of people who have been forcibly displaced by Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion of Lebanon, as the conflict across the region enters a...