Month: September 2025

From the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, called for increased international support to address the humanitarian crisis sweeping Lebanon. He emphasized that assisting those affected by the escalation is an urgent moral imperative. High...

Louis Wootridge from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated that, so far, 187,000 children have been vaccinated, with teams moving from tent to tent and shelter to shelter. The UNRWA spokesperson added that these...

More than 100 countries — including China, India, Brazil, and South Africa — face significant obstacles that could hinder their efforts to transition to high-income status in the coming decades, according to a new World Bank study that provides the...

New York, 20 November 2023 – The escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan over the past seven months has reached a dire stage in Darfur, where at least 5 million children face severe deprivation of their rights and protection risks due...

New York, 13 June 2024 — “Today marks a sad and sobering anniversary: 1,000 days since the decision to ban girls from attending secondary schools in Afghanistan. 1,000 days out of school means three billion hours of lost learning. This...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has intensified its emergency operations in Yemen to support families affected by heavy rains and catastrophic floods that swept across large areas of the country between late June and early August. These floods have...

Two UN officials have warned that the humanitarian situation in Sudan “still represents an absolute disaster” and that conditions across the country are “horrific and worsening day by day.” This came during a session held today, Tuesday, by the UN...