
News in Brief 8 January 2024
Gaza latest: Dire shortages of healthcare continueRights experts demand accountability for Israeli victims of sexual…

Gaza latest: Dire shortages of healthcare continueRights experts demand accountability for Israeli victims of sexual…

Gaza latest: nearly 600 healthcare attacks since start of war, says WHOMigration agency launches $69…

Houthi rebel attacks on ships using the Red Sea trade route off the coast of…

Gaza crisis deepens as UN aid convoys face delays and obstacles UN rights chief Türk shocked…

Gaza war: ‘Intense ground battles’ reported, hospital hit kills fiveUN chief appeals for ‘maximum restraint’…
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Everyone is hungry in Gaza now: UN humanitariansUkraine communities hit by surge in attacks from…

The enormous potential of GPT4 caught the popular imagination in 2023, with its ability to…

Earlier in December, the UN Department of Global Communications hosted Knowledge, History and Power, an…

Humanitarian workers visiting the frontline in Ukraine are showing solidarity with the people affected by…

UN humanitarians carried out an emergency fact-finding mission to central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital on Christmas…

Thailand has been lauded for the progressive legislation it has passed into law which ensures…

Gaza crisis: Starvation must not be allowed to happen, says UN rights chief 46.7 million…

Injured patients ‘waiting to die’ in northern Gaza Sudan: Up to 300,000 displaced by latest…

Barely a drop of safe water to drink in Gaza, UN aid agency warns Ukraine:…

Since the military incursion into Gaza, which followed deadly attacks by Hamas on Israel on…

Cemeteries in Gaza are being raided for wood as people affected by the ongoing bombardments…

‘Ten weeks of hell’ for children in Gaza Ukraine: civilian death toll passes 10,000 amid…

Gaza hospital destroyed, WHO chief reiterates ceasefire call Migrants’ Day: UN chief calls for rights-based…

In an exclusive interview with UN News, Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, underlined…

Supporting refugees is all of humanity’s ‘obligation’: UN chief Afghanistan: instead of justice, women survivors…

Gaza flooding latest disaster to hit desperate Palestinians Countries must stop e-cigarette boom among youth:…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is poised for elections on 20 December, when…

Gaza ceasefire ‘in everybody’s interest’: UN humanitarian coordinator Fossil fuel phaseout ‘inevitable’: UN chief on…

Sixteen year-olds in Gaza are now in the middle of the fourth war of their…

UN peacekeeping operations are facing more challenging political and security conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa and…

Vanessa Frazier, Malta’s Permanent Representative to the UN, has told UN News that the Security…

‘Humanitarian disaster zone’: Gaza hospital capacity decimated – WHO Invest in primary healthcare, save lives:…

Gaza humanitarian crisis deepens as fighting rages on across the Strip COP28: UN chief urges…

Clear and unequivocal language on the phasing out of fossil fuels is the only way…

As the focus at COP28 turns to food and agriculture, the spotlight is on smallholder…

Taking 5 per cent of global military expenditures and directing it towards education and the…

The war has taken a huge toll on Gaza, leaving “everybody” grieving, said the Director…

Gaza humanitarian disaster announces “breakdown” of society Haiti humanitarian crisis deepens as country awaits support…

With global temperatures hitting record highs, and extreme weather events affecting people around the globe,…

Gaza fighting further compromises aid amid near ‘apocalyptic’ conditions UN warns of humanitarian emergency as…

Türk calls for independent investigations into alleged sexual attacks during Hamas massacre Myanmar violence taking an…

WFP forced to pause food aid distribution across northern Yemen Chaotic conditions for civilians in…

Being denied access to sites where some of the most horrific crimes and human rights…

Gaza: Aid access to north entirely blocked amid escalating war in south COP28: Call to…

Saying nowhere is safe in Gaza is not a cliché, according to UNICEF’s James Elder,…
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Gaza: Fighting resumes as pause ends Guterres calls for real climate leadership at COP28 ‘Let…

COP28: UN chief warns that world is on course for ‘climate collapse’ Israel-Palestine crisis: New…

2023 is on track to be the hottest year ever and the last 10 years…

When it comes to mitigating loss and damage caused by climate change, the global response…

Israel-Palestine crisis: Gaza City a ‘ghost town’, reports UN aid agency Cost of eating healthily…

Despite intense national efforts geared towards eliminating AIDS as a public health threat by 2030,…

Just one book can turn a displaced child’s life around and help unite the world,…

UN rights office appalled by #BurkinaFaso attack Support grassroots communities fighting AIDS Olympian Mo Farah…
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A child in hospital who’s lost his mother and sisters but doesn’t know they’re dead;…

Gaza: Vital aid reaches shattered north as halt to fighting enters fourth day WHO chief…